SINGHAM

Genre: Action Drama Thriller

Direction: Rohit Shetty

Lead: Ajay Devgan

First 50 minutes: Utter bullshit!

Second half of movie: Simply awesome!

Ending: Utter bullshit!

You just cannot expect good direction from Rohit Shetty. He has proved this with his last few movies like Golmaal 3 and All the Best. Give him a good story and he knows how to ruin it. This movie is a remake of a South Indian movie, which gave him the good story and then he did his job.

The movie plays jump-robe between my reviews. This movie had been extremely over-rated, so I had that mindset already built up. But then I felt like wasting my time over such crap as the first 50 minutes of the movie where they are just building up the character, are supposed to be a mixture of comedy and romance, but it doesn't have to do with either. The comedy is simply foolish and not at all funny. The romance is stupid. The other Bollywood action movies would seem practical; such is the action sequence in this one at the start -the word "exaggeration" doesn't quite describe these action scenes. The entire portion is full of non-sense and its just a waste of time.

The story actually begins after the first 50 minutes and then the graph start to rise. The writing is only okay but even the dialogues have been extremely hyped. But the storyline takes a great leap in this section. After Ajay's transfer to the city, the movie just turns awesome. It will keep you at the edge of your seat, though the action is impractical throughout the movie. But the plot is just amazing and the Indian system has been depicted very cleverly. The direction was bad but the storyline was just mind-blowing! The plot keeps thickening to such extent that you start ignoring the negative things in the movie. This excitement goes back down towards the end though. It is a great concept and a revolutionary one, something that every Indian duty-man should see. The morals and values have been imbibed in a great way. And then comes the climax.

The story doesn't end where it should have been. The villain should have been killed in the room where everyone is surrounding him. But another stupid extension is added to give some extra so-called comedy effect. That's when the movie turns bullshit again, when he is surrounded by all the officers and he still finds a gun simply lying on the table in front of him and he just escapes. They chase him and he keeps running, throughout the night! He is running in the morning when the jeeps keep chasing him. That is really for the dumb people to awe upon. After a great ride in the middle, the ending again disappointed me.

And so, when I could have easily given 4 stars for the plot, neglecting even the bad direction, I just cannot because I owe the reduction in ratings to the first 50 minutes and the end of the movie. And it makes the movie so ridiculous that I actually would have given it 3.25 stars, if it were possible. This is what happens when a brilliant plot is mixed up with a bad director and over-actors.

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