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''Singh Is Bliing'' is a 2015 Indian
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-language
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directed by
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and produced by Ashvini Yardi under Grazing Goat Pictures, which provided the story and screenplay. The film stars
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,
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,
Lara Dutta Lara Dutta (born 16 April 1978) is an Indian actress, entrepreneur and the winner of the Miss Universe 2000 pageant. She was previously crowned as Miss Intercontinental 1997. In her career, she has primarily worked in Hindi films. She is the ...
and
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. It is a
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to the 2008 film '' Singh Is Kinng''. ''Singh Is Bliing'' was released in global cinemas on 2 October 2015, coinciding with
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, to mixed reviews from critics. Despite of getting mixed to negative reviews the film became a 'HIT' at the box office by grossing over 135crores worldwide against a budget of 70crores with all praise for Kumar's performance . It was amongst the highest grossers of the year.


Plot

Raftaar Singh (
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) is a nice and fun-loving but uneducated man, with a mischievous and humorous character. He is thrown out of his home by his father who gives him an ultimatum: if he wants to come back, he must get into business with Kirpal Singh in Goa or marry a woman called Sweetie whom he doesn't like. Raftaar chooses the former. Meanwhile, Sara Rana (
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) is shown living in
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with her father, who made bad choices and works for the mafia. Mark, a mafia boss, wants to marry Sara but is rejected by Sara and her father, and shoots Mr Rana in anger. Sara manages to escape to
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where she hopes to find her estranged mother. Raftaar meets Kirpal Singh and lies about speaking
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in order to get a job taking care of Sara while she is in India. Raftaar and his friends meet Sara at the airport; finding that Sara does not understand Hindi, Raftaar hires a translator, Emily (
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). Sara meets Kirpal and feels safe but presumes Raftaar to be a bad guy. Sara's opinion changes when she sees Raftaar helping a woman who was bothered by a bunch of goons. When these goons later come after Raftaar, they are beaten-up by Sara. Emily is shocked to see that Sara can fight, but Sara warns Emily not to reveal about the incident to Raftaar. Raftaar's friends and Sara are kidnapped by the same goons; Raftaar tries to save them but gets badly beaten. Sara later fights all the goons away and begins to fall for Raftaar. Kirpal feels happy with Raftaar's performance and soon becomes a successful businessman with his help. Mark learns that Sara is in Goa and sends his men to bring her back. Raftaar and Sara try to flee but their car is hit and Raftaar is beaten-up. He later fights them all except for a woman who is beaten-up by Sara. On Kirpal's advice, Raftaar takes Sara to his family home in Punjab. Sara meets Raftaar's parents, and seeing Raftaar with them she reminisces of her childhood and cheers-up. Raftaar's father asks Sara about her relationship with Raftaar, and she reveals that she is in love with him. Earlier, Emily had handed responsibility to Raftaar to find Sara's lost mother, and they return to Goa where Sara sees her mother with a child, thinking her mother had a second marriage and is happily living her life. Sara decides to go back to Romania, saying she would never return. Raftaar feels heartbroken seeing her leave. In Romania, Sara finds her father recovering in hospital. Raftaar finds Sara's mother and brings her to Romania, reuniting the family, and Sara confesses her love to Raftaar. Raftaar decides to marry Sara, telling his family and purchasing a cake, flowers and new clothes. He goes to church but is angered when he finds Sara about to marry Mark. Sara refuses to marry Mark, who challenges Raftaar to a fight. Raftaar manages to beat Mark and his men but is shot. Sara is worried that Raftaar may die, but he wakes after remembering the lessons taught by his father and resumes the fight with Mark. Raftaar is able to beat the mafia and Mark, who dies after saying "You're too good, ''sardaar'' " ( 'chieftain' or 'leader'), with Raftaar left hanging by the side of a bridge. Sara and Raftaar confirm their love for each other, and Raftaar is saved and returns to Punjab to celebrate his happiness with his friends, family, and Sara. The film ends with Raftaar and Sara performing a song together.


Cast

*
Akshay Kumar Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia (born 9 September 1967), known professionally as Akshay Kumar (), is an Indian-born naturalised Canadian Quote: "(Former prime minister Stephen) Harper campaigned in 2011 alongside one of Modi's biggest celebrity backer ...
as Raftaar Singh *
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as Sara Rana *
Kay Kay Menon Krishna Kumar Menon (born 2 October 1966), better known by the stage name Kay Kay Menon, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and also in Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu cinema. Early life Menon was born in a Nair fa ...
as Mark *
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as Emily * Pradeep Rawat as Kirpal Singh *
Anil Mange Anil Charanjeett, also known as Anil Mange, is an Indian Bollywood film actor who has worked in films like '' PK'', '' Singh Is Bling'', '' Raees'' and ''Hasee Toh Phasee''. He gave a special appearance in the song "Main Badhiya Tu Bhi Badhiya" f ...
as Pompy *
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as Pappy *
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as Harpreet Kaur, Raftaar's mother *
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as Raftaar's father *
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as Mr. Rana, Sara's FatherShashi Kapoor's son Kunal Kapoor returns to acting with Akshay Kumar's 'Singh Is Bliing'
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* Ali Haidar as the airline passenger (special appearance)
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cameos as a man in the washroom and in the song "Singh and Kaur". Also
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cameos as a woman who Singh mistakes for Sara in the airport.


Production


Development

In early 2014, it was announced that actor Akshay Kumar and director Prabhudheva would be reuniting for another film after their previous blockbuster, ''
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''. Soon after, it was confirmed that the film would be titled 'Singh Is Bliing' and was to be produced by Grazing Goat Pictures. Kumar had also shot some scenes with a lion. Kumar made it clear that the film was not a sequel to his 2008 film '' Singh Is Kinng''.


Casting

After
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was signed for the lead role,
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was replaced by
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for the female lead. After training for the role, Sanon opted out of the film and was replaced by
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.
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, who was last seen in the 2013 film ''David'', made a comeback with ''Singh Is Bling''. It was reported that actor
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would play the negative role in the film, but he was replaced by
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as the main antagonist, Mark. Actor
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, who was last in the 1985 film ''
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'', was signed to play Sara Rana's father.


Filming

Principal photography started in early April 2015. Kumar posted a photo on
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stating the film's first day shoot.Akshay Kumar's tweet
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. 2 April 2015
The film started its first day shoot in
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. Portions of the film were reportedly shot in
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in early May 2015. The final portion of the film including the climax was reportedly shot in
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's
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in the first week of July.Akshay Kumar to shoot 'Singh is Bliing' climax scene in Count Dracula's castle
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. Mohar Basu. 17 July 2015


Release


Objections by Sikh clergy

Shri
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''
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'' (the highest member of the Sikh clergy),
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, objected to scenes in the film's trailer. He said that equating Holy Golden Temple with
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is highly objectionable, as were film posters which had Kada with inscribed ''
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'' shown with semi-clad women. It was appealed that
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should be consulted by all film producers before producing movies showing Sikh characters, religious places or religious symbols.


Censorship

Some Sikh organisations raised objections to scenes of the film which contained
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used as a weapon and the lead character's turban being set on fire.
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decided to delete these scenes from the film. Kumar screened the movie for the organisations to ensure nothing that would hurt the Sikh community was shown.


Critical response

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'' described the comedy as "random and silly", but commented that "it is this randomness that also makes it a breezy, entertaining film". Devesh Sharma from ''
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'' wrote that filmgoers should "watch the film if you like cornball comedies". Shubhra Gupta from ''
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'', however, was less receptive to the film, which she rated 1.5 stars of 5, expounding, "The only thing which saves it is that it wears its silliness proudly on its hero's 'pug' (turban)". Rohit Vats from ''
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'' noted the film's plot holes, poor screenplay and problematic dialogue. Saibal Chatterjee from ''
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'' wrote, "What is irretrievably amiss with the film is that nothing it says manages to drift anywhere near some degree of coherence." Surbhi Redkar from ''
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'' commented, "Akshay Kumar's ''Singh Is Bliing'' is enjoyable in parts but as a whole it is not up to the mark. It loses its bling over time and you are just left watching the silly antics of Mr. Singh." Tushar Joshi from ''
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'' wrote, "''Singh is Bliing'' has some genuinely funny moments and Lara Dutta brings a certain freshness to the film." ''
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'' wrote, "Overall, ''Singh is Bliing'' does not disappoint. One steps in expecting mindless humour, entertainment and some fairly good performances and on that front the film delivers. That there would be a spectacular story was never an expectation". Bishwajit Aribam from
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said that the film seemed to be a copy of the 2006
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n film ''My Wife is a Gangster 3''.


Soundtrack

The soundtrack album of ''Singh is Bliing'' consists of eight songs with an unplugged versions and two remix versions.
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composed only one song titled "Tung Tung Baaje",
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composed one song titled "Cinema Dekhe Mamma" and
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also composed one song "Dil Kare Chu Che".
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composed two tracks "Singh And Kaur", "Mahi Aaja", the remix versions of the two tracks he composed and an unplugged version of the song "Mahi Aaja".
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composed the film score. The lyrics were penned by Sneha Khanwalkar, Manj Musik, Nindy Kaur,
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, Big Dhillon,
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, Irfan Kamal and
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. A single from the film "Tung Tung Baaje" was launched digitally on 12 August 2015, and was premiered with another Akshay Kumar-starrer ''
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'' on 14 August 2015, which is something new for a Bollywood film. The full album was released on 28 August 2015, and received positive reviews from critics. Popular music website Glamsham rated the album 3.5 out of 5 stars and stated that "The album does manage to live up to its expectations" and chose "Tung Tung Baaje", "Singh And Kaur" and "Maahi Aaja" as their picks.


Box office

The film became Kumar's highest-opener, beating the previous record of ''Brothers'' as it collected net on its opening day. On its second day the film collected net. The film collected net on its third day, bringing its first weekend total to an estimated . By the end of its first week, the film collected approximately net. The film grossed over ₹1.25 billion worldwide by the end of its theatrical run.


Overseas

The film grossed on first two days of its release overseas.Singh Is Bliing Overseas Box Office Report
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References


External links

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