Crakk Movie Review: Navigating Messy Action and Extreme Sports for Adrenaline Junkies

Crakk Movie Review: Navigating Messy Action and Extreme Sports for Adrenaline Junkies

Bollywood has made a lot of money by showing stupid action scenes that occasionally don’t even have any punch. And Crakk: To make Jeetega Toh Jiyegaa stand out from the pack, she doesn’t do any unique actions. The picture mixes a lot of extreme sports with action to add novelty value and set itself apart from other action films, but the storyline never feels credible and the narrative lacks nuance.

Crakk struggles for the most part.

Too many clichés are used by director Aditya Datt to have any real effect, and ultimately none of them connect. Crakk makes it apparent right away that its goal is to dazzle rather than make a lasting impression. But even so, it stumbles for the most part. Furthermore, Crakk should flash the disclaimer if viewing action and stunts on screen comes with any kind of warning because there are enough heart-pounding sequences to choose from. Some end up seeming VFX-poorly augmented, while others are truly pretty thrilling and give you chills.

The plot

In the first scene of the movie, Mumbai slum resident Siddharth Dixit, sometimes known as Siddhu (Vidyut Jammwal), attempts risky, potentially fatal acts on a moving local train. He leans out of the door, sprints like a cakewalk from one compartment to another, touches poles, and climbs to the top. “Crack” is what his pals nickname him—crazy in the mind. Although the term “crack” is frequently used to describe extremely skilled and trained athletes, I’m not sure if Crakk was genuinely trying to evoke this same feeling. Here, the main plot points revolve around Vidyut’s peculiarities, his love of trying out possibly lethal feats, and extreme sports.

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The narrative also includes a flashback in which the parents of Siddhu don’t want their son to follow in the footsteps of their older brother Nihal (Ankit Mohan), who died in Maidaan, an underground survival sports tournament. Siddhu, though, could not give a damn. He keeps filming himself performing these risky exploits, frequently getting apprehended by the police, but eventually, he manages to reach Maidaan and, after leaving the streets of Mumbai, is shortly smuggled into a Polish sports venue.

Here, Siddhu has to overcome equally talented competitors from other nations as well as Maidaan’s showrunner and strong champion, Dev (Arjun Rampal). His motivation for discovering the truth about Nihal changes from simply winning the tournament until much later in the narrative, when he suspects foul play in his brother’s death. Along the way, he meets Alia (Nora Fatehi), a Maidaan influencer who thinks she is “out of her league,” but she succumbs too quickly to his corny antics and chapri lines. The narrative then proceeds in the manner that the filmmaker sees as proper.