8-8-8 (8-8-2008)

The deadliest date for some and lickiest  date for few. Many people had eyes on this date for different reasons. Few had fear, few had faith. Sports buff were waiting for it due to Olympics….. and we…. the madly-in-love-with-bollywood crowd…. we were waiting for it due to this years most awaited movie…. Singh is Kinng!

Of course it had to be awaited…. because… it is Akshay Kumar’s Tribute to his community. It is his 2nd attempt after “Namastey London” to win the international market. It is from the producer of “Namastey London” and Director of “Welcome”…. 2 of the biggest hits of 2007 from Akshay Kumar. Not but the least, its lead pair is most successfull actor and actress of 2007. So the expectations are sky high.

Billion Dollar question is: Are those fulfilled?

That’s why I am hear for. To give you the insight of the movie. To help if decide whether or not you shall spend your hard earned money and precious time on this flick.

So whats the story? Actually its something I had not expected (I should stop building my own stories after watching promos), but whatever they offered is full roller coaster ride of fun (fulltoo), thrill(few) and emotions (enough). All this together, they provide a proper bollywood nautanki. The good part is they were clear about their vision and they succeeded getting it on silver screen.

The story of the nautanki goes somewhat like this:

Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood) is from same”Pind” i.e. village as Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar). The most common thing in them is they both are hated by their community and people but for total different reasons. Lucky Singh is King of Underworld in Australia. He is Don of Dons. He is disliked in his village as he has defamed his Sikh Community and his village. On the other hand Happy Singh is disliked due to his extra helpfullness. He is always trying to help others but does a greater damage in the process. So he becomes kind of headache to the fellow villagers.

So his friend Rangila (Om Puri) devises a plan to get him out of the village by blackmailing him to volunteer into the cause of getting Lucky Singh back from his vinoumous journey to nowhere but death. Happy easily gets trapped but he also brings in Rangila with him in the journey.

What happens next is the story of the movie… which is quiet unusual headless comedy, so go enjoy it personally.

Let’s first talk about promotion of the movie. I must congratulate Vipul Amrutlal Shah for his faith in his product and putting so much money on promotion. Apart from that he deserves appaluse for the production values, great unseen locales and of course his endearing support to Akki in becoming the new Super Star of Indian Movies.

Then comes the second pat on the deserving back of the director, Anees Bazmee. From “No Entry” to “Welcome” to “Singh is Kinng”, Anees is climbing success ladde. Congratulations to him for pulling of another headless comedy so well.

On the music side, Pritam (Singh?) Chakroborti has given another smash hit album for Akshay Kumar. The Title track is already topping the charts followed by the “Jee Karda” track picturised on marvelous locations of egypt with santilatting, sensuous Katrina Kaif dancing to the great thumpy tune with the Punjabi Munda Akki. The 2 million rupees SnoopDog and Akki song is used unfortunately at the end titles. End title video songs are so much hard to watch properly with 80% of audience standing to leave the cinema hall. What a waste!

Cinematography is awe inspiring. The action scenes are breath taking. Choreography is inspiring. Screen play is taught and the dialogs are hillerious, emotional and hard hitting where needed.

Covering all the other departments above, I had left the best part for the end and that is performances. Akshay Kumar leads the all other talented lot. He performance both the villager part and the Kinngs part with elane. Katrina Kaif compliments him perfectly. Kirron Kher is excellent. Sonu Sood is outstanding. He has got the most meaty action scene of the movie and that will help him grab some more A+ class movies. There are many other characters and each has significant and sufficient screen time even the movie is just over 2 hours. Ranvir Shorey succeeds in impressing again. Neha Dhupia is able to attract all the eyeballs on her despite presence of the another Kat. She does her job well.

So the thorn has been bestowed upon the Kinng finally! Akki is King… New international superstar of bollywood. I hope with “Chandi Chauk to China”, he becomes true flagbeerer of Global Bollywood Movies. I pray for him and bollywood.

BR Rating: ***1/2
BR Verdict: Very Good!s
BR Recommends: Watch it with full family and friends. Get mad with the comic rollercoster ride.

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