first of all this is a sengh exclusive

O Chalo dhol waleo band vaaja lai ke aajo oye…

You already may be shocked from title, the whole 'quick' take. SIK I saw last night on a pirate DVD, and normally I would do a full fledged review for a film I have seen in the cinema or original DVD. SIK seems to be a huge sell out at the box office and also took me by shock. A few friends of mine went to the cinema recently and had walked out of the film just after the intermission, but it sort of built the impression for me that SIK is just a money in and money out product. I really wanted to see the fuss about SIK....

No Entry was very impressive. Welcome was really horrible. One good and one bad, so I would of though either Anees Bazmee is going the way down! But SIK was not really like that. SIK is not a quality film, neither its a film with a different or brillant script. SIK is a normal
typical mass entertainment film for the whole family as it was being sold as. As a product, SIK does succeed. Its a film that can be seen with any one eg. Family, Friends, Girlfriend etc.

I was not expecting a masterpiece. SIK has a script that has taken straight from a 80's film but it only stands on two thing: Comedy and its Music. To be honest, SIK wasnt a bad 2.15 hrs.

SIK suffers is a few departments. The direction is very poor, Anees Bazmee had spent one year on No Entry. Two years on Welcome. Then, 6 months on SIK?! It just shows when a good product sometimes can go into the wrong hands. Anees Bazmee could not to justiceproperly to SIK.

A few years ago Akshay was not known as a punjabi, now he's all bent over proving himself Punjabi! Akshay's performance is perfect for a film like SIK, its just want you needed for such a role! No other actor could of done justice to such. Its Akshay's acting that keepsthe viewer entertained till the very end, for sure!

Om Puri is next after Akshay! Om Puri is excellent indeed! The only supporting Punjabi actor I loved in the whole film, especially in the airport scene when he says "You stupid, Tere Pau Stupid and More Over Teri Pen *beep*" HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

The rest of the supporting cast including Katrina Kaif, Neha Dhupia etc. Are all from Below Average to Average.

Overall: SIK is a good watch for sure, nothing brillant, nothing outstanding. Just a simple mass entertainment film for the public which youcan view with anyone, the script is poor, direction is poor, supporting cast in not up to a standard. But SIK deserves one watch for sure!


Sengh's Rating:

'The New 'King' In Town'

Sengh and Singh!

A sheer, stupid , time pass, crowd pleaser! Must watch for all sardars! I like KHUGI guy too!

Akshay has mastered his art, film is a remake/lift off, but masala packed for absolute family viewing.



Ji ji (1989) Aka Miracle
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Jackie Chan's Hong Kong variation of Frank Capra's "A Pocketful of Miracles" set in the 1930s. Jackie plays a country boy who rescues a gang boss. Jackie becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. Jackie and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old rose-seller when her daughter comes to visit, all this while battling a rival gang. Written by Ronald Strong {rs080455@pacbell.net}


I wish Katrina would never speak Om Puri impresses again after mere baap, and Kiron Kher is likeable!

Kind of reminds of Kats/Akshay another film, where she is marrying a gora, then marries to a Kaala! lol

Javed Jaffery is da best!

Not bad for time pass! and a bit less over the board than Welcome!

From NY Times:

An Action Comedy With a Little Song and Dance

By RACHEL SALTZ
Published: August 15, 2008

This hyped-up action comedy, which bounces from Punjab to Egypt to Australia, broke box-office records when it opened in India last week. Its appeal has everything to do with its star, Akshay Kumar, who plays Happy Singh, a bumbling villager (“I’m an illiterate fool!” he says at one point), sent off into the world with nothing but his good intentions.

“Singh Is Kinng” isn’t a great movie. There are too many sloppy action sequences, the humor’s too broad, the storytelling lackluster. But the immensely likable Mr. Kumar shines as a Capraesque hero who spreads bedrock Indian values — honor your mother, help the poor — by example, most conspicuously as the accidental leader of a feared crime gang in Australia.

Happy and the gang are Sikhs, but, as a disclaimer states, “This is not a religious film.” It’s a Bollywood film, and that means visions of communal harmony, untiring exuberance and, of course, song-and-dance numbers. One takes place amid Egyptian ruins, with miniskirted dancers no less.

And at the end there’s a remix of the title song, featuring Snoop Dogg hanging out with Mr. Kumar and rapping (“Watch me zoom by, make it boom by/Whaddup to all the ladies hanging out in Mumbai”). Bollywood crossover dreams, anybody?

SINGH IS KINNG

Opened last Friday in Manhattan.

Directed by Anees Bazmee; written (in Hindi, with English subtitles) by Mr. Bazmee and Suresh Nair; directors of photography, Ben Nott and Sanjay F. Gupta; edited by Amitabh Shukla; music by Prittam, lyrics by Mayur Puri; produced by Vipul Shah; released by Adlabs. At the Imaginasian Theater, 239 East 59th Street, and AMC Empire 25, 234 West 42nd Street, Manhattan. Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Akshay Kumar (Happy Singh), Katrina Kaif (Sonia), Om Puri (Rangeela) and Sonu Sood (Lakhan Singh).

Variety review:
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Singh Is Kinng
(India)
By JOE LEYDON


Powered By An Indian Films release of an Adlabs presentation of a Hari Om Prods. production, in association with Blockbuster Movie Entertainers. Produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. Executive producers, A. Shah Aashin, Bimal Oberoi. Directed by Anees Bazmee. Screenplay, Bazmee, Suresh Nair.

With: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Sonu Sood, Javed Jaffrey, Kamal Chopra, Manoj Pahwa, Neha Dhupia, Kirron Kher, Ranvir Shorey, Snoop Dogg.
(Hindi, English dialogue)

Careening wildly between exuberance and silliness, syrupy sentiment and spectacular song-and-dance, "Singh Is Kinng" is a zesty Bollywood hodgepodge that already has scored big on its home turf, thanks in no small part to the star power of lead player Akshay Kumar, and may attract crossover auds during an already promising North American rollout. Obviously inspired by Frank Capra's "A Pocketful of Miracles" -- the famed filmmaker's 1961 remake of his own "Lady for a Day" (1934) -- and Jackie Chan's similarly plotted "Miracles" (1989), uneven pic is shapeless and shameless, but mostly engaging and undeniably amusing.

Kumar is winning as Happy Singh, a spirited bumbler whose best intentions usually result in property damage and minor injuries throughout his small Punjabi community. Eager to rid themselves of this well-meaning doofus, his fellow villagers send Happy -- accompanied, reluctantly, by exasperated elder Rangeela (Om Puri) -- to Australia on a seemingly impossible task.

Specifically, Happy is supposed to persuade Lucky (Sonu Sood), the village's most notorious prodigal son, to give up his life as "king" of the Australian underworld and return home to his family.

Not surprisingly, things don't go smoothly for our intrepid hero. First, Happy boards the wrong plane and winds up in Egypt --where, fortuitously, he meets and briefly flirts with Sonia (Katrina Kaif), a far-from-home Indian beauty. And when he finally does make it Down Under, Happy inadvertently causes Lucky's temporary paralysis. It falls to Happy to take over as king of Lucky's criminal empire.

Fortunately, this happenstance enables Happy to help a poor flower vendor (Kirron Kher) pose as a wealthy grande dame in order to impress her daughter's snooty fiance (Ranvir Shorey). Unfortunately, the daughter turns out to be -- who else? -- Sonia.

Directing from a script he co-wrote with Suresh Nair, Anees Bazmee displays a blithe disregard for consistencies of tone and characterization -- when he's not a hopeless klutz, Happy is an agile martial artist -- while keeping things moving at a brisk clip between lively production numbers. Colorful supporting characters -- including Mika (Javed Jaffrey), Lucky's treacherous, sight-impaired sibling -- arbitrarily switch from heroism to villainy, or vice versa, whenever it suits the needs of the plot. And yet, within the context of this fairy tale-ish froth, such arrant contrivance seems entirely appropriate.

Lensed on location in Australia and Egypt, "Singh Is Kinng" is considerably more than the sum of its parts, generating a well-nigh irresistible feel-good vibe that encourages auds to laugh with, not at, the pic. In the end, reprobates are redeemed, lovers are united and, no kidding, Snoop Dogg drops by to join the cast for the closing-credits reprise of the improbably catchy title song. Cowabunga.

Camera (color), Ben Nott, Sanjay F. Gupta; editor, Amitabh Shukla; music, Pritam; production designer, Stewart Burnside; sound (Dolby), Leslie Fernandes. Reviewed at AMC Studio 30, Houston, Aug. 9. 2008. Running time: 138 MIN. (I: 70 MIN.; II: 68 MIN.)