There are very few in Hindi film industry today who have a screen presence to match Akshay Kumar. He is probably the only star in Bollywood today who can pull off a solo hit, does not need big banners, can sell masala without pretending to be selling something else and stands just at that boundary line where masses and classes meet. Singh is King is a reaffirmation of all this, if not anything else.
Anees Bazmee-Akshay Kumar-Katrina Kaif's last venture, Welcome, was such a crap that it took me some days to recover from it. They have returned with a good entertainer in Singh is King. I guess Bazmee has learned his lesson that having something called a story actually helps. Not that this film has a great script but it does stick and does not fall off right away. Add to it some good casting - Om Puri, Javed Jaffrey, Neha Dhupia, Kiron Kher and Ranvir Sheorey, among others - and you have some good entertainment in your hands.
Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) is a simple, kind-hearted lad from a village in Punjab. He makes a choice to travel to Australia to bring back his friend from the village who has become a gangster. On his way he meets Sonia (Katrina Kaif) who he falls in love with. The rest of the story is about how he gets his friend and his gang back to their village and how he gets his girl.
Akshay Kumar's comic timing is well known now and he is no different as Happy Singh. Om Puri is his perfect foil in the film. Katrina looks ravishingly beautiful in each frame that she is in. The music is predominantly bhangra, except for a slow romantic number picturized in the backdrop of the pyramids of Egypt. There is a Snoop Dog hip-hop item at the end credits.
Singh is King is a fun film which I'm sure will keep cash registers ringing for its producers this monsoon.
Anees Bazmee-Akshay Kumar-Katrina Kaif's last venture, Welcome, was such a crap that it took me some days to recover from it. They have returned with a good entertainer in Singh is King. I guess Bazmee has learned his lesson that having something called a story actually helps. Not that this film has a great script but it does stick and does not fall off right away. Add to it some good casting - Om Puri, Javed Jaffrey, Neha Dhupia, Kiron Kher and Ranvir Sheorey, among others - and you have some good entertainment in your hands.
Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) is a simple, kind-hearted lad from a village in Punjab. He makes a choice to travel to Australia to bring back his friend from the village who has become a gangster. On his way he meets Sonia (Katrina Kaif) who he falls in love with. The rest of the story is about how he gets his friend and his gang back to their village and how he gets his girl.
Akshay Kumar's comic timing is well known now and he is no different as Happy Singh. Om Puri is his perfect foil in the film. Katrina looks ravishingly beautiful in each frame that she is in. The music is predominantly bhangra, except for a slow romantic number picturized in the backdrop of the pyramids of Egypt. There is a Snoop Dog hip-hop item at the end credits.
Singh is King is a fun film which I'm sure will keep cash registers ringing for its producers this monsoon.