Singham is such a mighty blast from the past, it leaves you reeling under its impact. Designed as a tribute to the pure, unadulterated action films of the Bachchan era, where a larger-than-life hero battled a mega-evil villain, with nothing but his principles and his bare fists, Rohit Shetty's retro film leaves you goofy, grinning and clapping with glee as the rivals indulge in in-your-face encounters, laced with in-your-face action, peppered with in-your-face dialogues, brimming over with in-your-face belligerence and brawn. Truly, Singham leaves nothing to the imagination and makes a singular appeal to testosterone alone.
But there is a sense and a sensibility behind all the explosive action cuts which include believe-it-or-not shots of Ajay Devgn single-handedly felling an entire army of goons, time and again, but only after he has dutifully given away his service revolver to his girl friend ( Kajal Aggarwal) who seems to be always there by his side for silent applause. Apart from the high adrenalin physical encounters, there are umpteen high drama chases, with cars flying helter skelter as Devgn displays his Formula l skills. Kudos to action director Jai Singh for giving contemporary cinema some of its most explosive and gut-spewing retro thrills, albeit done with a modern finesse.
Add to this the high-intensity dialogues (Farhaad-Sajid) and the racy screenplay (Yunus Sajawal) of the film and you have Singham all set to scorch the big city and mofussil India screens with its high drama. A word about the romantic track between Devgn and Kajal Aggarwal: absolutely tepid. But thank God, it's perfunctory to the main track.
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