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Rating ****/*****Starring- Ajay devgan Kajal AggarwalProduced by Reliance Entertainment
Written by Sajid – Farhad
Screenplay by Yunus Sajawal
Story by Hari
Starring Ajay Devgan
Kajal Aggarwal
Prakash Raj
Music by Ajay-Atul
Cinematography Dudley
Editing by Steven H. Bernard
Distributed by Reliance Entertainment
Release date(s)
22 July 2011
Running time 142 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget INR20 crore (US$3.1 million)
Box office INR140 crore (US$21 million)
Singham (English translation: Lion) is a 2011 Bollywood action film directed by Rohit Shetty, starring Ajay Devgan, Kajal Aggarwal and Prakash Raj in lead roles. It is a remake of the 2010 Tamil blockbuster Singam featuring Suriya and Anushka Shetty. The film is produced under Reliance Entertainment, which co-produced the original Tamil movie. The theatrical trailer was released with Ready on 3 June 2011. The film released on 22 July 2011, and received extremely good response worldwide. It turned out to be a Blockbuster at the box office, and became one of the highest grossing movies of 2011.
Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Character Map of Remakes
4 Production
5 Release
6 Reception
6.1 Critical reception
6.2 Box office
7 Soundtrack
7.1 Track listing
7.2 Reception
8 Controversies
8.1 Protests in Karnataka
9 Sequel
10 References
11 External links
Singham opens with an honest police officer in Goa, Rakesh Kadam (Sudhanshu Pandey), committing suicide because of false accusations of corruption by Jaikant Shikre (Prakash Raj), a don and politician in Goa running a kidnapping racket. Kadam's wife Megha Kadam (Sonali Kulkarni) vows revenge.
The story moves to Shivgarh, a small village near the Goa-Maharashtra border. Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgan), an honest Maratha police inspector like Kadam, is in charge of the Shivgarh police station. He resolves most of the problems in his town informally and without filing charge sheets, thereby gaining much reputation and love from the villagers. Gautam Bhosle ("Gotya," Sachin Khedekar) is an industrialist and a friend of Singham’s father Manikrao Singham (Govind Namdeo). He comes to Shivgarh with his wife and daughter Kavya (Kajal Aggarwal). Eventually Singham and Kavya fall in love with each other. Their courtship takes place through a series of comic events where she initially hates him and then has a change of heart when she sees his honest and simple nature.
Everything seems to run smoothly until Jaikant, who is given a conditional bail for a murder he committed, is required to travel to Shivgarh to sign the bail every fortnight. He, instead, sends one of his allies to do the formalities, much to the anger and rage of Singham who demands Jaikant sign the bail in person. Humiliated, Jaikant reaches Shivgarh but is unable to take any revenge on Singham fearing the wrath of villagers. Using his political contacts, he gets Singham transferred to Goa to take revenge.
Singham, unaware of Jaikant’s hand behind his transfer, joins Colva police station. His co-workers, Sub-Inspector Phadnis (Vineet Sharma), Sub-Inspector Abbas (Ankur Nayyar), Head Constable Savalkar (Ashok Saraf) hate Jaikant for his crimes but are unable to take any action because of Jaikant’s political powers. DSP Patkar (Murli Sharma), Singham's senior, is on Jaikant's payroll and takes care in concealing and eliminating the evidence of Jaikant’s crime from the eyes of the law. Singham tries to take this to the notice of DGP Vikram Pawar (Pradeep Velankar) but it turns out to be of no use as there is no evidence against Jaikant and Patkar. The local minister Anant Narvekar (Anant Jog) does not help Singham and, in turn, he warns him to stay away from Jaikant's case. Defeated Singham wants to return to his hometown but is stopped by Kavya who encourage him to fight against the evil and not run like a coward.
Being mentally tortured by Jaikant, Singham arrests Jaikant’s top lieutenant Shiva (Ashok Samarth) in a fake case of illegally smuggling alcohol. He thwarts off DSP Patkar in full view of the public when Patkar, bounded by his duties to Jaikant, tries to protect Shiva. Meanwhile, Megha Kadam, after being ridiculed by DGP Pawar and minister Narvekar for her corrupt husband’s death, seeks help from Singham to abolish the corruption charges against her husband; he obliges. Jaikant kidnaps Kavya’s younger sister for ransom. Rescuing her, Singham successfully traces the origins of the kidnapping racket to Jaikant but is unable to arrest him as he wins an election and becomes a minister of Goa.
Jaikant, sends transfer orders to Singham to go back to Shivgarh. That night at a police function organized for the officers with their family, Singham confronts the officers for not abiding to their duties and being dishonest and unfaithful to their profession by protecting Jaikant. Filled with guilt, the officers decide to help Singham fight Jaikant. They reach his home to kill him, with DGP Pawar and Patkar, now in support with Singham. Jaikant eventually escapes but, after running through the city, he is arrested by the police the next morning. They bring him to the police station and shoot him dead on the same chair where Inspector Rakesh Kadam shot himself. Then they threaten Shiva to change his statement. Jaikant and Minister Narvekar are proved guilty. At a media conference, DGP Pawar and Singham clear Kadam of all corruption charges.
The film ends with Singham and other police officers saluting Mrs. Kadam.
Cast[edit]
Ajay Devgan as Inspector Bajirao Singham
Kajal Aggarwal as Kavya Bhosle
Prakash Raj as Jaikant Shikre
Murli Sharma as DSP Patkar
Ashok Samarth as Shiva Naik (Jaikant Shikre's right hand)
Sachin Khedekar as Gautam Bhosle / Gotya
Ashok Saraf as Head Constable Savalkar
Sudhanshu Pandey as Inspector Rakesh Kadam
Govind Namdeo as Manikrao Singham
Sonali Kulkarni as Megha Kadam
Anant Jog as Minister Anant Narvekar
Ankur Nayyar as Inspector Abbas
Vijay Patkar as Havaldar Kelkar
Suchitra Bandekar as Mrs. Bhosle
Sana Amin Sheikh as Anjali Bhosle
Kishore Nandlaskar as Peon of Minister