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.
