Luck by Chance (2009)
Overview
Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $2,300,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $3,000,000.00 |
| Original Language | hi |
| Popularity | 6.428 |
Directed By
Zoya Akhtar
Crew
Zoya Akhtar
Nandini Shrikent
Vaibhavi Merchant
Bakul Matiyani
Lakshmipriya Devi
Javed Akhtar
Mahesh Ramanathan
Hetal Dedhia
Anuj Mathur
Sanjay Chaturvedi
Anuradha Parikh
Balakrishna P Subaiah
Zoya Akhtar
Bakul Sharma
Abheet Gidwani
Shankar Mahadevan
Puneet Khanna
Loy Mendonsa
Jayesh Chavan
Farhan Akhtar
Manik Batra
Zoya Akhtar
Shipra Donde
Setu Desai
Ehsaan Noorani
Hilary Niederer
Anand Subaya
Devrishi Chatterjee
Devrath Sagar
Miriam Joseph
Hanuman Patel
Ritesh Sidhwani
Baylon Fonseca
Rajeev Soorti
Arjun Bhasin
Rajesh Sawhney
Abhinav Sah
Anup Kumar
Niraj Pamwani
Sarang Deshpande
Megha Narkar
Avan Contractor
Paul Byrne
Abid T.P.
Suchita Suryamurty
Karan Kapadia
Zoya Akhtar
Prashant Dcruz
Carlos Catalán
TOP CAST
Farhan Akhtar
Vikram Jaisingh
Konkona Sen Sharma
Sona Mishra
Dimple Kapadia
Neena Walia
Rishi Kapoor
Rommy Rolly
Juhi Chawla Mehta
Minty Rolly
Hrithik Roshan
Zaffar Khan
Isha Sharvani
Nikki Walia
Sanjay Kapoor
Ranjit Rolly
Arjun Mathur
Abhimanyu Gupta
Saurabh Shukla
Nand Kishore
Alyy Khan
Chaudhary
Boman Irani
Dinyar Sabri
Mohsin Akhtar
Kunal
Pankaj Kalra
Raju
Siddharth Makkar
Sameer
Arvind Vaidya
Panditji
Neelu Kohli
Mohini
Veena Mehta
Mrs. Verma
Aamir Khan
Self
Rajkumar Hirani
Self
Manish Malhotra
Self
Anurag Kashyap
Deepak
Akshaye Khanna
Self
Javed Akhtar
Self
Shabana Azmi
Self
Rani Mukerji
Self
Dia Mirza
Self
Abhishek Bachchan
Self
John Abraham
Self
Ranbir Kapoor
Self
Vivek Oberoi
Self
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Self
Karan Johar
Self
Shah Rukh Khan
Self
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