Dulquer Salmaan and Sonam Kapoor's ' Zoya Factor' promises to be a quirky love story surrounded by a cricket crazed setting. Born on same day as India won 1983 cricket World Cup, 20 something Zoya Solanki is stuck in between campaigns and meeting love of her life, interestingly, she is also considered her family's lucky charm when it comes to winning matches, but when she is offered a contract to be Team India's lucky mascot and winning big payday that she always thought of, she finds herself in a spot. So was film able to hit a sixer? Let's find out! 

Director: Abhishek Sharma 
Cast: Dulquer Salmaan, Sonam Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Ang Bedi, Sikander Kher 
Genre: Romantic-Comedy
Date released: September 20, 2019
CBFC rating: U/A
Duration: 2 hours 14 minutes

Reviewer rating: 2.5/5

Setting Scene: 

film based on Anuja Chauhan's 2008 vel of same name, begins with on-screen Indian skipper Nikhil Khoda (Dulquer Salmaan) relying solely on hard work and pushing his team members to do ir best in order to win ongoing series. However, as fate would have it, y have alrey lost quite a few matches, due to which morale of Men in Blue is running low. w,
enter Zoya Solanki (Sonam Kapoor), a clumsy, careless and a rar gullible junior copywriter who thinks her 'personal & professional life sucks'. But, for one she was born same day as India won 1983 Cricket World Cup, due to which she is considered 'lucky charm' of her family, also because every time she would have breakfast with bror's gully cricket team, y would win ir match. (nsensical isn't it?) 

Plot: 

When Zoya (Sonam Kapoor) and Nikhil Khoda (Dulquer Salmaan) meet each or, y instantly hit it off and while re's a definite spark between two, re is something else that comes into factor. Zoya soon has Team India eating of her hands, quite literally! Wondering why? Well, because she just happens to have breakfast with Team after which y win a rar important match leing superstitious team to believe that she might be lucky for cricket, and y seem to be completely sure after she narrates her 'Gully cricket times' with her bror at table one day. Amidst all craziness related to nation favourite sport, is a budding romance between main characters, which one can say fails to make an impact to very end. 

Verdict: 

first half of film runs at a rar slow pace and is all about establishing Sonam Kapoor's character (Zoya Solanki) into a clumsy and careless junior copywriter. And while writing attempts to make her character look naive and incent, it can be rar putting off, given Sonam often chooses to play mousy character, thus t bringing anything new to table. However, with what she's given, Sonam pulls off her role with honesty and charisma. 
Dulquer Salmaan (Nikhil Khoda), on or hand, seems to be USP of film, thus overpowering Sonam in this rar unrealistic casual love story. Although, he is t able to pull off body langu of an Indian Skipper, and makes you feel like he's more of a boy next door rar than an international cricketer. One striking and grasping point of film that comes at very end is hard work vs luck debate, wherein Men in Blue try to win a match without ir ly luck. Although, by n audience is just waiting to leave  atres given film's languid pace. 

What works: music is definitely a plus, dialogues by Prhuman Singh Mall that make  film bearable. 

What doesn't work: chemistry between le, unrealistic story peg and languid pace of film. 

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