The results are out.
The Akshay Kumar Bollywood film, Singh is Kinng, raked in Rs 57.75 crore in 10 days at the domestic box office and has been declared a blockbuster both in India and overseas.
In Delhi/UP, East Punjab and Rajasthan, the film is continuing to do well with trade reports claiming “super strong collections”. Some reports even claim that the second weekend collections were even better at places than the first week of record-breaking blockbusters like Shah Rukh Khan’s Om Shanti Om and Hrithik Roshan’s Dhoom 2.
I have watched all the three films, and I still feel that Singh is Kinng isn’t such a great entertainer compared to OSO and D2.
Why? For the following:
1. The gags and slapstick comedy make you laugh. But it’s a hollow laugh.
2. Akshay Kumar has a screen presence allright. But one can’t watch the film just for that.
3. If Govinda was physically fit, he would have played a better Singh than Akshay.
4. The film’s premise was great, but it could have been a lot better than what it eventually became.
5. Loved the previous outings of its director Anees Bazmee: Welcome, Pyar To Hona Hi Tha and Deewanagee. They were top-class. Singh is Kinng isn’t even close to it.