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Lukkhe

Hindi


A young sportsman infiltrates the wild and dangerous world of Punjab's rap music to investigate a drug syndicate, only to find himself torn between love, family, guilt and brotherhood.

Cast:Raashii Khanna, Palak Tiwari, Lakshvir Saran, Shivankit Singh Parihar, Nakul Roshan Sandev, Kritika Bhardwaj, Yograj Singh, Ayesha Raza Mishra,
Director:Himank Gaur
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All Guild Reviews of Lukkhe

The makers wrestle with how much fun they’re allowed to have, lean too heavily on lengthy backstories, and never let stakes truly rise.

Fox in morning light

Suchin Mehrotra | The Hollywood Reporter India

Fri, May 8 2026

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A Middling Musical Drama About Deranged Rappers and Dull Druglords

Fox in morning light

Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India

Fri, May 8 2026

Starring King and Lakshvir Saran, Lukkhe (“Slackers”) starts off promisingly before collapsing into a series of Punjab-set cliches

A rising hockey star, Lucky, is admitted to rehab after a tragic accident. He kicks his drug habit, unpacks his trauma and falls for his recovery buddy, Sanober. After their breezy stint, the boy meets the girl’s volatile “family”: a hotshot Punjabi rapper named MC Badnaam, his girlfriend Paddy, and bestie Jazzy. In a heartbeat, a lovelorn Lucky is blackmailed and recruited as an informant by a narcotics officer named Gurbani; she has been working for years to bust an undercover drug ring led by none other than MC Badnaam. Now Lucky is her trump-card. But it’s not so simple. Lucky is morally conflicted as the mole; he is integrated into Badnaam’s side hustle but feels too hard for Sanober, even as a rival rapper and villain emerges as a ghost from their past. Things get knotty and violent. Cue climax at a music concert. Where else can things end?

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Some highs in an overly ambitious show about drugs, rap music and crime

Fox in morning light

Udita Jhunjhunwala | Mint writing for Scroll.in

Fri, May 8 2026

Set against the restless, neon-tinged underbelly of Chandigarh and soundtracked to Punjabi rap, Lukkhe wants to be many things at once. The Prime Video show created by Agrim Joshi and Debojit Das Purkayastha is a rap saga, a crime thriller, an addiction drama and a story about broken young people trying to regain their footing. Intoxication, violence and tragedy are embedded in this world. Remorse, revenge and redemption follow.

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