Desi Galaxy

Bollywood has a tradition of following the trends. Once a movie with romantic theme becomes popular you would see every one making a romantic film. In recent years Hera Pheri sat a trend of comedy movies and got many more movies with similar themes including a sequel to Hera Pheri.

Sikh community has been ridiculed a lot in jokes and also in Hindi cinema as part of comic relief. But it was Akshay who decided to tribute to the simplicity of Sikh life style. So he did and became the king. So is it like another lucky charm for Bollywood machos or real big support to the neglected community. These days Sikhs are the new trend, and soon we will be seeing lots of movies with Sikh main characters in them.

Saif Ali Khan’s Home production picks Imtiaz Ali because he recently gave a big block buster “Jab we met” and Imtiaz decided to give Saif a new avatar of Sardarji; only in some flash back sequences. Saif is also pairing new sizzling Deepika Padukone in this film for the first time; so, all
demanding and desirable elements are captured in the film.

The Sikh Turban is becoming the hottest trend and people will soon watch Salman Khan playing a sardar in Samir Karnik’s multi starrer “Heroes” and would have been nice to watch the fairy-face hot actor Ranbir Kapoor who is also ready to play a sardar in Shimit Amit’s next flick.

In an interview Akshay mentioned about the backdrop of ‘Singh is King’ that how the project started. He read the line “singh is King” behind a rickshaw (a three wheeler) once and liked it and later on we can see how the whole idea emerged into the movie. Now the success of other movies following the Singh trend depends on how other work on their
ideas to emerge as a hit movie.

We want to see a lot, we want our heroes to do our dream projects, but the audience does not always get what they desire. It is every hindi movie lover’s desire to watch Aamir Khan the Mr. Perfectionist and Shahrukh Khan together in a movie. In a love triangle, a romantic comedy, or some historical epic. Whatever the theme is audience want to see them together in a movie, and just imagine the market worth of the movie. It would be definitely a very huge investment and producers would get back atleast half of their money even before the release of the movie.

Shahrukh Khan is all set to his “Temptation Reloaded” in Germany. Shahrukh khan is desperate to make the tour a hit and is extra guarded as the Bachans “Unforgettable Tour” ended up receiving a mixed response by the audience. Hence SRK is not in mood to take chances, other stars who are expected to join this tour are Priyanka, Arjun Rrampal, Rani Mukherjee and some undisclosed names. Lets see who would be in King Khan Clan this time.

Are two khans ready to work together?

The news made the hype that Shahrukh khan has called upon Aamir Khan to join him during the show, as he has not been able to secure in any other big name for the show other than himself (if he would not have a recent fight with Salman Khan). But Kiddy khan has declined the rumors that indicated him to be a part of SRK’s much anticipated world tour “Temptations Reloaded”. Aamir also denied being the part of the sequel to Raj Kumar Santoshi’s hit Andaz Apna Apna.

The much awaited film of the year 2008 “Singh is Kinng” hits the doors of box office and creating waves. The goers who are planning to watch the comedy flick just keep it in their minds that to watch such a comedy film one has to keep brains behind before fastening the seat belts. ”Singh is King” is full time Paisa Vasool and fun filled joy ride with all the ingredients. 

It is a story of two Sikh Characters Happy and Lucky, accidentally Happy becomes the king of crime in Australia, and now it is the duty of Happy from the Village in Punjab to bring back the innocent Lucky back from the world of crime. Did he succeed you would only know after watching the movie. 

Bollywood’s most demanding and hit couple Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif  paired in this Punjabi happy drama “Singh is King”. The elements which really made this film a hit were chemistry between Akki and Kat, Akshay as Lucky the village guy with his naiveness, falling in love with Kat who is studying criminology, and trying to rescue the innocence Happy. 

Akshay as usual performed very well, his character is little exaggerated but he did justice to his role. This is Katrina’s sixth continuous hit and she looked gorgeous and sexy in the film, Kat is improving day by day with each new film, Neha Dhopia is looking sexy in her outfits and she did a good job. Sono Sood also did well and now he is entering the “A” class film with short characters. Om Puri is excellent in his get up and dialogue delivery so as Kirron Kher.  

Pritam really did a good job in directing music, there are a variety of songs,  different numbers with different feelings. ‘Bhotni ke’ is really a funny number and succeeds to bring laughs on viewers faces, ‘Teri Oar’ is a melodious number with the flavor of romance in it, ‘Jee karda’ is upbeat, overall the music is good party scores and the tracks are DJs favorite in parties these days. The surprise is first time Aksay also sang in this film. 

Directed by  Anees Bazmi, a film overall very slick, the first half of the film is a lot of fun and very much entertaining with all the punches and timing for the comedy, and definitely with an interesting story line. Some scenes are hilarious like when Akki is chasing the hen or scenes between Akshay and Ompuri. Besides second half of a film is more drama with touch of emotions (very much desi Indian style) in it but it contrasts with first half, and with an abrupt ending. 

Just few more things which can not bring down the status of the film but Rranbir Shorey is badly used, Javed Jaffery’s item song was not needed, and even in the film Mr. Aazmi could use more of the same chemistry of Akshay and Ompuri in the second half of the film also to bring more punches and lightness for audience to laugh.  

Direction is good in first half but the second half was like the director was in hurry to complete the film.On the whole it’s a worth seeing film and for Akshay’s fans it is strongly recommended film.

For Shahrukh Khan fans here is a round up of what Shahrukh is up to:
Shahrukh Khan will be playing Dr. Jones in the Hindi rip off of famous hollywood Indiana Jones series. He will be playing the role of an archeologist in search of a lost treasure.

Shahrukh Khan will start his world tour Temptation Reloaded 2008 in October. The tour will begin from Berlin, Germany. Desipite the war between Salman and Shahrukh Khan, Salman’s girlfriend “>Katrina Kaif will be taking part in the tour.

For all those Shahrukh Khan fans who were thinking about buying the actor’s biography. Here is the link to the book on Amazon:
Shahrukh Khan Still Reading Khan.