Singham Movie Details:
| Based on | Singam by Hari |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Genre | Action Crime Drama |
| Release date | 22 July 2011 |
| Running time | 2hr 23min |
| Certificate | U/A |
| Starring | Ajay Devgn Kajal Aggarwal Prakash Raj |
| Directed by | Rohit Shetty |
| Screenplay by | Yunus Sajawal |
| Dialogues by | Farhad-Sajid |
| Story by | Hari |
| Produced by | Mahesh Ramanathan Acharya Utpaal |
| Cinematography by | Dudley |
| Edited by | Steven H. Bernard |
| Music by | Score: Amar Mohile Songs: Ajay-Atul |
| Production Company | Reliance Entertainment |
| Distributor | Reliance Entertainment Amazon Prime Video Entertainment One |
Singham Movie Cast & Characters:
- Ajay Devgn as Inspector Bajirao Singham, Manikrao and Lata’s son, Kavya’s love interest, a police officer with great strength and wit of mind
- Kajal Aggarwal as Kavya Bhosle, Gautam and Savita’s elder daughter, Anjali’s sister, Bajirao’s friend and love interest, Kamalkant and Suhasini’s elder granddaughter
- Prakash Raj as Jaykant Shikre, a corrupt politician and businessman who clashes with Singham
- Sudhanshu Pandey as Inspector Rakesh Kadam, Megha’s husband and Nitin’s father (Special Appearance)
- Sonali Kulkarni as Megha Kadam, Rakesh’s wife, Nitin’s mother
- Sachin Khedekar as Gautam “Gotya” Bhosle, Kavya and Anjali’s father, Savita’s husband and Manikrao’s friend, Kamalkant and Suhasini’s son
- Govind Namdev as Manikrao “Manya” Singham, Bajirao’s father, Lata’s husband
- Meghna Vaidya as Lata Singham, Bajirao’s mother, Manikrao’s wife
- Ashok Saraf as Head-Constable Prabhu Sawalkar
- Murali Sharma as DSP Satyam Patkar, a corrupt police officer in league with Jaikant
- Ashok Samarth as Shiva Nayak, Jaikant’s right-hand man
- Ankur Nayyar as Sub-Inspector Abbas Malik
- Vijay Patkar as Havaldar Ramesh Kelkar
- Sana Amin Sheikh as Anjali Bhosle, Kavya’s sister, Gautam and Savita’s younger daughter, Kamalkant and Suhasini’s younger granddaughter
- Anant Jog as Minister Anant Narvekar
- Besant Ravi as Sangam Talkies Goon
- Vineet Sharma as Sub-Inspector Dev Phadnis
- Suchitra Bandekar as Savita Bhosle, Kavya’s mother
- Kishore Nandlaskar as Narvekar’s peon
- Naushad Abbas as Jaikant’s henchman
- Hari Bala as Nandu Singh, a villager in Shivgarh
- Vikash Kadam as Sadha Singh, a villager in Shivgarh
- Pradeep Velankar as DGP Vikram Pawar, Goa Police
- Harish Shetty as Vitthal Dalvi, Jaikant’s ally
- Jayant Sawarkar as Kamalkant Bhosle, Kavya’s grandfather
- Suhasini Deshpande as Suhasini Bhosle, Kavya’s grandmother
- Ravindra Berde as Zamindar Chandrakant
- Agastya Dhanorkar as Nitin, Rakesh Kadam’s son
- Neeraj Khetrapal as Jaikant’s lawyer
Storyline:
Following charges of corruption, Colva’s (Goa) Police Inspector Rakesh Kadam kills himself, leaving a devastated wife, Megha, and son, Nitin. She takes it upon herself to canvas support that her husband was framed by a gangster, Jaykant Shikre, and vainly insists on a CBI Inquiry. When the High Court requires Jaykant, on unrelated charges, to present himself at Shivgad Police Station, which is located at the borders of Maharashtra and Karnataka, he refuses to do so, and the local Inspector Bajirao Singham, who has recently fallen in love with stunning Kavya Bhosle, summons him.
An enraged Jaikant does appear along with an army of goons but is no match for Bajirao, who has support from the entire community. Humbled and humiliated, Jaykant returns to Goa, and ensures Bajirao gets transferred there. It is here he not only plans to use an army of goons, his control and influence over politicians and senior police officers to plan the ultimate vengeance with impunity but also contest and win the local elections.
Singham Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:
| Budget | ₹40 crore |
| Worldwide Collection | ₹247.89 crore |
Singham Movie tracklist:
| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Maula Maula” | Kunal Ganjawala, Richa Sharma | 04:04 |
| 2. | “Saathiya” (Remix) | Shreya Ghoshal, Ajay Gogavale | 05:00 |
| 3. | “Singham” | Sukhwinder Singh | 05:50 |
| 4. | “Saathiya” | Shreya Ghoshal, Ajay Gogavale | 05:10 |
| 5. | “Maula Maula” (Remix) | Kunal Ganjawala, Richa Sharma | 03:44 |
| 6. | “Singham” (Remix) | Sukhwinder Singh | 03:23 |
About Singham Movie:
Singham is a Hindi action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment, based on a script by writers Yunus Sajawal and Farhad-Sajid. The film stars Ajay Devgn in the lead role as a police officer named Bajirao Singham alongside Kajal Aggarwal and Prakash Raj who reprises his role as in the original.
Singham serves as the first installment of Rohit Shetty’s Cop Universe.
After the success of the Tamil film Singam, directed by Hari in 2010, the film’s remake rights were sold by the producers for Hindi and Kannada versions.
The co-producers of the Tamil version, Reliance Big Pictures purchased the Hindi remake rights and announced in November 2010 that the version would feature Rohit Shetty as director and Ajay Devgn in the lead role.
Prakash Raj was signed on to reprise his role as the antagonist from the original, whilst reports emerged that Asin and Anushka Shetty were being considered for the female lead role.
In mid-February 2011, Kajal Aggarwal, an actress who predominantly features in South Indian films was signed in as the female lead.
Singham went on floors in November 2010, with its scheduled cast.
The first schedule began in early March 2011 with action sequences shot in Goa featuring technicians from South India.
A scene with Prakash Raj and Ajay Devgn was shot in Goregaon in Mumbai with around 500 junior artists as villagers. Another scene was shot at Vagator in Goa for which 100 police jeeps were called.
The shooting was stalled by the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) members who demanded ₹45 lakh to be paid to the workers when it was being shot in Film City in Mumbai.
Singham had been removed from cinemas in Karnataka while some cinemas had canceled the shows following pressure from various groups protesting against derogatory statements against the Kannadigas. There was a demand to remove such scenes from the film and the filmmakers contemplated on the next course of action.
Singham commenced in Karnataka after the removal of some “objectionable” dialogues, a day after disruptions in its screening.
The music video for the 2020 Black Eyed Peas song “Action” pays tribute to Indian film action scenes, including Singham.
Singham was theatrically released on 22 July 2011 on 2000 screens worldwide with 1500 prints excluding overseas. The film’s DVD was released on 23 August 2011. The Delhi High Court, upon Reliance Entertainment’s request, issued an order to all Indian ISPs to block file-sharing sites to prevent unauthorized sharing of Singham.
Commemorating the film’s ninth anniversary, Devgn revealed in a throwback post on his social media handles that the film had been made available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. Five months later, it was also simultaneously made available on Netflix.
An animated series based on Singham premiered on Discovery Kids (India) in April 2018.
Singham Returns, a sequel to Singham directed by Shetty and produced by Ajay Devgn Films, was released in 2014. The plot is loosely based on the 1993 Malayalam film Ekalavyan.
Simmba, a spin-off to Singham directed by Shetty and starring Ranveer Singh, was released in 2018. Devgn reprises his role in a special appearance. Another sequence or spin-off, Sooryavanshi, starring Akshay Kumar as another DCP named Veer Sooryavanshi who join hands with Simmba and Singham to stop a terrorist attack on Mumbai is directed again by Shetty. All these films are set in the Cop Universe.
