Welcome to Goa, Singham!

When I watched the trailer of Singham, first thought in my head was, "Is Ajay Dvgan (or is it Devgn? I hate these numerologists giving weird suggestion to our actors) playing Sunny Deol in this movie? (since all Sunny gets to work on these days are his family home videos)" Since Rohit Shetty is the director, you are bound to see some flying four wheelers without any apparent reason. Devgn's dance (making claws with his fingers) in the title song reminded me of Mithun's Cheetah. So I kind of knew what to expect from this movie.



The movie starts with Inspector Kadam committing suicide after being implicated in a corruption case and his wife claiming that the man behind all this is Jayakant Shikre. Then the movie sifts to a small village called Shivgarh, where Bajirao Singham is running to local police station is his own way and being loved and respected in the entire village for the great work he is doing. It all changes when he hurts Shirke's ego. Shirke gets him transferred to the same police station where Kadam committed suicide. Singham takes time to adjust to the change and when he does adjust all logic is forgotten. He does whatever he want, which includes verbally bashing his senior in public, beating up a minister in his office, convincing all the corrupt and timid policemen in Goa to turn honest and brave with his speech (he must be invited for one such speech in our parliament, that would save Anna from fasting), last but not the least abusing Newton by defying all three laws of motion. We also get to learn that Singham and gravity cannot stay together, so when Singham is transferred to Goa, gravity quietly leaves town may be to save it from the embarrassment of being insulted by Singham. In the end in a highly dramatic climax we get to see entire police force working together to get rid of one corrupt politician wonderfully played by Prakash Raj.



Later I learned that it is remake of a South Indian movie so it was stupid of me to expect the existence of gravity in the movie, since gravity left South India long ago (cannot attach a time line to it since carbon dating has failed to estimate Rajnikanth's age, he was found to be older than carbon). The entire story can be said in one dialog repeated many times by Shikre, "Kuchh bhi karna, mera ego hurt mat karna." The entire movie is the consequence of Singham hurting Shikre's ego. Prakash Raj is brilliant as Shikre and Devgn is playing Sunny Deol, how difficult can that be. Oh there is Sonali Kulkarni also along with the lead Kajal as Kavya, however I am still thinking about the significance of their presence in the movie. The movie was about Singham representing pure good vs Shikre representing pure evil. Songs are unnecessary and could have been avoided to make the movie shorter. Overall it was an entertaining watch.