Singh Saab the Great (2013)

Nice effects though.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This is an action flick through and through, but it gets old watching nothing but anger and fighting every 5 minutes through the whole movie. Sunny Deol and Prakash Raj play their parts well a contrasting good and evil, but that is lost when it's played out over and over. The three leading ladies basically over act killing any hope of at least adding some interesting parts. They just seem to have been added for eye candy. Johnny Lever's and Sanjay Mishra's characters are out of whack and I wasn't sure why there were even in the movie unless someone thought that would be the comical part (they are not most of the time). The music is decent and the dance scenes are good, but they fail to revive the boredom. There is an underlying message, but it seems like it took 2 hrs and 20 minutes to get to it in the end. If all you want is impossible action scenes of super human feats, then maybe it's worth a watch, but if you want an action flick with substance and decent story that helps move things along, then this one will not do.

Sunny Deol's sincerity- in ample display when he is bashing bad guys to a pulp, or when he is roaring out insults, and Prakash Raj's delicious evil are redeeming factors that somehow elevates Singh Saab The Great from a mediocre revenge saga to a film with some semblance of substance. "Badle se Badlav"As the titular character, he is a tainted collector who tries to overcome his thirst for revenge against his nemesis, Bhoodev Singh, to become an agent of change. Singh Saab is a cross between any of Sunny Deol's past characters in Ghayal, Tridev, Damini or Narasimha (yes, he has been typecast so much!), and something Arvind Kejriwal should have been- leader of a people's movement, not the politician that he turned out to be. But then Kejriwal is subject for another discussion, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Farhan Akhtar be damned, there is none who can play a more authentic Sikh in Bollywood than Sunny. Alternating between genial, loving, bumbling husband and brother, and a fearless leader cum goon-crusher Sunny holds the movie together, despite a weak script and overlong romantic interludes.Singh Saab the Great is a typically jingoistic Anil Sharma movie, but it is no Gadar- you have heard all the quotable dialogs in the trailer. The romantic back-story between a 50 year old Sunny and the 19 year old newcomer Urvashi Rautela is grating. The comedy is mostly out of place, and the music is eminently fast-forward-able. A large chunk of the movie is in Punjabi-cized Hindi so its appeal will be limited to the north of India. But the movie, like Singh Saab himself, has its heart in the right place. Most movies nowadays start well enough but trail off- Singh Saab is the opposite, with a rip-roaring second half more than makes up for the draggy first. There is a social message, and an attempt to champion people-power. Action or melodrama- Sunny shows the young guns how it is done, while Prakash Raj, who is often said the play the same character ie a funny villain, does break character here to portray genuine evil- a man you would love to hate.It is unfortunate and silly that it all ends in a terribly one-sided showdown between Sunny and an army of thugs. I mean silly because a decade back this man destroyed the entire Pakistani army so this fight was a no contest to begin with, and unfortunate because the climax kind of apes other action movies. Having said that, it was better than what I expected, and till the climax, it did come out as a different kind of movie. Worth a watch!

Go and Watch this movie ....because its the sunny best action movie till date........I don't have words....he is looking awesome in the movie....After Ghayal & Gadar...this is the movie we all r waiting for....Best action Scene as for me:Stopped the running Ford Endeavour SUV by his single hand while saving a life of a child....Go For : 1.Best Action movie by Sunny Deol till date. 2.Very Good End ...a Positive end... 3.Beautiful track songs...specially the main track " singh saab the great" by sonu nigam.From Sam ( Sunny Deol Fan )

Sunny Deol has always been my favorite actor when it comes to action. I don't think there is any other actor in Bollywood who can execute action sequences with as much intensity as Sunny does it and whatever action he does he pulls it off so convincingly that you don't have even fraction of doubt about it.Unfortunately his last couple of movies hadn't been successful,probably because taste of audiences changed in last couple of years specially in metros (though on single screens people still die to watch his actions).I genuinely feel Sunny is one of the most underutilized actors in Bollywood and whenever directors like Santoshi,Anil Sharma or JD dutta utilized him fullest he has come up with performances which can be matched bu none. none means none. I can't recall a single confrontation scene in any other actor's movies which has so much intensity as it has in Ghatak when Sunny says "Utha Utha Patkunga,Utha Utha Patkunga, Halak me hath dal ke Kaleja kheech lunga Haramkhor". I have watched Ghatak so many times but let me tell you I still feel enthralled when I watch this scene in Ghatak. It is the best fight scenes I have ever watched in a movie and I can bet no one else can do it that way. Coming back to SSTG, I found it entertaining from beginning to end with some very nicely choreographed and done action scenes. My favorite action sequence has been the one just before the lunch where Sunny lifts and throws Prakash Raj in to the fire. Oh my God... I have never seen this kind of scene at least in last 10 years in any movie. And when Sunny does it you don't find it over the top becoz you know he really can do that. It really deserves big clapping and whistles from audiences. Direction is good which could have been better and screenplay could have been made bit more meaty but Sunny's performance covers it up. Watch it if you like raw and real action. Watch it if you believe that roaring is one of the natural attributes of anger and there is nothing ridicules about it. and last but not the least watch it for the man whose Dhai Kilo ka Hath has become 5 kilo ka hath now.Giving it 9 out of 10 for one and only Sunny Deol.-Saurabh