Cast: Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Mahesh
Manjrekar, Amol Gupte, Anupam Kher, Zakir Hussain, Dayanand Shetty, Sharat Saxena,
Pankaj Tripathi, Ganesh Yadav, Ashwini Kalsekar
Director: Rohit Shetty Writer: Farhad, Sajid, Yunus Sajawal, Rohit
Shetty
Music: Ankit Tewari, Jeet Gangulli, Meet Bros
Anjjan, Yo Yo Honey Singh
Running Time: 145 minutes
This movie celebrates the successful actor-director
partnership of Ajay Devgn-Rohit Shetty and the Mumbai Police. Of course, the
movie has a good enough storyline and a popular heroine. But, in spite of being
substantial, they haze out in the aforesaid celebration. Also, it is one of the
very sequels, which is better (also read original) than it’s prequel i.e. ‘Singham’!
Instead of a core story, there is a core villain
Satyaraj Baba (Amol Gupte), who is a religious preacher with enough power and
clout, enabling him to have a substantial say in the functioning of the ruling
political party! In contrast to him, there is Guruji (Anupam Kher), the party
mentor, who is a man of principles and enjoys great respect of Mumbai DCP (Ajay Devgn), as well as the Maharashtra CM (Sanjay Manjrekar). Guruji’s
strategy of introducing new and young candidates for the upcoming elections is
not well received by Baba. While Guruji perceives their enthusiasm,
professional training and capability as the door to better functioning of the
new government, and thereby better living of the common man, Baba cares a damn
about any of this and worries about loosing constituencies, in the absence of
old and popular candidates. Soon Guruji gets assassinated by masked and heavily
armed professionals. Alongside, a van is found in a river body, along with a
dead driver and crores of rupees. The dead driver is a trusted subordinate of
Bajirao. Both these events and their repercussions instigate the super cop in Bajirao
and he goes into full fledged investigations, interrogations, arrests and
secret follow-ups, so as to obtain enough proof to – a) arrest Baba, and b)
clear his subordinate’s name.
The movie has good energy, cool stunts, weak
villain, new but not in tandem storyline, and for a change, it only highlights
the glory of the police force. It highlights - the demanding and risky nature
of their job, unrealistic expectations from an aging cop, thankless attitude of
media and public in general, mass attack protocol (‘lathi’ charge) followed
only in times of sheer crisis and the perennial chance of nullifying of all
their hard work by anyone in ‘power’.
As expected, Ajay Devgn is the ‘Singham’. If he
throws a punch, then it is a real punch and not a make believe one. And he is
particularly good in depicting pain and anger simultaneously through his eyes. Kareena
Kapoor plays his friend cum girlfriend (Avni), runs a beauty parlour and is
supposed to eat like a glutton. She has well experimented with a new style of
comedy. But for the glutton part, you instantly miss the hogging of Aamir Khan
in ‘Rang De Basanti’. You will find Kareena picking on many foods, making
enough face and hand gestures, but her food bites are very small and very few
actually go into her mouth! But she is adorable all the same. Sadly, Kareena
seems to be making the sole attempt in establishing the hero-heroine chemistry!
Amol Gupte has performed well. But you need a much bigger (impactful) villain
for a movie of this caliber. Anupam Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ashwini Kalsekar
(reporter) have small roles and they have done justice to it. Earlier Dayanand
Shetty (cop ‘Daya’) was breaking doors on TV (soap ‘CID’) and now he is doing
the same in films! Like TV, herein too, he has well played the second-in-command.
Zakir Hussain (Prakash Rao) and Pankaj Tripathi (Altaf Khan) have now become
constant with important side roles. Ganesh Yadav (Mahesh Jhadav, the dead cop) and
Sharat Saxena (Shiv Rathod, Mumbai CP) have also acted well.
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