'Singh Saab The Great' review: Sunny Deol back in form




'Singh Saab The Great' review: Sunny Deol    back in form  


















 There is certain thing to be said about that `dhaai kilo ka haath` which Sunny Deol patented in well-made action films like ‘Ghatak’, ‘Ghayal’ and ‘Gadar - Ek Prem Katha’. Lately, his vocation was eclipsed by incorrect alternatives. Maybe, the `haath` (hand) was not in the right location.

Back in pattern with a bang in ‘Singh Saab The Great’, Sunny delivers a wallop. Looking every inch the Sardar in-charge, he furnishes the movie with a flair that is rather engaging. No, he doesn`t wrench off a hand-pump to thrash the goon. But yes, he does turn a static jeep from back to the front with his bare hands.

And estimate what? He looks every bit assuring doing the heroic hijinks in a country absolutely not meant for the feeble and the infirm.

When we first meet Singh Saab (The large) in this non-stop actioner, we are notified by his on-screen aides that Singh has formed a political party called Aam People`s Party. Now, if that reminds you of a certain Kejriwal`s Aam Aadmi Party, then I am sure the resemblance is not coincidental.

God knows, we do need a change in governance and in the rampant corruption in the country. Anil Sharma`s over-zealous though never-misplaced passion to put across Sunny in a messianic mould works to a large extent. The movie is an contemporary, very easily in writing morality tale between an idealistic champion and a villain who directions a backwater village with an conceited ruthlessness that romances decadence and debauchery.

What works well for the film are the powerfully executed confrontational sequences between Sunny and the arch-villain Prakash Raj. While Sunny shows exemplary command in the inherently melodramatic milieu, Prakash Raj endeavours a variation on his stereotypical villainy. He comes up with a character who`s a Bihari goon who can at the fall of a hat, shatter into a recital and dance while executing the sleaziest of deeds and dialogues.

God understands, we need a bit of humour in the decadence.

It`s a cloudy world of compromised morals out there made bearable by larger-than-life champions who know they are up against impossible odds, and yet find a kind of subverted comfort in making their unbelievable hero-giri credible by dint of their powerful computer display images.

Sunny Deol has that kind of a presence. While romancing the signify, he is also adept of infusing instants of goofy tenderness in his scenes with his screen wife, performed by a pretty and reasonably watchable debutante Urvashi Rautela. Their glaring age distinction is also brought to chuckling observe by a script whose USP is its conclusion to not act over-clever while executing an old-fashioned revenge tale.

Amrita Rao struggles to give matter to an under-written role of the narrator and reporter who appears to have only one allotment, to trail Singh Saab (The large) through his crusade against corruption. apparently, she`s prepared to fall in love with the Missionary Man, if only the script would permit her.

You`ve glimpsed the noble bureaucratic champion in different uniforms,take on the corrupt villain in numerous movies. What works in ‘Singh Saab...’ is the way the activity scenes flow in shifts of choreographed contemplation. activity directors Tinu Verma and Kanal Kannan lend a rigour to the narrative.

While the contrive tends to sag under the heaviness of italicized clichés, the twists and turns are discussed by the technicians with plentiful aplomb. The sound conceive is on purpose exaggerated and meant to manipulate instants of machismo. S. Gopinath`s cinematography captures the feverish flourish of men on a rampage with gusto. The art director makes innovative use of rusty-brown hues that loan a bronzed hue to the brawn carnival.

It would be the easiest thing in the world to brush aside Sunny`s spoke heroism as archaic and `loud`.But don`t be hasty in your judgement.

Anil Sharma and Sunny Deol`s combustive force previous yielded the mighty "Gadar...". This time they aspire to the identical grade of dramatic velocity, and succeed to an extent.

There is a virility and fluency to the storytelling. ‘Singh Saab The Great’ is a homage to the movies of the 1980s when Sunny was the daredevil very resolute to bring on a communal restructure. Somewhere, that hero lost his way. It`s good to have him back.

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23 November 2013 at 19:11 ×

nice !

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