Updated On: 24 October, 2025 09:45 AM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Konkona Sensharma says she was blown away by the script of Zoya Akhtar’s Luck By Chance. She enjoyed playing Sona Mishra, a small-town woman navigating the film industry. The film is back in the spotlight after The Ba***ds of Bollywood success

Konkona Sensharma. Pic/Yogen Shah
Konkona Sensharma says she was completely blown away when she first read the script of Zoya Akhtar`s 2009 movie Luck By Chance, an unusual story that spoke about the inner workings of the film industry through the eyes of two strugglers. The popularity of Aryan Khan`s series "Ba***ds of Bollywood" has brought the focus back on Luck By Chance and Farah Khan`s 2007 hit Om Shanti Om as they all are set in the big bad world of Hindi cinema. Fans are sharing reels, scenes and memes from these movies on social media. Konkona, who currently headlines JioHotstar`s popular series, "Search: The Naina Murder Case", is happy that "Luck By Chance" is back in the limelight. "I had heard about this script, I`d heard it`s great, not very conventional. It was perhaps not getting the kind of green light or the actors that it had wanted to originally," she told PTI in an interview.
"Then I read it and felt, `It`s one of the best scripts I`ve ever read`. It is such a sparkling, fantastic script that I was just blown away. I was bowled over. I was just like, `Oh my God, can we start shooting tomorrow, please?`" The actor said it was fun to play Sona Mishra, a small town woman trying her luck in the film industry. "What an interesting and unusual character with a great and unusual resolution. It has a nice little traditional romance, male hero... I was really privileged to have worked on that film," she said. Known for her roles in films such as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Omkara, Life in a"Metro, Wake Up Sid, Talvar, and Lipstick Under My Burkha, Konkona has also directed two critically-acclaimed projects -- her feature debut A Death in the Gunj and The Mirror segment in anthology movie Lust Stories 2.