One of the most over-hyped movies in recent times, the unimaginatively and abominably named 'Singh is Kinng' (Wats wit the extra 'n' seriously??! That doesnt make a 'good' film! A good script does!), released day before....Here's two facets of this so-called movie...
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Here's wat critic-unparalleled Rajeev Masand had to say about SIK (or rathr SICK!) on IBN....
Masand's Verdict: Singh is Kinng, a dead comedy **
Most films can be divided into two broad categories - those that aim to entertain an audience, and those that have been produced with the sole purpose of making money. As far as I’m concerned, Singh Is Kinng is not so much a film as it is a clever money-making racket.
I know that people who make films shouldn’t be made to feel guilty about wanting to earn money from them - I agree with that completely. My problem is with people whose only objective for making films is to make money - they could be in the construction business, they could be manufacturing cigarettes, but they just happen to be making movies for a living. My problem is with those guys.
Singh Is Kinng is a film that has little or no regard for its audience. It’s the kind of movie whose makers couldn’t care less if you hated the film, fell asleep during the film, left the film in twenty minutes, or collapsed from a stroke midway through the film. They only care about the fact that you paid your two hundred bucks and bought your ticket. To hell with you after that.
I understand all filmmakers don’t want to change the world - they don’t want to make message movies like Swades or Lage Raho Munnabhai. They probably don’t want to address issues either. I get that. But how can a filmmaker not care about engaging his viewer - how can he not care if his audience is entertained or not? If you’re making what you describe as a comedy, shouldn’t you want the audience to laugh? The makers of Singh Is Kinng simply don’t care.
What better example of their indifference than the fact that they make a movie that they claim celebrates the spirit of being a Sikh, and yet they completely disregard the most basic detail of Sikh identity - how can your Sikh characters sport turbans but not full beards?
We’ve all seen enough films by director Anees Bazmee to know that we shouldn’t expect very much in terms of plot, and Singh Is Kinng is no different. Akshay Kumar plays Happy Singh, a bumbling do-gooder in a nameless village in Punjab, who manages to offend his friends and neighbours with his knack for causing trouble.
No wonder they pack him off to Australia with the responsibility of bringing back another Singh - underworld kingpin Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood, that is) who has tainted the reputation of their village and their community by his infamous deeds. Once there, by a strange hand of fate - the kind you can only expect in Anees Bazmee films - Lucky Singh slips into a coma-like state and Happy Singh is put in charge of his gang.
Not only does the new King set about reforming this motley group of criminals, he also falls head over heels in love with pretty-but-vacuous Sonia (played by Katrina Kaif) who sadly is already committed.
Singh Is Kinng is the kind of film whose screenplay is constructed almost entirely on the basis of silly coincidences and misunderstandings - airline boarding cards get exchanged by mistake and as a result passengers end up travelling to wrong destinations; dumbfounded Lucky Singh points accusingly at Happy Singh but his gang misinterprets that as Lucky picking his successor.
If this kind of pedestrian humour isn’t your thing, then perhaps the toilet jokes are. Like that moment in which Happy Singh inadvertently pees on the face of another villager, or the one in which it’s insinuated that his privates get entangled in a table fan.
The problem with this writing is that there isn’t any - the screenplay goes from one stupid gag to another, one set-piece to another. Singh Is Kinng goes through the motions of a comedy, but there is deadness at its center - a feeling that no one connected with it loved what they were doing.
I’m one of those who hated Welcome, director Anees Bazmee’s last film - supposedly a comedy. I thought the plot was preposterous, the humour completely banal, and most of the performances below standard. It’s a film I violently disliked.
In all fairness, I can’t say I feel the same way about Singh Is Kinng - it’s certainly not as bad a film as Welcome although that’s not saying very much.
Singh Is Kinng is the kind of film that simply doesn’t arouse any passionate response - I didn’t love it, and I didn’t hate it either. I just didn’t care. And there I think lies the failure of this film - few of the characters are even remotely interesting, the story can’t exactly be described as original, and the actors aren’t in their finest form either.
Akshay Kumar has an endearing goofiness to him and he’s the only reason you’re willing to give this film a chance. How you wish he'd use his popularity and his clout to do better films.
Of the supporting cast, Om Puri and Kirron Kher give the film its handful of genuinely comic moments, while the rest try earnestly to raise your spirits with the kind of lines you’ve heard so many times before.
Katrina Kaif is an eyesore in every sense of the word - her costumes resemble something you might pick up in a fancy dress store, her acting so weak you want to urge her to watch everyone from Madhubala to Madhuri so she might pick up a few tricks. But my heart sank when I saw Ranvir Shorey wasted in a thankless supporting role. I can only hope a fat paycheck was his reason for choosing this film.
In the end, Singh Is Kinng is a dead zone of comedy. It might have been a time-pass film if the makers had made even the slightest of effort, but in its current form the only thing you can appreciate about it is the fact that it’s not terribly long. When the lights come back on in the end, you leave the hall completely emotionless. You just don’t care.
I’m going with two out of five for director Anees Bazmee’s Singh Is Kinng. I do hope the makers can afford swanky new BMWs from the money this film will invariably make. Someone should get something from this film, because the audience gets nothing.
Rating: 2 / 5 (Average)
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Now here's a news report from, again, IBN....
A record breaking opening for Singh is Kinng
New Delhi: Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif starrer Singh is Kinng had a record opening in theatres across the country on Friday. The collections totalled to Rs 8 crores on day one and the weekend collections are projected to be anywhere between Rs 28 to Rs 30 crores.
The highest first week collections for a Hindi film till date is for the Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone starrer Om Shanti Om which earned Rs 37 crores. Modest projections for the first week collections of Singh is Kinng is put at Rs 45 crores, which could be a new box office record.
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A really sad state of affairs i must say! After seeing senseless and pretentious movies like Dhoom 2, OSO, Race, Partner, and the like raze box office records and raise the bar considerably high (in terms of both-the moolah and the banality!), to see a 'dont-care' movie lik SIK poised to beat much much better movies like TZP, DCH, RDB, Lage Raho at the BO is sickening...Dont get me wrong...i loved the spoofs in OSO, the Filmfare spoof in particular rocked!even parts of Welcome,Partner and even, D2 were enjoyable (who doesnt want to see Hrithik in top form!)....but to see such mediocre and highly hypocritical stuff reign supreme at the BO is jus so unfair! These movies delivered nothing of what they promised...and all the good stuf was thr in the trailers...so if u hd seen a promo, u hd virtually seen the whole movie! Such undeserving crap leading the list of Highest-Grossing movies of all time is unimaginable....and yet, the fact is, more ppl thronged to the theatres to 'enjoy' SIK than to take in the msg in TZP...
As Dilbert's pointy-haired boss would have said, IT IS AS IT IS! Guess marketing matters much more and scores over content in this age!
P.S. read this hilarious review online and wanted to share it with you...foll are some of the excerpts...to catch the full review, go to http://www.bombaybitch.com/site/singh_is_kinng/
1. The Bitch‘s Verdict: Vipul Amrutlal Shah, I want my money back
2. Bazmee thinks he can pull off retarded cinema under the guise of an entertainer.
3. Pritam‘s music is doing the usual rounds but for all you know it was probably copied. Some music producer in Korea must be buying a ticket to India right now.
4. Katrina Kaif is bad as always. Apart from her bangin‘ bod she has little to flaunt. Nobody cares how she acts anyway and that accent of hers seems will make you want to drive a pen through your ear...Especially when she says "theeeenk you" in that Brit accent of hers, you feel like causing her harm, but thinking of Salman you dispense the thought swiftly. Even Neha Dhupia is looking better than her this time. And now that‘s an insult.
5. Speaking of Neha, all those so called stunts she kept on boasting of, which she did herself, are never shown in the movie. Probably she considers jumping, hopping, running and staying clothed as stunts. In that case... Bravo!
6. All this and more crap is at a theatre besides you. The question is, do you still want to go and watch it?
:D
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Here's wat critic-unparalleled Rajeev Masand had to say about SIK (or rathr SICK!) on IBN....
Masand's Verdict: Singh is Kinng, a dead comedy **
Most films can be divided into two broad categories - those that aim to entertain an audience, and those that have been produced with the sole purpose of making money. As far as I’m concerned, Singh Is Kinng is not so much a film as it is a clever money-making racket.
I know that people who make films shouldn’t be made to feel guilty about wanting to earn money from them - I agree with that completely. My problem is with people whose only objective for making films is to make money - they could be in the construction business, they could be manufacturing cigarettes, but they just happen to be making movies for a living. My problem is with those guys.
Singh Is Kinng is a film that has little or no regard for its audience. It’s the kind of movie whose makers couldn’t care less if you hated the film, fell asleep during the film, left the film in twenty minutes, or collapsed from a stroke midway through the film. They only care about the fact that you paid your two hundred bucks and bought your ticket. To hell with you after that.
I understand all filmmakers don’t want to change the world - they don’t want to make message movies like Swades or Lage Raho Munnabhai. They probably don’t want to address issues either. I get that. But how can a filmmaker not care about engaging his viewer - how can he not care if his audience is entertained or not? If you’re making what you describe as a comedy, shouldn’t you want the audience to laugh? The makers of Singh Is Kinng simply don’t care.
What better example of their indifference than the fact that they make a movie that they claim celebrates the spirit of being a Sikh, and yet they completely disregard the most basic detail of Sikh identity - how can your Sikh characters sport turbans but not full beards?
We’ve all seen enough films by director Anees Bazmee to know that we shouldn’t expect very much in terms of plot, and Singh Is Kinng is no different. Akshay Kumar plays Happy Singh, a bumbling do-gooder in a nameless village in Punjab, who manages to offend his friends and neighbours with his knack for causing trouble.
No wonder they pack him off to Australia with the responsibility of bringing back another Singh - underworld kingpin Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood, that is) who has tainted the reputation of their village and their community by his infamous deeds. Once there, by a strange hand of fate - the kind you can only expect in Anees Bazmee films - Lucky Singh slips into a coma-like state and Happy Singh is put in charge of his gang.
Not only does the new King set about reforming this motley group of criminals, he also falls head over heels in love with pretty-but-vacuous Sonia (played by Katrina Kaif) who sadly is already committed.
Singh Is Kinng is the kind of film whose screenplay is constructed almost entirely on the basis of silly coincidences and misunderstandings - airline boarding cards get exchanged by mistake and as a result passengers end up travelling to wrong destinations; dumbfounded Lucky Singh points accusingly at Happy Singh but his gang misinterprets that as Lucky picking his successor.
If this kind of pedestrian humour isn’t your thing, then perhaps the toilet jokes are. Like that moment in which Happy Singh inadvertently pees on the face of another villager, or the one in which it’s insinuated that his privates get entangled in a table fan.
The problem with this writing is that there isn’t any - the screenplay goes from one stupid gag to another, one set-piece to another. Singh Is Kinng goes through the motions of a comedy, but there is deadness at its center - a feeling that no one connected with it loved what they were doing.
I’m one of those who hated Welcome, director Anees Bazmee’s last film - supposedly a comedy. I thought the plot was preposterous, the humour completely banal, and most of the performances below standard. It’s a film I violently disliked.
In all fairness, I can’t say I feel the same way about Singh Is Kinng - it’s certainly not as bad a film as Welcome although that’s not saying very much.
Singh Is Kinng is the kind of film that simply doesn’t arouse any passionate response - I didn’t love it, and I didn’t hate it either. I just didn’t care. And there I think lies the failure of this film - few of the characters are even remotely interesting, the story can’t exactly be described as original, and the actors aren’t in their finest form either.
Akshay Kumar has an endearing goofiness to him and he’s the only reason you’re willing to give this film a chance. How you wish he'd use his popularity and his clout to do better films.
Of the supporting cast, Om Puri and Kirron Kher give the film its handful of genuinely comic moments, while the rest try earnestly to raise your spirits with the kind of lines you’ve heard so many times before.
Katrina Kaif is an eyesore in every sense of the word - her costumes resemble something you might pick up in a fancy dress store, her acting so weak you want to urge her to watch everyone from Madhubala to Madhuri so she might pick up a few tricks. But my heart sank when I saw Ranvir Shorey wasted in a thankless supporting role. I can only hope a fat paycheck was his reason for choosing this film.
In the end, Singh Is Kinng is a dead zone of comedy. It might have been a time-pass film if the makers had made even the slightest of effort, but in its current form the only thing you can appreciate about it is the fact that it’s not terribly long. When the lights come back on in the end, you leave the hall completely emotionless. You just don’t care.
I’m going with two out of five for director Anees Bazmee’s Singh Is Kinng. I do hope the makers can afford swanky new BMWs from the money this film will invariably make. Someone should get something from this film, because the audience gets nothing.
Rating: 2 / 5 (Average)
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Now here's a news report from, again, IBN....
A record breaking opening for Singh is Kinng
New Delhi: Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif starrer Singh is Kinng had a record opening in theatres across the country on Friday. The collections totalled to Rs 8 crores on day one and the weekend collections are projected to be anywhere between Rs 28 to Rs 30 crores.
The highest first week collections for a Hindi film till date is for the Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone starrer Om Shanti Om which earned Rs 37 crores. Modest projections for the first week collections of Singh is Kinng is put at Rs 45 crores, which could be a new box office record.
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A really sad state of affairs i must say! After seeing senseless and pretentious movies like Dhoom 2, OSO, Race, Partner, and the like raze box office records and raise the bar considerably high (in terms of both-the moolah and the banality!), to see a 'dont-care' movie lik SIK poised to beat much much better movies like TZP, DCH, RDB, Lage Raho at the BO is sickening...Dont get me wrong...i loved the spoofs in OSO, the Filmfare spoof in particular rocked!even parts of Welcome,Partner and even, D2 were enjoyable (who doesnt want to see Hrithik in top form!)....but to see such mediocre and highly hypocritical stuff reign supreme at the BO is jus so unfair! These movies delivered nothing of what they promised...and all the good stuf was thr in the trailers...so if u hd seen a promo, u hd virtually seen the whole movie! Such undeserving crap leading the list of Highest-Grossing movies of all time is unimaginable....and yet, the fact is, more ppl thronged to the theatres to 'enjoy' SIK than to take in the msg in TZP...
As Dilbert's pointy-haired boss would have said, IT IS AS IT IS! Guess marketing matters much more and scores over content in this age!
P.S. read this hilarious review online and wanted to share it with you...foll are some of the excerpts...to catch the full review, go to http://www.bombaybitch.com/site/singh_is_kinng/
1. The Bitch‘s Verdict: Vipul Amrutlal Shah, I want my money back
2. Bazmee thinks he can pull off retarded cinema under the guise of an entertainer.
3. Pritam‘s music is doing the usual rounds but for all you know it was probably copied. Some music producer in Korea must be buying a ticket to India right now.
4. Katrina Kaif is bad as always. Apart from her bangin‘ bod she has little to flaunt. Nobody cares how she acts anyway and that accent of hers seems will make you want to drive a pen through your ear...Especially when she says "theeeenk you" in that Brit accent of hers, you feel like causing her harm, but thinking of Salman you dispense the thought swiftly. Even Neha Dhupia is looking better than her this time. And now that‘s an insult.
5. Speaking of Neha, all those so called stunts she kept on boasting of, which she did herself, are never shown in the movie. Probably she considers jumping, hopping, running and staying clothed as stunts. In that case... Bravo!
6. All this and more crap is at a theatre besides you. The question is, do you still want to go and watch it?
:D
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i couldn't agree more with this post - it was a horrendous waste of time!
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