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| Directed by | Rohit Shetty |
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Sajid-Farhad (Dialogue) |
| Screenplay by | Yunus Sajawal |
| Story by | Rohit Shetty |
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| Cinematography | Dudley |
| Edited by | Steven Bernard |
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| Distributed by | Reliance Entertainment |
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Running time | 145 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language |
Hindi Marathi |
| Budget | ?105 crore |
| Box office | ?216.56 crore |
Singham Returns is a 2014 Indian action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ajay Devgn FFilms. A sequel to the 2011 film Singham, actor Ajay Devgn reprises his role from the previous film, as well as co-producing the project, while Kareena Kapoor plays the female lead thus replacing Kajal Aggarwal. The film was also simultaneously made in Marathi. The film was released worldwide on 15 August 2014. The movie is loosely based on the 1993 Malayalam movie Ekalavyan.
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Plot
Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) gets transferred to Mumbai and he discovers that one of his team members (Mahesh) is found dead inside an ambulance with massive bags of money. Bajirao decides to unearth the truth behind it and in this process, he collides with a powerful and fraudulent religious leader, Satyaraj Chandar a.k.a. Babaji (Amole Gupte), who has high-profile connections with corrupt politicians.
During this period, Guruji (Anupam Kher), is killed by Babaji, even though Singham was present at the scene. He vows revenge. Because of this, he has to pretend that he has resigned in front of his family. Due to this his father asks him and his childhood friend, Avni (Kareena Kapoor), to come to their home town, Shivgarh. After some time, Singham and Avni fall in love with each other. However, it is then revealed that Singham hasn't resigned and came to Shivgargh on a mission to get some evidences against Babaji.
When they get back to Mumbai, Babaji starts threatening Singham's family. He also harms all of Guruji's candidates, including Avni, because her brother is one of the candidates. Singham manages to save everyone but before they resign, one of Babaji's henchmen, Altaf (Pankaj Tripathi), wakes up from coma and testifies against him. Singham arrests Babaji and his left hand, Prakash Rao (Zakir Hussain. However, some party workers execute an attack outside the court, killing the witnesses. This causes Babaji and Rao to receive bail. But after Babaji gets released, Singham and a team of police force goes to his house without wearing their police uniforms and involve in a war with Babaji and Rao's men and subsequently shoots at their buttocks to coerce them and the wounded Rao and Baba tell the truth.
A few weeks later, Guruji's party wins the elections. While being transported to jail, Rao and Baba once again threaten Singham. Suddenly, the van in which Prakash Rao and Baba are being transported in suddenly stops and the driver walks away. A water tanker crashes into the van and both of them are killed. Inspector Phadnis (Vineet Sharma) tells media that there was a brake failure, and the incident is deemed an accident.
Cast
- Ajay Devgn as Deputy Commissioner of Police Bajirao Singham
- Kareena Kapoor as Avni Kamat
- Amole Gupte as Satyaraj Chandra Baba
- Anupam Kher as Gurukant "Guruji" Acharya
- Dayanand Shetty as Senior-Inspector Daya
- Vineet Sharma as Sub-Inspector Phadnis
- Zakir Hussain as Prakash Rao
- Mahesh Manjrekar as Chief Minister Vikram Adhikari
- Sonalee Kulkarni as Maneka
- Jitendra Joshi as Ashish (Maneka's boyfriend)
- Sameer Dharmadhikari as Kishore Kamat
- Deepraj Rana as Sunil Prabhat
- Sharat Saxena as Commissioner Rathore
- Ashwini Kalsekar as Meera Shorri
- Govind Namdev as Manikrao Singham
- Pankaj Tripathi as Altaf
- Sachin Nayak as Bhola
- Shriswara as Neeta Parmar
- Ganesh Yadav as Mahesh
- Sarita Joshi as Mrs. Jadhav
Production
Filming
Director Rohit Shetty announced his thoughts on making a sequel to one of his finest movies Singham (2011). After filming Chennai Express with Shah Rukh Khan, Shetty reportedly has begun filming for Singham 2 with the lead star Ajay Devgn. Filming was expected to go on floors by December 2013 after Shetty's last directorial venture, Chennai Express (2013) released with Shetty starting the work of Singham 2's pre-production along with that of his another film which incidentally is a sequel too, Golmaal 4. However Ajay Devgn the lead of the film canned 20 days of photography for his another film Action Jackson, directed by Prabhudeva and start another leg of the shoot from 10 November 2013. After several delays owing to Devgn's shooting his other film Action Jackson concurrently the principal photography for a 15-day schedule of the film started from 15 May 2014 in Goa. The shoot was held in few places like streets of Siolim, a village located at a distance of about 25 Kilometres from Panaji. The ones which were held in Panaji were mostly indoor ones.
Music
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| Soundtrack album by Jeet Gannguli, Meet Bros Anjjan, Ankit Tiwari and Yo Yo Honey Singh | ||||
| Released | 5 August 2014 | |||
| Genre | Feature Film Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 20:39 | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | T-Series | |||
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The soundtrack for the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli, Meet Bros Anjjan, Ankit Tiwari and Yo Yo Honey Singh. All the composers composed one song each. The soundtrack album contains four songs and one remix.
The first single track "Kuch Toh Hua Hai" sung by Ankit Tiwari and Tulsi Kumar was released on 25 July 2014.
Another single "Aata Majhi Satakli" sung and composed by Yo Yo Honey Singh was released on 1 August 2014.