Lukkhe
Hindi
A young sportsman infiltrates the wild and dangerous world of Punjab's rap music to investigate a drug syndicate, only to find himself torn between love, family, guilt and brotherhood.
| Cast: | Raashii Khanna, Palak Tiwari, Lakshvir Saran, Shivankit Singh Parihar, Nakul Roshan Sandev, Kritika Bhardwaj, Yograj Singh, Ayesha Raza Mishra, |
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| Director: | Himank Gaur |
All Guild Reviews of "Lukkhe"
The Makers Wrestle With How Much Fun They’re Allowed to Have, Lean Too Heavily on Lengthy Backstories, and Never Let Stakes Truly Rise.
A Middling Musical Drama About Deranged Rappers and Dull Druglords
Starring King and Lakshvir Saran, Lukkhe (“Slackers”) starts off promisingly before collapsing into a series of Punjab-set cliches
A rising hockey star, Lucky, is admitted to rehab after a tragic accident. He kicks his drug habit, unpacks his trauma and falls for his recovery buddy, Sanober. After their breezy stint, the boy meets the girl’s volatile “family”: a hotshot Punjabi rapper named MC Badnaam, his girlfriend Paddy, and bestie Jazzy. In a heartbeat, a lovelorn Lucky is blackmailed and recruited as an informant by a narcotics officer named Gurbani; she has been working for years to bust an undercover drug ring led by none other than MC Badnaam. Now Lucky is her trump-card. But it’s not so simple. Lucky is morally conflicted as the mole; he is integrated into Badnaam’s side hustle but feels too hard for Sanober, even as a rival rapper and villain emerges as a ghost from their past. Things get knotty and violent. Cue climax at a music concert. Where else can things end?
Some Highs in an Overly Ambitious Show About Drugs, Rap Music and Crime
Set against the restless, neon-tinged underbelly of Chandigarh and soundtracked to Punjabi rap, Lukkhe wants to be many things at once. The Prime Video show created by Agrim Joshi and Debojit Das Purkayastha is a rap saga, a crime thriller, an addiction drama and a story about broken young people trying to regain their footing. Intoxication, violence and tragedy are embedded in this world. Remorse, revenge and redemption follow.
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