Singam
Singam | |
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Reliance BIG Pictures | |
Distributed by | Sun Pictures |
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Running time | 159 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Tamil |
Budget | ₹15 crore[1] |
Box office | est. ₹90–100 crore[2][3] |
Singam (transl.
Singam was released on 28 May 2010 and became a commercial success at the box office. It was remade in
Plot
Duraisingam "Singam" is an honest
Mahalingam, an industrialist in Chennai and friend of Soundarapandi, arrives at the village with his daughters Kavya and Divya. Singam initially thinks of Kavya as a prankster when she is about to prank her cousin by wearing a tiger costume. While roaming around the village, Singam accidentally slaps Kavya, but later apologizes to her. Kavya gets moved by this and slowly falls in love with him. After some hilarious incidents, Kavya professes her love to Singam. Initially taken aback, Singam soon reciprocates Kavya's love. Mayil Vaaganam, a Chennai-based gangster infamous for extortion and kidnapping, is required to travel to Nallur to sign a conditional bail after having forced a builder into committing suicide.
Mayil instead sends one of his allies to do the formalities, enraging Singam. Singam demands that Mayil sign the bail in person. Humiliated, Mayil reaches Nallur, but is unable to take any revenge on Singam, fearing the immense love and devotion of the entire village towards Singam. Using his political contacts, Mayil gets Singam transferred to Chennai to teach him a lesson. Unaware of Mayil's hand behind his transfer, Singam joins Thiruvanmiyur police station. His co-worker SI Ravi hates Mayil for his crimes, but is unable to take any action because of Mayil's political powers. Singam's senior Rajendran is on Mayil's payroll and takes care in concealing and eliminating evidence of Mayil's crimes from the law.
The
Singam successfully traces the origins of the kidnapping racket to Mayil and also gets promoted to
Mayil falsely tells Singam that he is going to
Cast
- Duraisingam, Anti-Kidnapping Task Force (formerly Inspector and Sub-Inspector)
- Anushka Shetty as Kavya Mahalingam, Singam's love interest
- Prakash Raj as Mayil Vaaganam
- Vivek as Head Constable Yettu Erimalai, Singam's colleague
- Adithyaas Vaikuntam, Mayilvaganam's brother
- Vijayakumar as Home Minister Ramanathan
- Nizhalgal Ravi as ACP Rajendran
- Radha Ravi as Soundarapandi, Singam's father
- Nassar as Mahalingam, Kavya's father
- Sumithra as Kalyani Soundarapandi, Singam's mother
- Janaki Sabesh as Bharathi Mahalingam, Kavya's mother
- Priya Atlee as Divya Mahalingam, Kavya's younger sister
- Yuvarani as Dhanalakshmi, Singam's sister
- Delhi Kumar as Kavya's grandfather
- Manorama as Kavya's grandmother
- Ajay Ratnamas K.Sekar IPS Commissioner of Chennai
- Bose Venkat as Sub-Inspector Ravi
- Manobala as Mayil's lawyer
- Kaajal Pasupathi as Police Officer
- Pandu as Maarichaamy
- Thyagu as Harbour Shanmugam
- Crane Manohar as Palani
- Besant Ravi as goon in theater
- Bharathi Kannan
- Subash Chander as Vengai Swami
- Vanaja as Sumathi
- Cell Murugan as Mumbai Rowdy
- Soundhar
- Suryakanth
- Nandha Saravanan as Mayil Vaaganam's henchman
- Jayamani
- Jayakanthan
- Karnaa Radha
- Vengaiya Balan
- Sakthivel
- Bobby
- Rathan Mouli as Jaishankar
- Vishwanth as Lover
- Kadhal Saravanan as Farmer
Production
Development
After Suriya had finished K. S. Ravikumar's Aadhavan, discussions regarding his subsequent project, notably his 25th film, were held. Initially, reports emerged that it was going to be directed by Prabhu Deva.[11] At the launch of his film Seval in May 2009, however, director Hari announced officially that he would direct Suriya's 25th film titled Singam and that he had finished penning the script.[11] Becoming Suriya's third film with Hari following Aaru and Vel, it was announced that the project would release in July 2010.[12] Suriya's cousin, K. E. Gnanavel Raja was announced as the producer.[13]
Casting
Devi Sri Prasad was chosen as the music director, thus becoming his third venture with Suriya. Suriya was revealed to play a police officer in the film, the second time in his career after Kaakha Kaakha.[14] Anushka was chosen to play the female lead after her second Tamil film Vettaikaaran.[12] Priyan was chosen as the lead camera man and V.T. Vijayan as the editor.[15]
Filming
After completing Seval, Hari joined the cast and crew to start the filming in 2009. The shooting began in
Soundtrack
Singam | ||||
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Feature film soundtrack | ||||
Label | Sony Music | |||
Producer | Devi Sri Prasad | |||
Devi Sri Prasad chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Behindwoods | *[20] |
The film's soundtrack, released on 9 May 2010, was scored by Devi Sri Prasad, marking his third collaboration with Suriya after Maayavi and Aaru and with Hari for second time after Aaru.
No. | Title | Lyrics | singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Naane Indhiran" | Manicka Vinayagam | 5:33 | |
2. | "En Idhayam" | Na. Muthukumar | Suchitra & Tippu | 4:34 |
3. | "Stole My Heart (Unplugged)" | Hari | Shaan | 2:19 |
4. | "Stole My Heart" | Viveka | Shaan, Megha | 3:37 |
5. | "Singam" | Na. Muthukumar, Megha | Devi Sri Prasad | 4:21 |
6. | "Kadhal Vandhale" | Viveka | Baba Sehgal & Priyadarshini | 4:22 |
Release
The film was released worldwide on 28 May 2010 released in 850 screens worldwide.
Reception
Critical reception
Behindwoods gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Hari has "concocted and packaged his masala contents in the right proportion and has served a tasty dish."
Box office
Singam was the third highest grossing Tamil film of the year in Chennai, collecting more than ₹5.38 crore there.[26] In Malaysia and the United Kingdom, the film collected $1,471,508 and $12,956 respectively.[27]
Remakes and dubbed versions
Singam was remade in multiple different languages; in Hindi as Singham (2011),[28] in Kannada as Kempe Gowda (2011) and in Punjabi as Singham (2019).[29]
It was dubbed in Telugu under the title Yamudu, and was released on 2 July 2010. Despite the Hindi remake, the film was dubbed in Hindi under the title The Fighterman Singham. [30]
Sequels
The film's success lead to two sequels:
Awards
Filmfare Awards South
- Winner of Best Dance Choreographer – Baba Bhaskarfor "Kadhal Vandhale"
- Nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil - Suriya
Legacy
Santhanam and Soori parodied Suriya's character in
Notes
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- ^ "Shankare Gowda To Remake Singam in Kannada As Kempe Gowda". Realbollywood.com. 23 August 2010. Archived from the original on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
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- ^ "Punjabi remake of 'Singham' has a release date". Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
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External links
- Singam at IMDb