All audience reviews of Singh Saab The Great

You have to be a die hard fan of Sunny Deol to be able to sit through this film or you should see it in a single screen theater in Jallandhar or Ludhiana so that you enjoy it. (Sitting with the front benchers will make it better). The entire movie seems to be targeted for Punjabi audiences.

Supposedly Sunny Deol's comeback movie, it definitely has his stamp including references to "Dhai kilo ka hath'. Comparison with Gadar is inevitable where the combined talents of Sunny Deol and Anil Sharma had created a good movie. Regrettably director Anil Sharma has failed to create the emotion, intensity and impact of "Gadar". The dialoguebazi also lacks sparkle and the one liners are not very appealing.

The story is about an honest collector (Sunny Deol) who is single handedly waging a war against corruption and gets in the way of the local don Prakash Raj. In the bargain he suffers a lot and also goes to jail for 16 years. Out after 7 years due to good conduct ,he not only plans his vendetta to destroy the villain but also has noble plans of bringing change in society. ( Badlav not badla as he says). There is a pleasant surprise in the end for which the director must be given credit.

The collector played by Sunny is out of this world. In addition to flexing his muscles,bashing up goons, indulging in dialogue bazi, he finds time to party and dance in item numbers when he is not romancing his young wife or doting on his sister., He also holds a private durbar to dispense instant justice or give orders to pay up excise levy or else..... There is a regular track of Punjabi folk tunes in the background . Names of Sikh Gurus, Gandhi, Bhagat Singh are invoked for effect.

Acting wise it is Sunny all the way but he has definitely aged and clearly lost his sheen. However his is a sincere effort in trying to retain his fans. Amrita Rao is adequate as a TV reporter. Urvashi Rautela as the young wife is OK. Prakash Raj is good as usual as the nasty don and has some good lines to deliver. I found him getting the better of Sunny in some scenes.

Music is just OK with nothing to write home about. Production values are adequate. less

Sunny Deol and Anil Sharma is a combination that has delivered block buster movies like Gadar – Ek Prem Katha and Apne. Now they give us Singh Saab… This is a typical Sunny Deol movie where he has been wronged and has been subject to some kind of injustice and he is out there to seek revenge or Badla.. In this movie, they have added another alphabet V and made it BADLAAV or Change. Sanranjeet Singh (Sunny Deol) an honest collector is accused of accepting bribe by the local goon Bhoodev (Prakash Raj). He goes to Jail and is out with a new name and identity. How he tries to bring about a change this is what Singh Saab is all about.

Vinu Gyaan: Nothing new for the audience. We have seen this scenario in Ghayal, Ghatak, Ziddi, Salakhein, Zor… and every other Sunny Deol movie. But as a die hard deol fan I went to watch this movie. Sunny bashing up the baddies is believable and we all love to see that. So this movie is about BadlaaV and in the middle the V goes missing where it is only BADLAA. And again it comes back in the end. Prakash Raj seems repetitive and does not impress us. The dialogues are hard hitting and sunny does use a lot of lung power in delivering it. Nice to see Johhny Lever back on the screen.. Music by Anand Raaj Anand and Sonu Nigaam is average. Nothing to go GaGa over it. I shall give this movie 2 star. less

Who needs superman when you have Sunny Deol?. He can turn a jeep around 360 degrees with one hand. He roars, screams, yells and says line like " sardar jab dushman ko pakad leta hai toh uski haddiyan tadtadane lagti hai tad tad tad tad tad " the loudest applause and whistles were on this line but, it comes right at the fag end of the film till then, you have to endure 70's style of family drama.

He also repeats Dharmendra's famous dialogue " meri zindagi ka ek hi maqsad hai. Badla,badla,badla." but Anil Sharma wants him to focus on badlav instead of badla so he lands up again after 7 years to the place which snatched his life and honour. He doesn't want to avenge the villain but wants him to change because he reads the teaching of swami Vivekananda. But, how can you keep Sunny away from action so there is lots of it in the second half. He also gets to romance a 19 year old girl and keeps reminding the audience about their age gap.

Thankfully, I watched the film with the right audience in a single screen theatre. So there was some vibrant energy on the dialoguebaazi otherwise watching this in a multiplex would have been an invitation to headache. Urvashi Rautela makes a pleasant debut. She does the song and dance routine quite well. I wonder how Prakash Raj motivates himself to keep on doing the same routine film after film. Director Anil Sharma takes the film so seriously that there is not even the unintentional entertainment that might make the watch bearable.

Word of mouth - Singh Saab is not so great and not even average.

Rating - ** (Not worth it)

Ticket meter - not worth a theatre visit less

When like a true die hard Sunny fan I enter the cinema hall, first day first show, I am greeted by an almost empty cinema hall. I still hold my hopes high reminiscing Ghayal, Ghatak, Arjun and Damini, for another action packed ride, the Desi Deol style.

But 10 minutes into the film, and all my hopes come crashing down. After the much anticipated Sunny release, and with the Gadar fame Anil Sharma in tow, the film turned out to be a wannabe Dabbang.

The plot revolves around a very virtuous collector, who's life turns upside down when he stands up to the local strongman ( played brilliantly by Prakash Raj ). The film then moves around pretty much like an headless chicken, with the script completely losing direction. The action sequences also dont provide much relief. The songs, further pull the film down, with no entropy with the film. Amrita Rao tries her best to play the pesky journalist, but then, it's an out and out Sunny film !! Sunny's wife, played by Urvashi Rautela, is still ok.

The highlight of the film, apart from Sunny of course, is Prakash Raj. The man seems to become despicable with every passing film, and yes we are loving it..

Yes, the dhaai kilo haath bulldozes the villain. Yes, Sunny's dialogue delivery still has the potential to give goosebumps. But Singh Saab, has totally underutilized what Sunny Deol stands for. Sunny Deol never stood for the cable strung, exaggerated and circus inspired action. Nor can he carry off the casanova or naughty husband. The ones grown on a constant fodder of Ghayal, Ziddi, Ghatak and Gadar would agree.

But Singh Saab is dotted with all these uncomfortable zones for the much loved Deol. He is seen trying to serenade with an heroine, half his age, as well as tries his hand at dancing and some comedy.

Lastly thanks to Smita for dedicating the review to us. We do hope to see you in the theater for the screening Border 2. And hopefully we can convince you to a lot more stars then :) less

This review of Singh Saab the great is dedicated to all those fans of Sunny Deol who forsake work on a Friday morning to catch the first day, first show of his movie. Ulka boys (sorry, I didn't ask your names, I was too dazed by the movie) this is for you.

Such devotion is the true test of a star and Sunny Paaji comes out a winner. His fans will always love him even though :
the movie has a story straight from an 80s flick, with a baad villain pitted against the good guy
The songs are irritating time wasters and the item number is the most horrible one I've seen
The heroine is a newcomer less than half paaji's age (and no, mentioning that age difference upfront many times over in the movie as a joke doesn't make it ok)
Everyone talks in very loud voices as if the audience is deaf
Every move has a flashback explaining stuff that was self explanatory (unless Sunnyji thinks we are creatures of lesser intelligence)
The hero can't dance but will. ( but a true fan will wait for the yara o yara step)
He also gets his old dad and his loser brother into his movies, at least for one sequence
There are scenes like the hero's sister being stuck on a scaffolding that make you cringe
Close shots of Sunny romancing the heroine -ewwww

A true fan instead will see Paaji's gentle eyes even as he lifts a truck with a wrist and impales a man with a bamboo and clap in the killer scene where he douses the villain with ghee and throws him into a havan.

A true fan is blinded by love and will cheer. The rest of us are better of keeping our blindfolds on. Avoid less