SINGH IS KING Movie Review: An unsatisfying experience; much below expectations.
Before the movie started one could feel the excitement in the hall with all the whistles, shouting and claps. But all went calm slowly and no one was excited enough as the last credits were rolling. There were mammoth expectations from Akshay Kumar in the role of a Sikh and coming up with a solid title “Singh is King” raised those expectations to the highest level. But sadly the film fails to satisfy even half of what was expected.
The film starts promisingly with some village sequences and then the story takes a similar turn like in “Jo Bole So Nihaal”. Here also a villager is sent to a foreign country to bring back his fellow villager, who is now the DON of that country. Last time we saw Sunny Deol going abroad to bring back a criminal, but this time Akshay has an associate Om Puri who goes along with him.
The story proceeds introducing some funny associates of the don who fail to raise enough laughter, a lady selling flowers, her daughter and her fiancé. Since the original don gets paralyzed, Akshay has to take over as the don and then he goes on to transform hearts. That’s the storyline of the movie.
The story commences with Akshay & Ompuri, boarding on to a wrong flight and they land in Egypt instead of Australia (Quite a new thought). The writer takes them there only to meet Katrina and sing songs and then they get back to Australia where the Don plot comes in. The question arises what this storyline has to do with the title “Singh is King” and a Sikh hero. It simply shows that the Sikh element was roped in to cash on to the Punjabi people (not only Sikhs) living all over the globe. The first half of the movie does has its moments but not in the required quantity. The second half dips down with unwanted love triangle plot and the viewer is left asking for more.
It can be noticed that there are two get ups of Akshay as a Sikh in the movie. One is in the Green turban in the opening where he is looking like a proper Sikh and the second is after this sequence (for rest of the movie), where he is not wearing a proper turban, has a french cut beard and is looking more like a magician. It looks like there was no knowledgeable Sikh person to guide them when they were shooting abroad. And when they understood the mistake they did some reshooting again for the opening sequence of the movie. Intelligently the promos also feature Akshay in the proper get up only which was rightly done by the team.
Performance wise Akshay is fine as a villager and the don. He starts the movie with his perfect comedy but loses the track in the later reels. He has very few funny lines to say & for that the script writer and the director has to be blamed severely. You will miss the famous Akshay Kumar laughter in the movie which can be found nowhere. Katrina looks ravishing but hasn’t got much to do. Ranvir Shorey is completely miscast and wasted as the loser fiancé. Ompuri and Kiron Kher are ok.
Interestingly there are a large number of talented people who are simply wasted in the movie like Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffery, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Khayali and Sonu Sood. All these names are capable of adding more colours to the movie, specially the comedians but they were not given any chance.
Musically, it has few good numbers which are already a hit. But some unwanted songs are also there like “Bhootni Ke”. Surprisingly Daler Mehndi’s voice in this track was missing in the movie. Preetam always manages to give few hits in all his scores, which is good for him but may be not for the movie this time.
The director, Aneez Bazmee seems to be missing the train this time. It looks like he was in so much hurry to make this film that he forgot to work on the script and on the entertainment quotient. This time, his direction lacks the perfect comic timing which we have seen in his last few ventures. May be he relied too much on the crowd pulling power of Akshay Kumar and on the solid strong title.
In the end I would like to say that I was feeling completely unsatisfied after watching the movie as it had a misleading title which had nothing to do with the film. Moreover it failed to entertain as per the huge expectations. But the film will definitely get a huge opening that’s for sure. And I will also not be surprised if the film is declared a hit because we have seen some mediocre film working in the past too.
Rating : 2 / 5
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Its out of my understanding that how on earth,
Taran Adarsh gave this movie a 4 star rating.
It forces me to believe favoutism and backing up in the reviewing business also.
Come on Grow up man!.
Atlease be honest to yourself Taran……
Who ever wrote this review was NOT paid by Akshay Kumar unlike Taran Adarsh. This review is good and truthful.
akshay needs a priyadarshan…who will copy a south hit and remake it in hindi to make a hit again!!
Great review Bobby. Wow, we have the review on FK even before Friday in India, good job Bobby.
Do you think the movie will be great grosser like OSO?
Thought the movie was good fun. Not for those looking for serious cinema. It might break oso records due to high number of prints.
Bobby Cheers !!!
Well never go with Taran’s review he rates all comeerical movies 4 star,bt they turn differently
Master we need to wait for more reviews
No, I dont think it will be a great grosser, but will get a heavy initial though due to the hype generated.
thanx for the early review Bobby . the promos werer quite lame and considering they r best parts it was a given fact film would be worse .
Taran or others giving a good review was a given considering how they were raving about it even before release. this happens with most big films now . if one starts giving a good review its get recycled and all will ahev similar reviews and rating and quite opposite for ones with negative reviews.
I think Singh is King will be big flop when i saw the first show yesterday many spectator told the movie also diasaster movie also lost the time and money.
Please don’t see the Movie Singh is King if you save your time and money see the movie jane to ya this is great movie
Akshey Acting is Third Class in the movie this movie should send to Municipality Dustbin.
Sing is King is Diasaster movie nobody like that if who see the one time next he would not be come.
Akshey Acting is Third Class in the movie this movie should send to Municipality Dustbin.
Another Bekaar movie of the 2008
If Aksey is King
Srk is a God of King
1000,00,00,00 Akshey = Srk
BobbySingh,
Good honesdt review.
I was really dissapointed looking at the promos and songs.They were dull.Now that you have given your review,i will cancel my plans for wasting 1000 bucks on Sunday.
I will plan somethingelese rather.
…fulck you Bobby, you are jelouse this review is v. good / it is 5 star, you can not work like taran, even taran eat one star
Bobbysingh,
Fab review…..
“The question arises what this storyline has to do with the title “Singh is King” and a Sikh hero. It simply shows that the Sikh element was roped in to cash on to the Punjabi people (not only Sikhs) living all over the globe. ”
a very good point from u Bobby….
“he forgot to work on the script ”
When was the last time Anees worked on the script?
I get irriateted when the bombard the fucking Punjabi musis in to ears.
Its fucking so irritating(The punjabi Music)So loud and disguting.
hey guys not any review is good
awesome review i told u don’t go TARAN reviews dear
bobby tell me what do u think was OSO better than SIK??? i mean OSO wasn’t that gr8 bt was a good movie…what u say about it? u seems 2 be a thoughtful guy
akki2 here is being bombed off…
Our industry sud hv to knw tat Real Singhs r always Real Kings, so wen Akki is nt real singh thn how cud his film bcm da king of bollywud films…
in two wrds
Tashan 2
totally money wastage, no screenplay, no comedy, no acting, no coustom, no editing, total nonsense………..
Don_mansoor
OSO was very entertaining much more than Singh Is King.
If this becomes an all time blockbuster then it will be right to say that,
“You can sell anything in India creating the right hype”
Good one bobby…..i have always appreciated ur works..u hv tremendous sense of filmi knowledge…
i was also excited to see SIK as u can feel the hype generated before the release…and also because of akshay kumar as sadly he has been touted as king of bollywood so i wanted to c this film….
firstly i wud like to say that i m not an anti akki….i review a film based on overall performance…..
and my friends …..this film sucks big time….first half an hour is okay….and the remaining 1.5 hrs is total bakwas….
where is the script..wat r they (vipul shah & annes bazmee) trying to make…..just to cash in name of akki and punjabi factors…..rubbish….after coming out of cinema hall…i was regretting my intention….
i think that how long akki will survive in this cruel industry doing same repeatative comic scenes…how long.. ????
from now onwards every new movie will create some new records in one or the other….just watch and seecopycat priyadarshan next remake of a mallu hit…with akshay,paresh…
this review is so true..bang on!!