Tashan: The Movie Where Akshay Kumar Teaches a Python How to Act
Here’s an interesting, slightly offbeat review of Akshay Kumar’s Tashan (2008): akshay kumar tashan movie
Akshay plays , a small-town Lucknow tour guide with a pompadour that deserves its own credit roll, a lisp he deploys like a secret weapon, and a wardrobe stolen from a flamboyant 80s rockstar. He’s supposed to be the comic relief, but here’s the twist: he’s the only actor who realizes the movie is a parody. While Kareena Kapoor does a “western” accent so thick you could slice it, Saif Ali Khan stares intensely at mirrors, and Anil Kapoor plays a gangster named Bhaisaab who loves English literature—Akshay simply chews the scenery, spits it out, and does a pelvic thrust. Tashan: The Movie Where Akshay Kumar Teaches a
Watch it for Akshay’s python-wrangling skills and his hair alone. Just don’t ask what “Tashan” actually means. Neither does the film. Watch it for Akshay’s python-wrangling skills and his
The “interesting” part? There’s a scene where Akshay’s character has a full-blown, heartfelt conversation with a snake. And wins. The snake shows more emotional range than the film’s plot. Later, he rides a bicycle into a gunfight and emerges unscathed, because logic checked out of Tashan around the time the item song “Chhaliya” decided to exist.