With
a catchy phrase of ‘‘badla nahin badlaav’, this SINGH SAAB THE GREAT fights
against corruption & more but in his own way. He saves a girl from an obsessive
lover-turned-acid attacker and pours the bottle in his pants, only to realize
later that it was cleanly swapped with absolutely harmless nontoxic water. In
others, he hits back to ill-practices of hefty donations for higher education,
crime-syndicates indulged into food adulteration & illegal storage, the
in-vein bribery in bureaucratic system etc.
At
one stage, he also doesn’t forget to comment on TRP-driven media with ‘aap
journalist hain…thodi toh samajhdaari dikhayiye’. Sounds good?? Yes, sounds good
but loud too…in fact, extremely loud! & that’s the problem with SINGH SAAB
THE GREAT! Everything that happens, happens with a noisy-ear deafening sound
beyond the range of decibels set for normal human hearing.
Anil
Sharma’s SINGH SAAB THE GREAT is a loud, melodramatic, over-aged action
potboiler that is best enjoyable at single screen theatres where claps set the
mood for anything outrageous and compensate for the most of inconsequential
parts. A supposedly comeback vehicle of the real action star Sunny Deol, film
seems to be going forward with a noble cause of social reformation as its
structural content base but fails to built an inspiring legend out of it to meet
its desired end. A mediocre script filled with run of the mill plot-subplots
& superfluous emotional sequences including hero’s women affiliations i.e.
lovely wife, bubbly sister!
Story
written by GADAR fame Shaktimaan smells rotten & out-dated where an honest
district collector Saranjeet Singh [played by Sunny Deol] sweats his blood out to
stop corruption personified by a local dominant king of all illegal actions Bhoodev
Singh [played by Prakash Raj in his regular avatar as if coming straight from
the sets of Singham & Dabangg 2]. In one scene, when the villainous Prakash
Raj tries to twist Deol’s character Saranjeet Singh’s arm by kidnapping his
sister, Saranjeet Singh hits back with taking Prakash Raj’s wife & daughter
into his custody. Now, isn’t it something we all have thought as an escape-plan
to our emotional to the core Bollywood heroes? But surprisingly it’s one of the
few exciting moments in the film that brings an effortless smile on your face.
On
the performances, Sunny looks every part of his character. He succeeds in
charming you with his personality and the honesty dripping off his face.
Prakash Raj, when not chewing off his lips, sure entertains you in bits &
pieces especially in an item song where he dances with his left feet following
‘dance like no one is watching’ attitude. You have to see it to believe it
[Considering his real life better-half Pony Verma being an established
choreographer]. New face Urvashi Rautela is mostly there as a regular heroine
material with her plastic smile best for advertising the new toothpaste in your
nearest supermarket. Amrita Rao is inconsistent but looks quite impressive. You
also need to have some kind of magical powers to deal with unbearably annoying
sidekicks of both on screen & that includes actors like Johnny Lever, Manoj
Pahwa.
I
wish if it would have been released soon after GADAR, it would have become an
instant crowdpuller but as of now when everyone looks so done with SINGHAM era,
it is just another of the league! You can even re-coined its name as ‘SINGHAM
SAAB THE GREAT’! Watch if Sunny’s Roar can evoke electrifying energy in you!
For me, it’s just OK! [2/5]
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