Aug 15, 2014 03:31 PM
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Expectations: Almost half a decade back Aamir Khan & Salman Khan initiated the big budget action genre back in our Hindi cinema with their films like'Ghajini' &'Wanted'. This action led to a chain reaction, where almost all big actors started venturing into this genre with their style and associate directors. One of them was Ajay Devgn with his blue eyed director Rohit Shetty, who together gave us another great big budget action film'Singham'. All of these films were a remake of some super hit south Indian film except for Salman Khan's'Dabangg', which extended its popularity by making a sequel to it in the form of'Dabangg 2'. Though, the magic of the first part was highly missing and viewers were fooled into watching a sequel, which could be rightly spelled as mere extension or a rehash of the earlier part. Now following the fad Ajay Devgn & Rohit Shetty returns back with the sequel to their 2011's super hit film'Singham' in the form of'Singham Returns'. The movie this time gets a bigger heroine and is set in the backdrop of Mumbai city instead of a small town in Goa. So let's find out, whether this successful team of Ajay Devgn-Rohit Shetty will once again give us another out and out entertainer or this movie too, just like'Dabangg 2' might just end up being an extended show-reel to its earlier predecessor.
Story: 'Singham Returns' is a story of dare devil cop D.C.P Bajirao Singham(Ajay Devgn), who is now looking after the law and order of Mumbai city. Singham is supported by many well wishers, including political leader Guruji(Anupam Kher), who plans to change the whole political scenario with the help of his modern ideas. Sadly, Guruji is assassinated in front of Singham and thus starts a whole new chapter in the life of Bajirao Singham. What happens next is what the entire film is all about.
Screenplay & Technicalities: The story is something which we have seen for zillion times in our Hindi cinema, wherein a politician and some religious leader are trying to stop a revolutionary, followed by the whole good vs evil plot line.'Singham' also had something similar story idea, but the whole treatment and the motive behind it was different and unique.'Singham Returns' starts with a power packed intro scene of Ajay Devgn but as the movie progresses it goes into the sleep mode which only wakes up during the action scenes. Speaking about the action scenes there are some remarkable action scenes(in Rohit Shetty style) like the attack on Anupam Kher, Ajay Devgn fighting the goons in the warehouse and few more. It's at these times your zeal of excitement is back otherwise, most of the time you are left with watching a bland film which keeps repeating the original dialogues of its predecessor. There are few dramatic and comical moments too, which might hold your attention for a while, but at the rest of the places it lacks the intensity and entertainment factor which we witnessed in'Singham', Amole Gupte's track was lame and the movie lacked good dramatic moments, comical moments, twist and most importantly, entertainment factor. It's so sad that when the writers fail to get any solution they make the cops take law in their own hand to do justice. They even failed to create new power packed dialogues or some interesting plot line for the film, due to which it ended up being a stale product packed in a new wrapping. The camera work is good and the movie has been shot in some great locations of Mumbai city.
Music & Direction: Music by various music directors is a total waste of time. None of the songs in the film go well with the flow of the film. The songs are forced and unwanted.'Aata Maji Satakli' in the end credits is worth watching for the small child associated with it.
Director Rohit Shetty is at present the most successful and celebrated director with maximum blockbuster under his sleeves. He started his career by making an action film'Zameen', which bombed badly and thus one could see his passion for drama and action in'Singham' where he did excell. In'Singham Returns', the whole passion and excitement is missing and due to which the movie ends up being among all those films which are made only to fool its audience and encash over the past glory of its predecessor. It's only in the action part and the scenes where Ajay Devgn repeats the super hit dialogues from'Singham', one can find the Rohit Shetty's involvement in this film as at rest places it was hardly to be found.
Performances: Ajay Devgn is outstanding in the action scenes and you will love to see him mouthing his super hit dialogues. Sadly, his character does not rise up the way it was suppose to and ends up being a mere clone to his earlier film. Kareena Kapoor looked pretty and charming, but her role was just to add the glamour quotient to the film. The chemistry between her and Ajay was weak and unappealing. Amole Gupte ends up giving the worst performance among all others in the film. After watching him one badly misses Prakash Raj who's role of Jaykant Shikre could be termed as modern day Mogambo which was loved by everyone. Amole Gupte's character and performance failed to even come close to what Prakash Raj and his character did to the film'Singham'. Anupam Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ganesh Yadav and Dayanand Shetty lend good support. Zakir Hussain was repetitive. Sharat Saxena, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Shriswara, Sonali Kulkarni, Ashwini Kalsekar, Govind Namdeo, Sarita Joshi and many more were highly wasted in the film.
So bol meri "FILMI KHOPDI" iss film mein kitna hain Dum?
Dum? Well, there is some good dum in the form of action and couple of dramatic moments. Besides these few enjoyable moments, the movie is a drag and boring. Till the last scene one keeps hoping that the movie might get the magic and entertainment factor of'Singham' back, sadly it ends up being another extended flick on the line of'Dabangg 2', where the lovable characters are there but you don't seem to love them anymore. The movie is a total rehash of'Singham' but not even one fourth amount of the fun and entertainment factor. Singham means lion and in the movie'Singham' it was roaring and powerful, but this time it ends up being as a circus lion, which keeps repeating its trick on the whip of the ringmaster without any power or fierceness attached to it.
