Take, for instance, the most integral element of the story – the fact that Devgn plays dad to a girl born to the Bulgarian tourist. ‘Shivaay' has nothing more than a dollop of misogyny and awful stereotypes to offer, all of which Devgn turns into a multi-crore “festival” release and throws at audiences with brute force. With ‘Shivaay’, the actor also dons the director’s hat – the second time he does so after ‘U Me Aur Hum’, a lazy adaptation of ‘The Notebook’, but which at least had a story to tell.
Sometime around the beginning of the decade, though, Devgn tasted box office success with senseless Rohit Shetty comedies, and now he feels obliged to replicate that in films like ‘Himmatwala’, ‘Son of Sardar’ and ‘Action Jackson’, all of which withered away at the box office after big opening weekends. It’s amazing that Devgn feels the need to resort to penis jokes in his films as he pushes 50, especially because the actor had some credible films to his name till a few years ago. Given the scene that follows, my guess is he said “lingam”. His reply remains inaudible, because the dialogue is censored. The girl, unsatisfied with the responses, asks him if there’s any other Shiva feature he possesses. Devgn, the eponymous Shivaay, goes on to show tattoos adorning his body, which signify different aspects of the deity.
In ‘Shivaay’, Devgn’s latest in a recent spate of horrid movies, his character gets asked by a Bulgarian tourist how similar he is to Lord Shiva. In Prabhudheva’s ‘Action Jackson’ – an absolute nightmare of a film – Sonakshi Sinha played a character who believed the penis of Ajay Devgn’s character was ‘lucky’ for her.
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