singh is king review
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Under normal circumstances movie titles come consequently from the film theme. But in this rare case the movie theme is an outcome of the movie title. At least that's what Akshay Kumar confessed recently claiming that he came across the words 'Singh is King' as a tagline behind a truck.So inspired was he with the phrase that he suggested producer Vipul Shah to make a film out of it and Anees Bazmee was commissioned to script a story from the slogan. One can imagine the massive motivation Bazmee might have derived from this '2-word plot-point' following which he defined two obvious characters as Singh and King and fabricated a screenplay around them as per customized requirements. Perhaps that's what you call modern-age moviemaking!!!
Lucky (Sonu Sood) is the mafia King in Australia. Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) is a good-for-nothing guy from Punjab. Both are introduced individually amongst chaos and commotion, ascertaining the approaching ambience of the film. What follows is a happy-go-lucky story in literal terms as Happy goes in pursuit of Lucky to Australia. For company he has friend (Om Puri) who appears more like his father.
Suddenly the producer desires a song sequence amidst Egyptian pyramids and so the writer twists the tale in such a way that Lucky lands in Egypt while on his way to Australia. He stumbles upon a Hindi speaking heroine (Katrina Kaif) in the Arab land and dances in dreams with her.
On reaching Australia they lose Lucky's address and believe-it-or-not but cops drop them at the door of the don. In an accident Lucky gets petrified and Happy is designated as the new King. There's also a mother figure (Kirron Kher) who serves him roti in Aussie land for no good reason or relation. As per cinematic coincidence or script convenience, this mother's daughter happens to be our same Egyptian heroine who comes to Australia with her fiancée (Ranvir Shorey).
While Anees Bazmee's madcap comedy ways aren't entirely Welcome, Vipul Shah seemingly barges in midways turning things the Namastey London way by inciting a love triangle. So every comic scene is alternated with an emotional outburst and the outcome is reminiscent of your everyday stint of switching channels between cartoon network to the daily soaps to appease both your kids and kin. Alas you end up aggravating both! And so does the film!
The opening premise of Singh is Kinng faintly reminds of Sunny Deol's Jo Bole So Nihaal which too had a similar setting of a simpleton Sardar going foreign land on a mission. At least that average film invoked some culture-shock comedy but there's no such disorientation over here, as all you get to see in Australia is a gang that perhaps permits membership only to Sardars. Thankfully the film doesn't sermonize on Indian culture and values and steers away from patriotic connotations, a usual tendency with such characterizations.
Pritam's pungent Punjabi composition, at several occasions, might not go down well even with the community since the decibel levels are so noisy that even
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