Ramayan to the rescue? Not quite! Nothing can save this loud and clunky cops-and-robbers slick but sick flick from sinking without any grace, not even Lord Rama whose doppelganger Ajay Devgan plays with all the spiritual splendour of a grasshopper in a foliage-free desert.
Crowded and bustling, Singham Again is like a film that we have seen many times. It rolls together all the Singham tropes and slaps it on the screen with all the expertise of a chef on a bad-dish day.
Trashy though not in an unhealthy kind of way, and dishy if you enjoy reheated junk-food, Singham Again tears pages from the Ramayan and pastes it on to an abduction tale that offers more cringe than fringe benefits.
For fringe benefit, there are the leading ladies. Two of the best contemporary actresses Kareena Kapoor and Deepika Padukone are roped in to give the topheavy plot(written by a sextet of screamwriters, and I do mean scream) a gender-friendly flavour
Sadly, there is no room for the smouldering divas in the narrative which creaks and groans under the weight of excessive machismo. In any case when it comes to glib talking muscle flexing, Deepika’s Lady Singham is no match to Ranveer Singh’s Simbha .
The sweaty sweltering film features an over-ripened undercooked Ravan who likes to be called, hold your breath, Danger Lanka!!! As played by Arjun Kapoor the villain is as menacing as drugged bouncer . Kapoor’s villainy is a blustering mess.
This, one supposes goes well with the rest of the film which mistakes sound and thunder for genuine entertainment. Ravi Basrur’s background score is akin to a bratty child trying to forcibly get his parent’s attention.
Rohit Shetty insists that we get entertained by his breathless brouhaha. But it is a losing battle. Even with Ajay Devgn doing his somersaults with swag, how many times are we going to see Shetty make the same film over and over again?
