Bollywood Did It First! The Internet Points Out That Sanjay Dutt's Luck Was The OG 'Squid Game'
Korean drama?Squid Game is on the track to become the most popular show on Netflix ever. People all over the world are going bonkers over the gruesome and gory story. So much so, that it has 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes by the critics.?
However, Indians think it's nothing new that they haven't seen before.?
A lot of the fans after watching Squid Game have stated that Bollywood did it first with 2009 film Luck, which starred?Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan and Shruti Haasan among others.
But was Luck was based on an original script/idea/concept?
The film was also based on Spanish thriller film?Intacto that had released in 2001.
The story followed several contestants who engaged in games of luck, wherein on the basis of luck, the unlucky were eliminated and the games were turned riskier than the last.
This indeed reminds us of Squid Game, a show that's definitely not meant for faint hearts.?
In this show, a number of players who are in deep debt compete against each other to play children's games that are indeed deadly. If you lose, you die. If you win, you a share in $38.5 million prize.
Similarly, in Luck and Spanish film?Intacto, people?in dire need of money get a chance to turn their luck around by playing a deadly game as people bet on them.
Of course, people are going bonkers.?
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