Singham

It is always said that a movie with a good first half, but a below average second half drowns even a good movie, an average first half with an elevating second half results in good business, and a good first half with an amazing second half results in a classic.

Even though Singham is about to breach 100 crore mark, it falls in the second category. It retells the age old story of good v/s bad.

This genre was extensively over used by movie makers through 70’s to 90’s, and even before and after that. The problem that used to be with these kind of movies was, that the hero after fighting a near lost battle with the villains and defecting them, still used to take a bullet or two in the chest during climax, but didn’t forget to educate the people around and babbles about duty or the bad effects of ‘System’ with an unbelievably sad and intolerable background music and a lot of crying character artists added with a bangle breaking heroin.

Jokes apart, the setting of such a movie became too predictable to tolerate. But Rohit Shetty reintroduced the same with Singham, but he made sure to make appropriate changes. The director took his sweet time to build the story, and during the time put all the light moments in the narrative, however the quality of humor during this section is questionable, still there is no denying to the fact that the drama starts unfolding with the very first interaction of the villain and the protagonist. The director has relied equally on action and heavy duty dialogue delivery for both Ajay Devgan and Prakash Raj. Each of their confrontation gives you a rush of adrenalin. Post interval portions are high point of the movie; however the best part of the story for me was fact that due to the stress and uncooperativeness of his own people the character of Bajirao Singham, tries to get help from politicians, even thinks about quitting the job, he gives signs of not being a super human, who can fight any thing, its only after he regains the confidence that he starts his battle with the bad guy. However the climax of the movie was a let down, what happens there is simply idiotic to accept by any reasonable man. Taking nothing away from the director, I would have liked a better thought after finale. 

Ajay Devgans excel in the role, but the best performance comes from Prakash Raj, only thing is that you can not differentiate his style from ‘Wanted’ or ‘Buddha hoga tera baap’, still you enjoy this actor. For me the surprise package was Sachin Khedekar, his comic timing is astonishing in the movie; the director has used the ring tone of his mobile to create repetitive laughter.

All together a decent movie to watch with your family, although I know most of you have already seen this movie.

Rating ***.