Singham Again Cast: Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Tiger Shroff, Arjun Kapoor Director: Rohit Shetty Rating: 3/5 Rohit Shetty is probably the biggest showman in Bollywood right now. With Singham Again and the idea of a cop universe, he has pulled off the biggest mainstream casting in the last 25 years. With at least five top commercially viable actors—Ajay, Akshay, Ranveer, Deepika and Kareena—he has made the canvas of Singham Again so big that it is most likely to become the ‘go to’ movie of this year.
However, it could have easily gone wrong if he couldn’t give enough space to all the stars and their mass appeal while also not letting the narrative Singham Again wants to establish slip away. That is where the hero Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) steps up and holds everything together. Over the years, he has become synonymous with the perfect cop every commercial filmmaker in Bollywood wants to adopt.
With Singham Again, he has been given a promotion and the responsibility to make the spread bigger and bolder. Thanks to his physicality, he has mastered the art of cop presence in this one. His body language never lets your attention drift from the Ramayana adaptation in which the villain Zubair (Arjun Kapoor) unleashes mayhem.
On expected lines, the Ramayana has been turned into a cops versus terrorists plot where everyone—from Simbaa (Ranveer Singh) to Sooryavanshi (Akshay Kumar)—join the ‘most respected’ police offi.