45
Ranked #45 of 100
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
ओए लकी! लकी ओए! · 2008
A Delhi serial burglar steals for the pleasure of proving he can, based on the real 'super-thief' Devinder Singh.
- Director
- Dibakar Banerjee
- Year
- 2008
- Genre
- Comedy · Crime
- Cast
- Abhay Deol, Paresh Rawal, Neetu Chandra
Why it's at number 45
The sharpest film ever made about Indian class aspiration, disguised as a caper.
A Delhi serial burglar steals for the pleasure of proving he can, based on the real 'super-thief' Devinder Singh.
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Dibakar Banerjee — also responsible for Khosla Ka Ghosla, Shanghai, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!.
- Released in 2008, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Crime.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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