Singam 2 has a run time of over 2 hours 45 minutes, doesn’t offer anything new in terms of story and plot and has that obvious oddity of a Tamil movie dubbed in Hindi. But what makes all the difference is the performance of the hero, Singam. [break]
Singam is dauntless, and represents angry-young-man to the truest sense of the word. Clever special effects and sound effects aptly complement his lion-like persona, and he literally ‘roars’! But Singam is also emotional and can get teary-eyed at the slightest mishap to those he cares – be it his doting family or a sincere colleague at the police department. A patriot at heart, what provokes him the most is when someone says anything against the Indian Police.
The movie is also peppered with hints of romance – Kavya (Anushka Shetty) is Singam’s beloved since two years who patiently waits for him to marry her, and Sathya (Hansika Motwani), Singam’s student at the school where he trains, who falls for the teacher’s macho-ness. Singam, despite being too focused on his work as a police officer, doesn’t shy away from swaying his hips away with Kavya every now and then. But the romance sequence is so dull and unconvincing that even if it were totally axed from the plot, the audience would have missed nothing.
Gun-shots and police-criminal chase go on throughout the movie, but with funny innuendoes and carefully inserted comic reliefs, the audience won’t have too much of anything. And while the movie comes to an end with Danny in the jail, the audience will exit humming the very catchy ‘It’s Singam dance’ song.
Screening at QFX Cinemas
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