After the hit of 'Roadside Romeo', Bollywood is all set to witness the release of its next animation project - 'Jumbo'. Produced by 'Percept Picture Company', the animation movie has voice-overs by Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Dimple Kapadia, Rajpal Yadav and Gulshan Grover. 'Jumbo' revolves around the life of an elephant - 'Jumbo aka Jaiveer' (Akshay Kumar), who doesn't know about his father. He is constantly made fun of, by his fellow elephants, since he is 'fatherless'.

Jaiveer sets on a journey to the human camp close to the jungle. Unluckily he fails in his mission. On his way back home, he meets a pink, pretty eyed elephant Sonia (now every hero however fat and round deserves to have a heroine right?). Sonia, who by the way despises being called Pinky, accompanies Jumbo back home only to find his mother gone. So the friendly Sonia takes the dejected Jumbo to her home - a village full of good humans.

Jaiveer sets his journey to the human camp, close to the jungle. Unluckily he fails in his purpose. On his way back, he meets a pink, pretty girl elephant, Sonia and he falls for her.

So, Jumbo and Sonia come back and find that his mother is gone. So Sonia, who also starts developing feelings for Jumbo takes him to her home - a village full of good humans.

Jumbo gets weaker by the time he reaches the village, where humans and animals are working together for beasts and warlords. “Jumbo” sees a cow chained and Jumbo also learns the value of humans who captured him and he is trained in the camp. Jumbo becomes stronger than anyone under the training of a mahout.

The local warlord comes regularly to collect Taxes from the villagers, who get greedy every year to face opposition from the villagers and in a rebel between the villagers and the warlords, the beasts and warlords get defeated.

The king calls for the elephant Jumbo for his army and he finds him breaking chains to meet his mother and the king recognizes him. The king calms Jumbo to hire him as his war elephant and in this quest Jumbo meets a gigantic war elephant with a Fiery Eye, which was responsible for the death of Jumbo’s father, and Jumbo gets a chance to relieve themselves in the battle for the glory of the Kingdom, and take revenge.

The movie is well directed. The romantic song, which features Jumbo and Sonia developing feelings for each other, is not much appreciated. The animation is good, especially the fight sequence.

Jumbo has the frills of a typical Hindi movie. There's revenge, romance, emotions, action... plus, the voiceovers by several top names, besides a song [well choreographed by Ahmed Khan] and scenes featuring Akshay Kumar. Also, the voiceovers are in sync with the lip moments. Akshay, Dimple Kapadia, Rajpal Yadav and Gulshan Grover fill life in those animated characters.

On the whole, Jumbo is a lovable, genuine and straightforward movie that works.