Singam

Singam - The new action oriented Surya movie released on May 28 in theaters turned to be a huge success. Director Hari had tried to add all usual tamil ingredients to make the movie a hit, since his last move Seval was a flop. Hari is the director who used give some sort of difference in the storyline (though having with same village backdrop) disappointed this time by becoming a copy cat. The Surya staring Singam in a mixture to 2 hit movie Anjathey and his own super hit Sammy.

Durai Singam (Surya) is a sub inspector in a small town Nallore in Thoothukudi District. He loves and loved by everyone in the village. Mayil Vaaganam (Prakash Raj) is a big don in Chennai city who controls all local gangs who do all sorts of kidnapping, blackmailing, fights through out the city. Ministers and police fears to take action against Mayil Vaaganam. Kavya (Anushka – Vetakaran fame) came to Nallore to meet her grand mother (Manorama), and fallen love with Durai Singam. As usual romantic songs, and dances. Everything was moving smooth till Mayil Vaaganam came to Nallore for a case, and had an encounter with Singam. Since Nallore is Singams home land, Mayil Vaaganam couldnt do anything against him, so he brought Singam to Chennai and made Inspector for Thiruvanmiyur and started pressurizing him, finally Singam decided to have an open fight with Mayil Vaaganam. The major problem facing by the city was kidnapping controlled by Mayil Vaaganam, but no cases has been registered against him, the home minister assigns Singam as Office in charge for Anit-Kidnap Force and promote him as Assistant Comissioner. Now Singam starts his game of hunting down Mayil Vaaganam , his brother and all those who support him, lot of action sequence and some usual romantic dance numbers with Anushka (totally unnecessary).

Though it gives a feel that the movie has something interesting to tell, as its trailer says so, it has nothing to say. The main story is much similar to Anjathey (where Narein plays the role of Police office in the team who handles the case to catch a team who kidnaps people and blackmail them for money. The climax of the movie is also very similar in which villain fools the police but misleading them, the intelligence of the hero finds out the case). The backdrop of Singam is much similar to Sammy (where Vikram played the role of rough police officer who comes to Tirunelveli and brings the city under control).
There is not much to say about the cinematography and script. Many of the scenes are not very clear that the audience will not be able to understand. Surya did a good job with a nice, powerful look. Prakash Raj has nothing big to do and much similar acting what he did in Gilli and Sivakasi. For most of the recent movie the comedy track is very poor. Vivek who handled the comedy track for the movie is very poor. It is hard to even smile; most of the scenes are copy and same gestures. Anuska – nothing to write, has very little to do in the movie, even low number of scenes when compared to Vetaikaran.
Action sequence are very good, Hari, as his all earlier movies given importance to music and with Harris Jayraj has given some good numbers.
Movie cast : Surya, Anuska, Prakash Raj, Nazar, Vivek, Radha Ravi, Vijay kumar Nizhalgal Ravi, Manorama.
Movie produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raja and Sun pictures brought it to theaters.
Singam-watch it if you like Surya.