Highbrow jackson9/5/2023 ![]() This is a new aggressive Prabhudheva who not only strives to make Ajay Devgn, giggle giggle, dance but also wants to portray the women characters as lust machines. "Action Jackson" changes the rules radically. So far Prabhudheva's films may have been guilty of strutting a lowbrow idiom as an antidote to highbrow tedium. There is no mistaking the motivation behind the mayhem and melodrama. what is "Action Jackson" about? Is it a tale so deep that we perhaps confuse the the trees for the wood? Or inversely, is it a tale so shallow and crass that it parades bombastic and brash tripe as mass entertainment? Tragically the latter option repeatedly stares into our face. The question that arises after watching Devgn and Devgn (yes, there are two of him) plus girls, guns, gore and garbage, is. This is akin to saying Tendulkar plays cricket much better than kabbaddi. "Bangkok Bangkok" is the chant on the soundtrack for those who like their locations well mapped.īut we are straying.quite like the script for Prabhudheva's film which seems to have been scribbled on a series of paper napkins in crowded cafe where fights often break out, quite like the ones we see break out in the public places in Prabhudheva's designer-inanity.Īdmittedly Devgn fights much better than he dances. The very talented Sandeep Chowta provides helpful pointers in the background score: "Vishy Vishya" goes the score when Devgn is on the screen. really, loud.ĭecibels are so high, they could split eardrums provided you can stay put in your seat through the ordeal. and we don't mean his fists which speak louder than his words. The very talented Kunal Roy Kapoor, here reduced playing the hero's cretinous sidekick whose sides get kicked in every frame, and Sonakshi Sinha who spends a good part of the first-half ogling at her leading man's power-point. Officially, there are two comic relief providing actors in "Action Jackson".
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