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Moved.....

Saturday, August 9, 2008 by Mr.J

This blog has moved to its new location at

www.JagdeepSingh.com

see you there..

Singh is King Movie My Point of View

Friday, August 8, 2008 by Mr.J

"Singh is King" is a Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in lead roles. About 75% of the movie was shot in Australia, around the Gold Coast region and Brisbane using an Australian production team (Instinct India).

Akshay Kumar plays Happy Singh. He's truly a King at heart - brave, compassionate, noble and helpful. But he's an equally flawed human - gullible, foolhardy and accident - prone. Circumstances often overwhelm him and his efforts to do good almost always have the opposite effect. In fact, each time he sets out to help somebody, his entire village shudders at the prospect of impending disaster, when they send him on a mission that's seemingly impossible, they underestimate his ability to not just overcome the odds but also transform those he encounters on a journey that takes him halfway across the world.

Its a story about Happy Singh, a Punjabi Sikh. He is very mischievous and gets involved in a number of disastrous situations, so the villagers plan to send him to Australia to bring back his fellow villager, Lucky Singh. It is then revealed that Lucky is an underworld Don in Australia. Then, in an accident, Happy saves Lucky but still Lucky becomes paralysed. Hence, Happy becomes the new king of the Australian Underworld.

Here is my take on this movie. First you need to know I've not seen it yet but I've read alot of reviews on this movie.

The storyline is similar to “Jo Bole So Nihaal”. Thats just fine but the question arises what this storyline has to do with the title “Singh is King” and a Sikh hero. It simply shows that the Sikh element was roped in to cash on to the Punjabi people (not only Sikhs) living all over the globe. The first half of the movie does has its moments but not in the required quantity. The second half dips down with unwanted love triangle plot and the viewer is left asking for more.

Personally I think the whole movie is very dis-respectful to the Sikh community and portray Sikhs unfavorably (a guy with turban and no beard) to the movie's patrons. There are many scenes which I question the message it sends to young sikh kids but some people will argue its only a movie and no point making a big who-haah about it.

Akshay Kumar did apologized to the Sikh community for certain parts of the film where Sikhs were not portrayed respectfully, he said "If I've made a mistake, lord forgive me and I will try to rectify my mistake," and the filmmaker Vipul said "We wanted to make sure that the community is happy with the film, that is why we went up to them and showed the film to them. There are some changes they expected us to make and we have done that,"

So at then end, I think this movie is very disappointing but should be entertaining . You can bet to see young Sikh kids and teens running around singing the theme song "Singh is King" everywhere. Maybe some good will come out of this movie...who knows.

Thinking of Upgrading my mobile to Nokia E71

by Mr.J

I fell in love with this beautiful mobile phone The Nokia E71 is awesome, its just the right size and has WLan and Bluetooth. They made it easy for the owner to read their emails on the phone its self. Thats just perfect for me because I cant live without my emails. I get about 200 emails daily and I have to reply at least 20% of them on a daily basis. With this phone, I can reply my emails while having my morning cup of coffee. Its just cool and the price is right too. Its about RM1999 original and AP goes for RM1500.