Even Singham Returns Has Humour:
Rohit Shetty
Rohit Shetty’s enviable
box-office-record speaks for itself, but the director does not allow the number
game to come in the way of his work. Allowing his films to do all the talking
has always been Rohit’s style and that is why the director is not making any
tall claims about his much-awaited Independence Day release Singham Returns.
Shetty is aware that
several films similar to Singham in format have come and gone in the last few
years, so Singham Returns will need a lot more than people flying around.
Shetty feels the day
he will start thinking in terms of 200-Crores, the film will be a disaster. But
one thing that wont change is his focus on making universal films that kids and
families can watch together.
The sequel adds several new members to the cast, but Singham
was unique because despite being an action film there was a lot of dark humour
in the villain’s character. On how he plans to treat the grey characters in
Singham Retruns, Rohit assures, "Even this film has that. The villain is
not the same, as we did not want to make it repetitive. But there is a lot of
humor in Singham Returns as well".
While Rohit insists he does not let the 200-Crore-club
pressure (his last release Chennai Express is the second biggest grosser of
alltime) to interfere in his scheme of things, the trade has high hopes from
this film. Singham Returns is among the five or six films that are expected to
revive the box office in a year that is yet to see any record-breaking hits.
The 10-film-wise
filmmaker however argues that one cannot predict box-office records.
He adds, "You never know which film will do well.
Sometimes you don’t expect a film to do that well and it does big
business".
Speaking on the year so far, Rohit says, "There are
years when the first half of the year is quite dull. But Holiday and 2 States
have done well this year. We have been busy shooting so I don’t know much, but
it happens sometimes".
Plot
Singham opens with an honest police officer in Goa, Rakesh
Kadam (Sudhanshu Pandey), committing suicide because of false accusations of
corruption by Jaikant Shikre (Prakash Raj), a don and politician in Goa running
a kidnapping racket. Kadam's wife Megha Kadam (Sonali Kulkarni) vows revenge.
The story moves to Shivgarh, a small village near the
Goa-Maharashtra border. Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgan), an honest Maratha police
inspector like Kadam, is in charge of the Shivgarh police station. He resolves
most of the problems in his town informally and without filing charge sheets,
thereby gaining much reputation and love from the villagers. Gautam Bhosle
("Gotya," Sachin Khedekar) is an industrialist and a friend of
Singham’s father Manikrao Singham (Govind Namdeo). He comes to Shivgarh with
his wife and daughter Kavya (Kajal Aggarwal). Eventually Singham and Kavya fall
in love with each other. Their courtship takes place through a series of comic
events where she initially hates him and then has a change of heart when she
sees his honest and simple nature.
Everything seems to run smoothly until Jaikant, who is given
a conditional bail for a murder he committed, is required to travel to Shivgarh
to sign the bail every fortnight. He, instead, sends one of his allies to do
the formalities, much to the anger and rage of Singham who demands Jaikant sign
the bail in person. Humiliated, Jaikant reaches Shivgarh but is unable to take
any revenge on Singham fearing the wrath of villagers. Using his political
contacts, he gets Singham transferred to Goa to take revenge.
Singham, unaware of Jaikant’s hand behind his transfer,
joins Colva police station. His co-workers, Sub-Inspector Phadnis (Vineet
Sharma), Sub-Inspector Abbas (Ankur Nayyar), Head Constable Savalkar (Ashok
Saraf) hate Jaikant for his crimes but are unable to take any action because of
Jaikant’s political powers. DSP Patkar (Murli Sharma), Singham's senior, is on
Jaikant's payroll and takes care in concealing and eliminating the evidence of
Jaikant’s crime from the eyes of the law. Singham tries to take this to the
notice of DGP Vikram Pawar (Pradeep Velankar) but it turns out to be of no use
as there is no evidence against Jaikant and Patkar. The local minister Anant
Narvekar (Anant Jog) does not help Singham and, in turn, he warns him to stay
away from Jaikant's case. Defeated Singham wants to return to his hometown but
is stopped by Kavya who encourage him to fight against the evil and not run
like a coward.
Being mentally tortured by Jaikant, Singham arrests
Jaikant’s top lieutenant Shiva (Ashok Samarth) in a fake case of illegally
smuggling alcohol. He thwarts off DSP Patkar in full view of the public when
Patkar, bounded by his duties to Jaikant, tries to protect Shiva. Meanwhile,
Megha Kadam, after being ridiculed by DGP Pawar and minister Narvekar for her
corrupt husband’s death, seeks help from Singham to abolish the corruption
charges against her husband; he obliges. Jaikant kidnaps Kavya’s younger sister
for ransom. Rescuing her, Singham successfully traces the origins of the
kidnapping racket to Jaikant but is unable to arrest him as he wins an election
and becomes a minister of Goa.
Jaikant, sends transfer orders to Singham to go back to
Shivgarh. That night at a police function organized for the officers with their
family, Singham confronts the officers for not abiding to their duties and
being dishonest and unfaithful to their profession by protecting Jaikant. At
first, the officers disagree with Singham, but filled with guilt, the officers
decide to help Singham fight Jaikant. They reach his home to kill him, with DGP
Pawar and Patkar, now in support with Singham. Jaikant eventually escapes but,
after running through the city, he is arrested by the police the next morning.
They bring him to the police station and shoot him dead on the same chair where
Inspector Rakesh Kadam shot himself. Then they threaten Shiva to change his
statement. Jaikant and Minister Narvekar are proved guilty. At a media
conference, DGP Pawar and Singham clear Kadam of all corruption charges.
The film ends with Singham and other police officers
saluting Mrs. Kadam.
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