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| Singh Is Kinng Movie
Review |
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Music :
Pritam |
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Lyrics :
Mayur Puri |
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Direction :
Anees Bazmee |
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Producer :
Vipul
Shah |
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Leading Cast :
Akshay
Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffrey, Kamal
Chopra, |
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Manoj Pahwa, Yashpal Sharma, Kiron Kher, Ranvir Shorey, Om
Puri |
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A Punjabi munda becomes a jolly-natured Australian
goonda in this absolute no-brainer entertainer that
rides on the firm shoulders of the enigmatic and
hilarious Akshay Kumar.
Singh Is Kinng begins in Australia but the movie
actually takes off a few reels later in a Punjab
village when the protagonist Happy Singh is
introduced. Akshay stands like a scarecrow,
clenching the corners of his kurta sleeves and
flashing that million-dollar gummy grin that makes
the whole cinema hall reverberate with wolf whistles
from the audiences. That’s the moment you know the
king is in the house and that everything from hereon
would be Happy. |
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So it turns out for the first half of this crazy
comedy by Anees Bazmee, the man who directed Welcome
and No Entry. Bazmee’s over-the-top comedies are
known to have a blatant disregard for sense, style
and subtlety. ‘Singh Is Kinng’ is no different. With
its many contrived twists and turns – and not to
forget its outlandish characters – the movie doesn’t
ask you to use your brain, nor does it proclaim to
have one itself. It is a film that doesn’t take
itself seriously and it tries every |
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recipe in the book of entertainment to give you
laughs worth your money spent. The movie works in the first
half, flounders a bit in the second, but makes up for the
glitches by the end with a big fat ostentatious Punjabi
wedding gone wrongly right Down Under.
Balle Balle, Shava Shava.
Happy Singh (Akshay) is a good-natured, helpful sardar who
becomes a sar dard for his village because all his attempts
to help someone inevitably create a mess for many others. To
get rid of him, the villagers send him on a mission to
reform and bring back Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood), the village’s
prodigal son-turned-don in Australia who has brought much
disrepute to his community back home.
Along with his friend Rangeela (Om Puri), a confident Happy
embarks on his mission, ends up boarding a wrong flight and
lands up in Egypt where he falls head-over-heels in love
with Sonia (Katrina Kaif). It’s a love that remains
unreciprocated.
Anyway, Happy proceeds to his mission in OZ, walks into the
mansion of don Lucky Singh only to be thrown out on the
streets until a motherly rose-shop owner (Kiron Kher) gives
him food and shelter. An undaunted Happy refuses to abort
his mission. But before he could reform Lucky, an unexpected
twist of events lands the underworld king into a wheelchair
and Happy Singh on the throne of the king. |
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Thereafter, the new king turns the whole functioning
of the underworld upside down. Charity and
compassion replace coercion and kidnapping. And the
don’s henchmen end up getting new duties – like
cutting vegetables in kitchen (instead of chopping
heads) or watering flowers in the garden (instead of
drowning their foes).
The first half of ‘Singh Is Kinng’ goes by breezily. |
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However, the second half becomes a drag when Sonia
(Katrina Kaif) re-enters Happy’s life with her boyfriend
Puneet (Ranvir Shorey). Happy and his henchmen maintain a
false façade and try to get the lovers married. But then,
Sonia falls in love with Happy.
The comedy in the second hour becomes a tad too deliberate
as Bazmee adopts a no-holds-barred approach and pulls every
possible string and tries every available trick to make the
film funny. The songs by Pritam are definitely funky and
worth a Bhangra, but ‘Talli Hua’ could easily be axed from
the flick.
‘Singh Is Kinng’ works primarily because of Akshay Kumar,
the charming and charismatic superstar who bowls you over
with his comic flair and his magnetic screen presence. It is
hard to imagine any other actor playing the bumbling village
bumpkin with such aplomb. Akshay’s Happy Singh is a proud
Sikh with a funny bone for self-deprecatory humour.
Needless to say, Katrina looks in her elements opposite him,
playing a law student who hates nothing more than criminals
but eventually ends up falling for a good-natured don.
Om Puri gets a few punchy lines but his comic prowess hasn’t
been tapped optimally. Sonu Sood is confined to a wheelchair
for the most part of his role while Ranvir Shorey is
effectively repulsive as the cocky boyfriend of Katrina.
Javed Jaffrey is over-the-top. Kiron Kher isn’t her usual
charming self.
In a nutshell, Singh Is Kinng is partly a rom-com and partly
an ode to the proud Sikh community.
Leave your brains home and this movie will make you HAPPY. |
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Rating: 3/5 |
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