India is a land
where superstitions are the most fertile substance, that too without having
much substance. Ranging from the black cat crossing your path to someone
sneezing at you while you’re making your best move; superstitions don’t demand much
but quite a few non-rational minds with blind-faith. Add a new count to the
list. If you are a girl tagged as ‘unlucky’ by your friends and have same
amount of common sense as Sonakshi flaunts in the film, here is the good news. Seeing
someone special [Ajay Devgn in this case] in his undies could get you promotions
in your job or you might also win a jackpot at your nearest mega mart. I wish making
audience feel the same would have been so easy for Prabhudheva!
Prabhudheva’s latest
brainless entertainer ACTION JACKSON is a terribly torturous exercise not only
to watch it as a viewer but also to recollect and reconcile it on paper as a
film reviewer. Trust me, I could go and copy paragraphs from my earlier reviews
of such mindless 100 Cr club entries to paste it here and you would never
notice a thing. But then, I am no Prabhudheva myself. There’s nothing called
story in this weirdly comic and miserably painful action drama as such; still, I
would try my best to make you understand how difficult and excruciating it
could get to sit through.
Ajay Devgn plays a
good-hearted gunda who can intimidate
a school principal for not giving admission to a street-vendor’s son just
because the father is an illiterate. So what if while doing such good social work
with help of the shining dagger in his hands, he forgets that the kid is there in
the frame too, probably having wrong impressions about which career is the most
considerable and dependable of the both. Sonakshi plays you know what. She has
been playing this role for the nth time now and is still, very far from
mastering it. Kunaal Roy Kapoor of ‘DELHI BELLY’ enters the Limca Book of worst
Records for making a mark in slap-stick comedies. He gets slapped non-stop in
every scene he makes appearance in to bring some smile on your face. Acting is
a painful process for many, I guess!
And then; in the
midst of so many disappointments, shines and rises the Femina Miss India 2010
Manasvi Mamgain making her debut as the bad girl Marina. She carries her
promise at the pageant to empower women in India by playing a tough and
determined girl who intrepidly dares the machoman Ajay Devgn in the film with, “Mujhe
jo cheej pasand aa jaaye, wo meri ho jaati”. Bravo, for beating all the Gulshan
Grovers & Prem Chopras of Bollywood!
Overall, ACTION
JACKSON is filled with gravity-defying action sequences, absurdly placed dance
numbers, comedy that hardly tickles any bone and a lot of ear-deafening sound
effects. The plot gets thicken only at the time of interval when the twist gets
unraveled. And it works, especially to make you convinced about not leaving the
film in the interval only. Mission successful! You are fooled, again. Like said
in the first para, India is a land of superstitions. Blending hysterical hammering
action, bizarrely non-sense comedy and rude romance with added star-value would
make a complete entertainer, is another myth. Don’t trust. Stay away! [1/5]
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