“Cinema is more an entertainment and less a creating social awareness, or societal change, more than change driven, cinema is the depiction of society.”
This is the interpreted statement commented by two Superstars of Bollywood Amir Khan and Shahrukh Khan, though I been fan of their contributions in society driven movies like Chakde India and Tarre Zameen Par.
Considering this, sometimes we truly tend to forget that Cinema is truly made for entertainment, that’s the reason why we aren’t able to forget mass entertainment like Sholay, Zanjeer, and Qurbani or latest being Dabangg.
So here we have one more film based on police, fighting the political system, but not like an underdog, but an avenging lion. There are Three Heads of Lion for Asoka Emblem on the police cap, the fourth being the head bearing the three, so why should he be an underdog? Why should his family always go on toss? Why should there be an extensive fight sequence at the end of such film? Why should an honest police officer pass through acid test to entertain the audience, why this overloaded, hyperacted melodrama? Cut the crap yaar!, roaring out is Rohit Shetty’s new outing, Singham.
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| Singham one liner: “Apne Ghar mein Kutta Bhi Sher Hota Hain, Bahar aaa....!” |
Lion is the king of the jungle, so is Bajirao Singham, the saviour of Shivgad, but what if Lion changes the kingdom and enters into other Lion’s den; such is the plot of Rohit Shetty’s Singham.
Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgan) insults egoistic godfather of Goa Jaykant Chikre (Prakash Raj) in Shivgad, Jaykant in turn brings Bajirao in his own turf Goa and begins to humiliate, torment him,
Excellent tussle between two equals forms the zest of Singham
The premier credit must go the writers of the film, though the film is predictable made on a repetitive subject it does not succumbs to clichés followed by previous movies on police like bad guy holding the family of the police, captive; political pressures; extensive fight at last with unnecessary use of blasts and miraculous victory of hero over the system like shown in Shool, Kurukshetra, Garv or latest being Dabangg. Singham, though equally entertaining as these movies, lives to its name i.e. “lion cannot be held captive” Ironically, it’s a parody on the most favourite topic for Indian filmmakers.
Ajay Devgan, known for his choice of films and script driven films, carry the mantle of mass hysteric Bajiro Singham effortlessly. Observe him when he walks the life size screen when title track rocks the cinema halls, adrenaline levels of the audience just pump out.
Any words of appreciation for Prakash Raj’s Jaykant Chikre, would be an understatement, such fluent shift between two different moods (comic and dreadful) can be done with panache only by a National Award winning Actor. Jaykant Chikre is flesh and blood. It is his larger than life godfather acting in absence of Bajirao and dumb, caricatured don in his presence makes Bajirao Singham look even bigger.
Special mention to around 13 Marathi artists in the background, be it simple corrupted yet seeking redemption Ashok Saraf, or most remembering character Gotya(Gautam Bhosle) played by Theatre genius Sachin Khedekar. Kajal Aggarwal plays her part of adding glamour uniquely to the mass hysteric action movie well.
Ajay Atul (Natrang, “Ganeshya Dhemayi” fame) makes a confident comeback as the music composer duo in Hindi film Industry after taking Marathi Film music to zenith. Title track effectively defines the mood of the film; where as light romantic songs like “badmassh dil” keep the melody in the film alive.
Over all three cheers to Rohit Shetty for churning out an ideal recipe for mass entertainment, every spice added is perfect and in sync with the concept, that’s the reason why gravity defying stunts which could even force makers of Matrix commit suicide, look amicable.
With least usage of the human brain, this is the most entertaining movie from the Hindi film industry this year till now.
Nice one
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