Singh Saab The Great

<p>An honest IAS officer got a posting as a Collector in a small city. A TV journalist, Shikha Chaturvedi, uncovers the mysterious hero’s backstory. It starts in a small village named Chironji, with a small argument about food issues in a village caused by a local goon named Jatta Singh ( ) when Singh Saab ( ) makes his grand entry. Singh Saab is an honest, noble, and loyal man. Above all else, he lives his life on honest principles, and that makes him a messiah of common people. He came with an offer from his movement named People’s Beat, which is for a noble cause, and approached Jatta Singh to let the goods from his factories be used for a good cause. This enrages Jatta Singh and attacks Singh Saab. He denies hitting back to honor the day, which was 2 October, Non-Violence Day. But things got messy, and Singh Saab and Jatta have a duel. Then they get several invitations, one from Bhadhori, which upsets him, and a TV reporter named Shikha Chuturvadi ( ) approached to him and believes that he is living a noble life as a hoax. Then he was shaken and decided to tell her about the story of his life revolving around the name Bhadhori. It flashes back to 7 years earlier, the time when he was known as Saranjeet Singh Talwar, an IAS officer. He was travelling with his loving wife Minnie ( ) to a small city, Bhadhori, where he was transferred as the Collector. There he starts a court of justice for action to be taken against corrupt individuals. There he meets a gangster alias a crime lord named Raja Dadta Bhudhev Singh ( ). He has an excise of Rupees 32,029,000 to pay, and he threatens Saranjeet to open his factories otherwise he will do something to his sister and ruin her marriage. This enrages Saranjeet, and he then slaps Bhudhev, which led to a threat to ruin Saranjeet’s life and will make him squeal. Things get messy when Bhudhev kidnaps Saranjeet’s sister’s father-in-law and makes him to obey his order to mix poison in the ritual of feeding sweets to the daughter-in-law and son, or the whole family will be poisoned. He tries but attempts to fail and Saranjeet finds that things are fishy. He is called by Bhudhev and finds out that Minnie was poisoned, by the cause of her drink being spiked with poison. They rush her to the hospital and Bhudhev has made a deal to exchange the order of his factories’ release for Dr. Anand, the neurosurgeon, to perform the surgery for Minnie’s survival. Saranjeet agrees for Minnie’s unstable condition. But, it gets too late and Minnie passes away. Saranjeet is heartbroken and had found an old letter written by his wife during her last minutes. Furious, Saranjeet goes to Bhudev and attacks him. He is then sentenced for 16 years of imprisonment. But, one day he met his old friend, Mohammad Iqbal ( ) who was the jailor official, and recommended bringing change instead of taking revenge. Now in present day, he is a dedicated man towards bringing a noble change to the society. Singh Saab defeats Bhoodev and his men, who abducted Simar and her son. He rescued her from falling off through the bamboos, Thus teaching Bhoodev Singh a lesson and leaves Bhadori for happy life at the end. The soundtrack album was composed by the music director and composed the title track of the movie while the lyrics were penned by . The music was launched on 28 Oct 2013. The album contains six songs. received mostly positive reviews from critics. David Chute of praised Deol’s action sequences. rated the movie as 3.5/5 stars, saying, “There is a virility and fluency to the storytelling. is a homage to the cinema of the 1980s when Sunny was macho.” gave the film 4/5 stars, saying ” is a mass entertainer. It’s a Sunny Deol vehicle. Sunny Paaji is obviously on top of this game. His comedy punches, stirring Punjabi dialogues are all over the top but perfectly suitable in context of film”. gave the movie 3/5 stars, stating “Like all films that talk of reforming society, Anil Sharma’s has its heart in the correct place. Sunny Deol’s earnestness shines, throughout the duration of this melodrama”. of Bollywood Hungama gave a 3.5/5-star rating and wrote ” is a typical Sunny Deol film that a section of the audience still enjoys. The clap worthy dialogue, the raw appeal, the undercurrent of emotions and of course, the should appeal to those who relish fares, especially the single screen audience”. The film’s total box office collections totaled approximately 40.67 crore in India on a 25 crore budget.</p>