🎬 1. Overview
Title: Lucky Baskhar (stylised LUCKY BASKHA₹)
Language: Telugu (original) – dubbed in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada
Genre: Period crime drama, mystery-thriller
Director/Writer: Venky Atluri
Cast: Dulquer Salmaan (Baskhar Kumar), Meenakshi Chaudhary (Sumathi), with strong supporting actors including Ramki, Tinnu Anand, P. Sai Kumar, Sachin Khedekar
Music: G. V. Prakash Kumar
Runtime: Approximately 151 min (~2h30m)
Budget & Box Office: ₹100 crore budget; grossed ~₹111.9 crore, becoming Dulquer’s most successful film to date
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2. Plot Sketch
a. Setting & Introduction
Set in Bombay during the late 1980s–early 1990s, Lucky Baskhar begins as the modest life of Baskhar Kumar, a bank cashier — hardworking, honest, yet perpetually stretched by debts and his inability to upgrade his family’s life . Beset by humiliation and financial pressure, Baskhar grows restless with his low-income reality.
b. Inciting Crisis & Descent
When promotion and praise elude him, Baskhar is lured into off‑books banking operations with a stock-broker, Harsha Mehra. First, he routes small sums, pocketing commissions. Then, he morphs into a mastermind of stock-fraud and money-laundering—embezzling vast sums through fake Bank Receipts .
c. Rise & Corners
As Baskhar’s wealth skyrockets, the film’s tempo intensifies. But with fame come risks—legal investigations by agencies, pressures from the underworld’s big players, and fissures at home. His wife, Sumathi (Meenakshi), stands strong but begins questioning the cost of their quick ascent .
d. Climax & Unraveling
Baskhar’s empire faces scrutiny. The narrative unfolds with courtroom-style tension, betrayals, and moral reckonings. Without revealing spoilers, the resolution forces Baskhar to confront:
Personal Ethics: Has he gone too far for money?
Legal Consequence: Will he be punished?
Family Fallout: Can redemption restore domestic harmony?