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Kya baat hai. Simmba Singh, congratulations.
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#SIMMBA ROARS!!!!!
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Simmba
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Sara Ali Khan, Ajay Devgn
Director: Rohit Shetty
Rating: 3
Sangram Bhalerao has the word Police' tattooed on his forearm. This is not, as I first wondered, to remind the Assistant Commissioner what it is he does, but instead to exult in the power it gives him. Simmba, as he is nicknamed, grew up focussed on being a corrupt cop, and played by a relentless Ranveer Singh he appears to be loving it. Singh bites his lower lip while chasing crooks, as if turned on by his own valour, and walks with an odd crotch-first strut, as if a giant magnet is yanking at his zipper.
This is a spinoff of Rohit Shetty's alarmingly successful Singham movies, and in my review, I had called the first film"Devgnpo*n, based on its fondness for crotch and caboose shots of its tight-trousered hero. In Simmba, with a cutesy title pointing out the cub of a lion king, Singh seems less concerned about his look than his feel. He embraces the trashy 80s-remake lunacy and creates a corrupt wisecracker more Deadpool than Devgn.
Singh beats people up as if he really, really wants to, and dialogues fly out of his mouth as if he's making them up. Most of these like a play on the word farz' which can mean both duty and example, or when he calls someone his "bhai from another aai earn solid laughs, and Singh's glee is infectious as he bounds from scene to scene in tightly tucked shirts, both invincible and inflatable.
He then falls for Sara Ali Khan. It is love at first leer as the cop ogles the young girl from across the street. The actress is good here, attractive and atypical. I wish she had more to do, though, than dreamily talk about her late father, the legendary encounter cop.' Over and over again, her task is to lovingly fetishize the act of staged brutality. Like in Kedarnath earlier this month, Khan once again makes a strapping hero feel tongue-tied and takes charge as the one to initiate romance.
The laughs dry up. Based on the Telugu potboiler Temper, Simmba takes an inevitable turn for the serious. This could have been disastrous, given how much Shetty telegraphs his actions. You can not only predict the inescapably horrid fate awaiting a local girl once Simmba starts calling her a sister, but you know how the hero will kick the doors open or precisely when he'll earn a salute from the honest policeman. Yet Singh dials up the intensity, spittle underscoring his passionate declarations, and the show stays compelling.
This is Shetty's best work, a film of unflagging tempo with a genuinely charismatic lead, and while the actual story about a bad cop who starts avenging rapes isn't interesting or original, Shetty keeps it entertaining, even if the film is longer than it needed to be. We can debate the need for these throwback films, and it is certainly problematic to see way rape used as a mere trigger for the leading man to turn good, but, as it stands, Simmba is not only ahead of Singham, but far superior to Dabanng, the blockbuster that defines the genre.
Shetty plays at balance, giving decisive roles to female characters judge, mother, policewomen in a film that claims to be about rape, but this film is still all musk. Sonu Sood makes for an effective towering villain, while Singh pats his gun so long and hard that the film briefly turns into a Western. By the time Simmba meets his idol, the homoerotic energy is off the charts: two grunting men who look ready to tear each other's uniforms off and throw down right there, drunk on their own testosterone. These two stars not jumping each other is the ultimate cop out.
At the end, we're teased with a glimpse of another hirsute alpha male joining this franchise next year, setting up an interconnected universe of khaki-clad movies. These men don't need women. The sequel could be called Threesome.
Director: Rohit Shetty
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Sara Ali Khan, Sonu Sood, Ajay Devgn
Composer: S Thaman, Tanishk Bagchi, Lijo George DJ Chetas, Chandan Saxena, Amar Mohile
Ranveer Singh's sing-song voice or some may call it a conscious style choice can go a long way in making terrible films tolerable, or for minutes here and there, even enjoyable. He plays Sangram Bhalerao aka Simmba, the corrupt police officer with a flashback right out of the 70s films in Rohit Shetty's eponymous film. Its mythological potency is questionable at best but Shetty films it almost in monochrome when a young Simmba is selling tickets in black for Andaz Apna Apna. We can imagine a young Ranveer Singh, the kitsch magnet, channelling all his enthusiasm into that dream job. And then the colours burst forth and it makes us wonder if this is a film from the Mumbai industry or from Ramoji Film City.
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Ranveer Singh in Simmba speaks in verse with an obsessive compulsion to rhyme. Shetty and Singh (screenplay by Sajid Samji, Yunus Sajawal, dialogues by Farhad Samji) are just as obsessed with this quality in Simmba that even when he is hit by a life altering tragedy, they don't take it away from him. Even the hurt, distraught Simmba lays out his syllables as if he was in some spoken word competition. Thanks to the setting of the film the border of Goa and Maharashtra Simmba even slips into Marathi but Singh sells the part at all times in all slangs. Half the lines work only because they are coming from Singh and a one about ice, water, alcohol and the moon brought the house down.
For more Telugu cinema call-backs, there is Sonu Sood playing the antagonist Dhurva Ranade and we have an early scene where the villain himself portends the greatness of the hero. That's textbook myth building but Shetty tosses them one after another like they are checklist items that mean nothing more. But if you are looking for the whistles, Ranveer Singh is there to provide those aplenty like when he dances on the job into a pub along with his fellow police officers. Rarely have our superhero police officers on screen stopped being uptight (outside of the song sequences) but Ranveer Singh will not let that continue. In a serious scene when he has drawn the final blood, quite literally, Simmba closes with a sick burn about having found all relationships except for the brotherly kind. Singh almost plays Simmba like a spoof on every police officer part that we've known. Only if it had been like that from start to finish.
Shetty shifts gears and decelerates, bringing in rape and associated monstrosities of how it is wielded in popular cinema. Simmba meets Shagun (Sara Ali Khan whose eyes and legs can match Ranveer Singh's energy on the dance floor), the daughter of slain encounter specialist. Apart from Shagun, every woman in the film is co-opted as mother or sister by Simmba so that the prevalent mood and emotions can be extorted for maximum discomfort. Shetty even pushes for a tasteless candle light vigil sequence and a Nirbhaya mention. We have two problematic themes coming together the way speeding four-wheelers come at each other in Shetty's films rape and extrajudicial killings.
Multiple characters proclaim multiple times that murder is the only judgement for rapists and solution to rape. Rohit Shetty was better off making comedy films that failed to make you laugh. Now he's entered a dangerous ideological territory with no filmmaking chops to speak of. So, whatever we see and will probably get to see in the future is bound to come free of nuance. Simmba's catchphrase is "tell me something I don't know.
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*****
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Does anyone know where this site gets its numbers? It says that Simmba has only made 17cr over two days?? Not sure if maybe it is just tracking tickets sold through its website?
https://in.bookmyshow.com/movies/box-office/simmba-box-office-collections/EG00046758
Simmba Box Office Day 2 Early Trends: Rohit Shetty's latest masala entertainer Simmba, is roaring at the box office. Getting energetic actor Ranveer Singh on board for the heroic cop role has spelled the magic amongst the masses. After taking a thunderous start, the movie showed a solid growth on its second day.
Amidst the hoopla of big releases like Race 3, Thugs Of Hindostan andZero, Simmba is proved to be a dark horse at the box office. After raking a huge figure of 20.72 crores on opening day, the movie jumped terrifically on day 2.
Simmba Box Office Day 2 Early Trends: It's A BLOCKBUSTER Saturday!As per the early trends, Simmba has earned in the range of 25-27 crores on Saturday. If the early trends are to be believed, the movie will end in the range of 45-47 crores after 2 days. After collecting such numbers in two days, the movie is now heading to record one of the highest weekends of the year.
Screenwriter-director Farhad Samji recently said that due to his 11-year-old association with filmmaker Rohit Shetty, he feels that the kind of chemistry he shares with the Singham director would be difficult to have with others.
Farhad had teamed up with Rohit for films like Golmaal 3, Bol Bachchan and Chennai Express. The two joined forces again, this time for the cop film Simmba.
"We have done 11 films together so we are more than a family. We know each other's strengths and weaknesses. I have worked with other directors also, but with Rohit Shetty, it's very clear. He knows what I want to convey. I also know what he wants from me. That kind of a chemistry...I guess I'll hardly have it with others, Farhad told IANS.
allover single nd multiplexces early morning shows HUGE advance booking for afternoon nd evening shows advance suggesting 30cr day on cards BLOCKBUSTER 
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#Simmba SATURDAY!!! As expected #RanveerSingh starrer registered a marginal jump on Saturday and collected 24.50 cr (Approx). Sunday is expected to be in the same line. From Monday onwards film will drop more than 60%; which means 100 cr can be little difficult to achieve.
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