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Starring Ajay Devgn, Prakash Raj, Kajal AggarwalDirected by Rohit Shetty
Rating: ** ½
This cop is a killer. He implements the laws applicable to the khaki-vardi with a passion that makes corruption seem like a mosquito that a human repellant can exterminate. His ways are unconventional. And he seethes and fumes when faced with diabolic corruption.
Last we saw, it was Rajeev Khandelwal playing the anti-establishment cop’s role in the brilliant Shaitaan. This time it’s a huge star getting into khakee. Meet Ajay Devgn as Bajirao Singham an honest-to-goodness cop who believes he has been given the law-enforcer’s job and he better take it seriously.
Hurling through a cavalcade of regionally-flush references Singham is the kind of rustic boorish kinetic action thriller where a cleaner social order is seen to be brought about by the power of the fist. Give or take a gun. Or a Devgn.
Devgn playing the one-man army invests the clichéd role with a kind of cultural specificity which allows him the leeway to get verbally regional without losing a pan-India flavour. That’s the magic of mass entertainment cinema that this film celebrates with panoramic verve.
We don’t need to comprehend Marathi to get the powerful subtexts of Devgan’s virulent attack on corruption. Fortunately Devgn isn’t the kind of actor who needs to scream to make himself heard. He effectually offsets Prakash Raj’s theatrical villainy bordering on bigtime hamming.
It is significant that the entire cast comprises Marathi actors, giving to the frenetic rustic proceedings a sense of arrogant chauvinism. Only the villain palayed by Prakash Raj is a South Indian actor of tremendous histrionic range. Give him anything to do. And he does with impassioned concentration.
A lot of the lines that the politician-villain is compelled to utter bordered on self-parody. Chunks of the action and drama are cannibalized from the Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘angry’ series , without the bridled indignance of the central character.
Yes, Singham is frustrated and embittered by the corruption that’s crept into the socio-political system. But he lacks the vitality to transmute the cop’s impotent rage into a potent cinematic language. e don’t feel for his concern for a clean social order. We just wonder whom he will thrash next, and how.
Partly, it is to do with the kind of shallowness that Singham’s love interest portrays. Jaya Bhaduri in Zanjeer and Smita Patil in Ardh Satya made a brief but telling impact on the way the enraged hero looked at the seedy world. Newcomer Kajal Aggarwal is a bundle of shallow take-away expressions, the cinematic equivalent of a home-delivered pizza, without the spicy toppings.
What sustains the narrative’s velocity is Devgn’s uncalculated moves as an action hero. He brings a kind of reckless inevitability into every blow that he delivers on the goons. There are some entertaining supporting performances, Sachin Khedeker as the heroin’e cellphone-fixated father is a hoot.
In all fairness the action sequences (Jai Singh Nijjar) are entertaining and humorous. The fights don’t take themselves seriously.
However the homilies on a need for integrity in the civil services seem like unwanted concessions to self-importance in a film that seems to revel in a kind of free-floating message on how to stay clean in a cesspool of corruption. Yup, Rohit Shetty packs in a punch.
You can’t but smile at the infinite pleasure which the director partakes from the age-old language of commercial Hindi cinema in all its flamboyant glory.
Singham is a cops film with balls.
Ajay Devgn, who is currently in Bangkok shooting for Sanjay Dutt's Rascals wishes he could be here to see how the audiences are reacting to his film Singham.
It has been learnt that the actor, who returned to action after eight years with this movie, will continue to sport his beefcake look even for his own productions Bol Bachchan by Rohit Shetty and Ashwini Dheer's Hindi remake of Telugu hit Maryada Ramanna, besides Priyadarshan's Tezz.
Ajay plays a wrestler in BB, which he starts shooting with Abhishek Bachchan, late August. He says, "Yes, there are a couple of action sequences, but they falls more in the genre of Golmaal and All The Best as it is a comedy film."
About his remake of Maryada Ramanna, the bent towards action is less and romance is more. He says, "It's basically a romantic comedy and it's being re-scripted for the wider Hindi film audience."
As for Tezz, the actor maintains, "It's a different kind of movie, so is the treatment of action in it. I hope the audiences like the thrills in this film."
Needless to say, he's very pleased with the response his cop act is evoking from the masses. Trade experts peg the first three-day India collections of Singham, which cost Rs 42 crore to make, at Rs 31 crore.
Kajal Aggarwal, who makes her Bollywood debut opposite Ajay Devgn in the much touted SINGHAM directed by Rohit Shetty has been the talk of the town for a while now.
The pretty actress is a big name down south and her performance in the movie is being highly anticipated by industry people and audiences alike. The actress has been on a tight schedule ever since she got back from Europe where she was shooting for one of her south films.
She has been in and out of the city promoting SINGHAM with the rest of the team on one hand and juggling her shoot for her south movie in Hyderabad in between. Needless to say she has over worked herself with the shooting, interviews, events etc. The actress was supposed to leave for the capital yesterday with the entire SINGHAM team including Rohit and Ajay for the last leg of SINGHAM promotions but fell unwell last minute.
The southern beauty is suffering from high fever and a terrible cough and cold. So much so that she has been advised complete bed rest for a couple of days by her doctor. The actress had to give the visit to Delhi a miss and is terribly upset as she wanted to go all out to promote her first Bollywood film.
When asked about the same, the actress said, "I have been having a great time promoting my film SINGHAM and Delhi being one of my favorite cities, I was really looking forward to going there and interacting with all. Unfortunately, I was down with the flu and my temperature kept rising. I really wanted to be there. Hopefully soon I will be making a trip to the capital."
The actress will fly to Chennai for another shoot once she gets better.
Kajal 'Singham' Agarwal - Punjabi by birth South Indian by choice
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The actress does not feel insecure about Ajay stealing the show in the promos of 'Singham' and says that she had a great time working with the actor.
When asked whether Ajay's presence makes her insecure about her visibility in the film, Kajal says, "Its not the amount of screen space that I have but it is the quality of work that I deliver.
Yes, its an Ajay Devgn film but I will stand out with my performance. I am sure after watching the film people won't stop loving me."
Directed by Rohit Shetty, 'Singham', is an action film. On her experience of working with Ajay, the actress says, "Its better for me to act with Ajay as acting is second nature to him. We have rehearsed together and he is very co-operative.
He does not need rehearsals he gave me very important tips." 'Singham', a remake of 2010 Tamil film of the same name, stars Ajay and Kajal in lead roles.
After having made a name for herself down South, Kajal, says though the reach of Hindi cinema is wider but the south film industry is now going beyond boundaries.
"The reach is bigger in Hindi cinema. The reach is definitely wider in Hindi cinema. But now-a-days south regional cinema is reaching lot of places. Both the industries are equally professional, very punctual, have got good technique, good artists, good stories and scripts, " Kajal said.
"For example my movie 'Magadheera' has been watched by lot of non-Telugu people. I do believe regional barriers are slowly and steadly disappearing which is a very good thing for us, " she said.
Talking about trends in the film industry, Kajal says, "I have noticed is lot of technicians like art directors, choreographers, actress are being shared pan-India. Like lot of south technicians are working for Hindi cinema and vice-versa.
Even actresses and actor are now working or doing films in different languages. I do believe that regional barriers are disappearing now and its now becoming one big Indian industry."
The Mumbai-based actress had reportedly stirred up controversy down South when in an interview she said she does not consider herself as a south Indian actress, as she is Punjabi by birth.
Following which Tamil and Telugu filmmakers issued statements saying they will ban the actress from working in south Indian films.
"I feel very proud that I am a South Indian actress. That industry has given me name, fame and love. I have never said I am not a south Indian actress...I have done 21 movies over there.
I do enjoy a certain position over there which is fabulous and why will I say that, " Kajal said. 'Singham' is all set to hit cinema houses on July 22.
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