There is a point
in time towards the end of Action Jackson (we shall call it AJ here on forth) where
Khushi (Sonakshi Sinha) apologises to Jay (Ajay Devgn) for a misunderstanding
and tells him that she misses Vishy (Ajay Devgn). The movie instantly cuts to “Chichhora
Piya”.
It was at this
time that a section of the audience at the preview show broke into a loud laugh. The pent up frustration over nearly 2 hours had
exploded. The rest of the 30 minutes was
a breeze in comparison to the excruciating pain that Prabhu Deva and his
writers (Shiraz Ahmed & A C Mughil) had put us through.
It took 2 hours
for the audience to actually realize that the intent was to make a comedy and
not an action movie. We were all idiots
to have expected something different. We
had expected India’s Michael Jackson to deliver an all-out quality action flick. How could we have done that?
We had
experienced Ramaiyya Vastavaiya and R… Rajkumar last year right? So we were the
guilty party here. So the secret to sustain Action Jackson and most of all a
certain Musa (Kunaal Roy Kapur) is to just laugh at everything that comes up on
screen.
It is of course
funny to see Sev Puris being carried by Musa on a bike in a manner that the
Puris fly towards the biker that’s following.
Not surprising at all that the biker is from Gemini Circus and manages
to land each one of them right into his mouth.
He of course asks for water after all of it.
It is of course
hilarious to watch Ajay Devgn dance (or should we say attempt to dance). It is of course comic to see goons dressed in
shoddy red suits getting thrashed and of course quartered. The quartering is thanks to the Samurai sword
that is hugely successful in making a clean cut across AJ’s suit but of course doesn’t
nick him one bit in the process.
If that doesn’t make
you laugh your guts off (and mind you I am being extremely sarcastic – lest someone
takes me seriously) then the point where Marina (Manasvi Mamgai) has just
skewered Musa (Thank God for that!!! – makes you love Marina). She leans over into his ear and says, “Where
is AJ. I miss him. It has been months”!!!!
There are of
course shady dialogues like “Singham se Chingam bana diya”. But the piece de resistance has to be when AJ
and Don Xavier (Anand Raj) come face to face in profile with Pink Floyd’s cover
as a precursor. Exceptional Prabudeva
sir!!! Sensational indeed!!! What creativity!!!
The saving grace
for AJ are a couple of shots during the action sequences (something that used
to be Prabhudeva’s forte but apparently it has deserted him). There is of course Himes Bhai’s music that is
foot tapping and hummable as always.
Will be played at discos for a while.
2 on 10 only for these 2 points.
Watch the
trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YubQzbzGHps
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