Music Review : Jumbo

JUMBO (originally a Thai film KHAN KLUAY (2006) and THE BLUE ELEPHANT (ENGLISH 2008)), a fun-frolic joy-ride opens up new chapter of animation in Bollywood where voices of bankable actors makes all animated characters sing, dance and act. It's much on the strategic mindset and guidelines of flicks like THE INCREDIBLES, ICE AGE etc that collaged grand face-values of actors with the techno-flashy CGI animation. Akshay Kumar plays the boisterously fervent voice-over of lead character JUMBO, the baby elephant who strolls out from his parents to become a war-elephant! Ram Sampath, a controversial musical figure (KRAZZY 4 controversy) is the man behind musical substance for this flick and this time he complete a hat-trick of working for Akshay Kumar's flicks. Barring the exceptions of films like HANUMAN and KRISHNA, animation films have never made it big in audio markets.