Highly Overrated But Still Good

Absolutely the worst movie.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie was brilliant and entertaining but it's really good to be able and enjoyable I love the songs and entertaining songs Storyline is superb screenplay is superb editing is superb direction is superb background music is superb Ajay devgn is superb kajal does well in her debut performance Prakash is amazing as the villain This movie is really impressive and outstanding Don't miss it 8/10

I wasn't aware that Rohit Shetty directed 'Singham'. Otherwise I would have avoided this. The only reason why I decided to watch this was because I had scene it in a top ten best film list (where it was listed alongside gems like 'I Am', 'Stanley ka Dabba' and son) and read that it was a homage to those B-movie-type films. Anyway, after watching it I'm still wondering where the homage was? It's pretty much just another remake of those horrible 90's action flicks. The only difference is that it's a tad more 'stylized'. I mean the dishum dishum action sequences (yes, there are plenty of those) are a combination of slow-motion and fast-forward. The story has nothing new to offer. It's the typical one man versus numerous goons. Ajay Devgan has had more than a decade's practise of playing the 'good cop' so he plays it to the formula. However, the scene stealer is Prakash Raj. With his natural flair for comedy, he is hilarious as the over-the-top villain. Anyway, there isn't much else to say really. 'Singham' disappoints but Prakash Raj tickles.

Singham is what I'd describe as a throwback to the 80's mindless action movies where the hero alone takes only gangs of thugs and beats them to a pulp without ruining his hairstyle. In this case, Singham's moustache! Singham is shot in the same style as Dabangg, except that Singham's storyline was meant to have more in terms of depth and seriousness of the storyline. Instead it becomes a caricature of itself and manages to spoil what would have been good entertaining movie.The good thing about Dabangg is that no one really takes themselves seriously in the movie. Salman, after all these years, still cannot act properly and continues to pass himself off as some Hollywood super cool action star. But at least his cheesy style worked in the movie because the storyline was tailor made for that cheesiness. But in Singham it's the opposite.Ajay Devgan takes himself too seriously in the role and thus it's frustrating to watch him take out whole groups of people and then earnestly tell off a whole police squadron for their lack of honor and duty. How can you take Singham seriously when he chases down a car on foot or rips a steel pole out of solid concrete.This should have been a much better movie, concentrating more on the police corruption than on the ridiculous action stunts.Acting wise Devgan is okay. His seriousness in the silly role spoils, for me, the movie. In fact the only person who stole the show was Prakash Raj as Jaykant Shikre. It seems that he was the one actor who realized what a pathetic story Singham was and so he might as well have fun. He provided quite a few laughs with his antics, and I even admired his guts whenever he was outnumbered by the good guys. Kajal Agarwal as Kavya was okay, and better than most new débutantes. She certainly has more screen time than Sonakshi Sinha in Dabangg.Having seen the rubbish that Rohit Shetty had directed prior to Singham I shouldn't be surprised with Singham but sooner or later Shetty will have to make a decision: Either make good sensible movies or stupid comedies that can cause brain damage. Personally, I hope he chooses my preferable choice: stop directing.This is hard to recommend. I'd say watch Dabangg instead for something more hilarious and fun.

SINGHAM as people know was first made in Tamil starring the heartthrob Surya and Anushka Shetty with Prakash Raj as the villain After it's success the film was remade in Telugu and Kannada as Yamuda and Kempegowda respectivelyRohit Shetty who started off with ZAMEEN an action film and followed with all comedies except one Sunday which was a bad thriller cum comedy Now he returns with SINGHAM an action film.Ajay Devgn got a new lease with OUATIM last year followed by another action film AAKROSH which failed now he returns with SINGHAMSINGHAM follows the same plot as the original afterall a remake but Rohit Shetty doesn't leave his comedy part and rewrites several scenes, characters and adds lot of comedy and cuts off several other stuff from the originalThe original had several more twists and turns towards the end which is all re-written in the remake The film starts off with a new subplot of Sudhanshu-Shonali which wasn't in the original and the initial portions have been re-written too The introduction of Surya was in an action scene but here Ajay comes out bare body from a sea followed by a song, to give him credit he must be lauded as the water it seems was chilling and it requires guts to do it but from the script point of view, his introduction could be better without the DABAANG style song, we shouldn't compare it to DABAANG though The film moves on a nice pace and one anticipates a good build-up, thankfully in the remake they have avoided the long comedy track by Vivek in the original which wouldn't suit in Hindi The film however has the typical romantic/songs.etc which were in the original too and similarly the theatre scene and the fight is straight a rip-off from the original. One sore point in the remake is every time we have Ajay walk in slow motion and the music beats to the title song which was not like that in the original which makes it boring and repetitive.Keeping into mind, Rohit Shetty's comedy style, we have Anant Jog a politician unlike in the original where his character supported Singham here he is a bad guy and he keeps mouthing NONSANSE(nonsense) and also Prakash Raj's character is made funny and is given several funny dialogues unlike in the original Even the film is set in Maharashtra/Goa and they have used Marathi a lot, there are several well written dialogues but Ajay and Prakash Raj don't speak Marathi too well(Ajay is Punjabi and Prakash a tamilian) To give Rohit credit, several scenes are well handled like the clash between Ajay/Prakash Raj which mostly is recreated though the election subplot and scenes towards the end are re-written hereIn the original, Singham was promoted to ACP and also given to handle kidnapping racket which is all changed here To be fair the film keeps up to masala diktats and the film has several clap trap scenes and also good dialogues mostly copy paste but yet there leave a mark But towards the end after Ajay waking up the police and reminding them of their duties, the film changes track and ends as a farce, the climax is a big letdown and falls flat Direction by Rohit Shetty is good in parts but he fails in some scenes too and how one wishes could've stuck to the original at least towards the finale Music by Ajay-Atul also isn't that good, the title song with bad choreography by Ganesh Acharya is decent, the romantic songs are good but make the film boring Dialogues are clapworthy Action scenes are like South films, and like the original here too they defy gravity but some are too overdone like Ajay pulling the goon from a revolving jeepAmongst actors Ajay Devgan returns to masala fare and does a great job as usual in cop roles, He uses his eyes and body language to the fullest here too Thankfully he doesn't copy Surya and does well, he has worked hard on his physique too and it looks fab Kaajal Agarwal is good too in a less demanding role, She looks good and resembles Tanushree Dutta but lends some freshness Prakash Raj is superb, though getting typecast in such roles In the original his role was very serious here he is made to play to the gallery and every dialogue, expression leaves a mark He does a superb job in scenes pitted front to Ajay Devgan and their chemistry is to be seen to watch Amongst rest Shonali Kulkarni does well in her role which wasn't in the original, Sudhanshu in a guest role does well Marathi actors like Ashok Samarth and Ashok Saraf are superb, Samarth is excellent while Ashok will win his fans again after disappearance for some time, he excels towards the second half and leaves you in splits Anant Jog leaves a mark, Murli Sharma is adequate Govind Namdeo has less scope, Sachin Khedekar's comedy track wasn't in the original and his character was serious and it isn't that good here rest are okay