Singham Movie Review: Punjabi Mania present before you the full movie review of recently released Punjabi movie titled ‘Singham’.
Cast: Parmish Verma, Kartar Cheema, Sonam Bajwa, Deep Joshi, Samuel John, Prakash Gadhu, Anita Devgan, Hardeep Gill, Raj Dhaliwal, Jarnail Singh, Gurpreet Bhangu and others.
Director: Navaniat Singh.
Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak.
Music: Desi Crew.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller.
Running Time: 147 minutes (U/A certified).
Singham Movie Review
Since 2011, the meaning of ‘Singham’ comes with a by default condition of over-the-top and at times, unconvincing action sequences. The Punjabi remake of the super-hit Hindi movie also encompasses the aforementioned. If the same distracts you, this movie isn’t for you.
For the others, the Punjabi remake undoubtedly has it in it to be watched in the cinema halls. Singham is a sincere effort whose results are evident on the screen. The movie starts on an affirmative note portraying the illegal mining business of Mining Mafia Kaura Singh Bhullar (Kartar Cheema).
“Asi khabran padhan aale nahin, khabran banaun aale han [We don’t read news. We create them],” Bhullar says in the beginning after killing Mining officer Satnam Singh (Daljinder Basran). The dialogue is one among the many intriguing dialogues delivered authoritatively by Bhullar in the movie.
The movie then introduces a newly recruit DSP Dilsher Singh (Parmish Verma) who takes charge in his own village Singham Khurd. An epitome of an honest police officer, all of Dilsher’s initial work takes place around Nikki Singla (Sonam Bajwa). While it speaks highly of his professional life, it ends up impressing the girl.
Direction and writing
Director Navaniat Singh and screenplay and dialogue writer Dheeraj Rattan have delivered another successful performance. If the first half comprises a couple of weak points, the second half makes up for it. The fact that the 147-minute Punjabi movie doesn’t look like a drag in itself signifies about the good work done on it.
This review would be incomplete without throwing light on action director Pradyuman Kumar Swain. There are two ways to look at it – a) action of such a scale hasn’t been attempted in the Punjabi industry in the past and b) the reason mentioned in the first paragraph.
Had some technical aspects regarding the action been of a better quality, it would have come out even better on the screen than it actually did. Talking of technicalities, there were other parts where the movie seemed diluted. But the Budget of Bollywood and Punjabi Films has a huge gap so some things can be understood.
DOP Harmeet Singh was found wanting of shooting too many close-ups especially during Dilsher and Bhullar’s vital confronting scenes. The original Hindi Film had a lot of wide angle sequences which looked good.
Most of the heavy scenes included in the trailer were over by the interval. While the same built curiosity regarding what would follow (and how), it was commendable on Navaniat’s part to successfully attempt it.
Acting
Into his third movie, there is no hiding to the fact that Parmish Verma has improved across departments with each one of them. One must also mention that there is still a room for improvement as far as the actor in him is concerned.
Kartar Cheema delivering two praiseworthy performances in consecutive weeks tells you enough about his craft especially in the action genre. Been in the industry for over a decade now, it is high time for him to receive more such roles.
In a movie such as Singham, the actress has hardly much to do than look beautiful. As far as that is concerned, Sonam Bajwa did it at will. The decision of giving the role of SHO Amit Sehgal to Deep Joshi emerged as a successful one. Much like Cheema, one also feels that Joshi has been devoid of meatier roles in the Punjabi industry.
Among other actors who left an impact were Samuel John (Bishan Singh aka Bishna), Gurpreet Toti (Addi Chak), Raj Dhaliwal (Komal), Parkash Gadhu (Munshi Sewa Singh), Sardar Sohi (MLA Sartaj Singh), Hardeep Gill (Munshi Tejinder Singh) and Anita Devgan (Neelam).
Music
Contrary to even the best of Punjabi movies, Singham didn’t have forced songs in it. Knowing that there wasn’t much scope for adding them, the makers didn’t add them and rightly so.
Among the songs present in the movie, ‘Demand’ is worth listening to. However, the best of the lot was the recreated version of late Kulwinder Dhillon’s ‘Kalli Kite Mil’.
Final verdict
As touched upon earlier, Singham will not let you down as a movie. Individual performances from Parmish Verma, Kartar Cheema and director Navaniat Singh have it in them for you to watch the movie.
