Simmba Smila !

Simmba Smila !

Dabang meets Singham meets Zanzeer . And you get Simmba. And you do smila once in a while. Rohit Shetty probably looked at all the mess around in the industry with the biggies landing with a thud everytime they tried to mimic a Hollywood film so he jogs backwards into Singham territory  with the new boy on the block Ranveer. There is absolutely no need to prattle on about the tale. Same old tried and tested stuff. Jangling Lezim sounds with loud male and Female chorus introduce us to a corrupt inspector who comes into a new Goan town to be more corrupt , at  cross roads with the local mafia landlord - six packed rippling Sonu Sood , befriending a local teacher who does charity by night , obviously gets into trouble with the local goons for trying to prevent children from being used as mules and leaving the rest of the story for the corrupt inspector to find his zameer and close loose ends with help from Rohit's lucky mascots from his past and future films

It is something we grew up with. We knew in our Badla movies , every time a girl got too happy and exchanged mushy affection with her Brother, she gets into trouble in the following scene. It is left to the brother to burst veins and bash up the villains who seem to be defying various laws of physics.  They spin around so much that I estimated they would generate electricity with a few more fights. 

Cars are smashed around less,  though one police jeep does makes its crashing appearance to save the hero, almost killing him in the process.

And yet I was not displeased. I  wondered if it was the extreme anger and frustration at the previous Zero Sum.

Simmba is all about Ranveer  who is a director's man and you cannot help admiring the sheer fun that the man is. However it is disappointing that Rohit had to dilute his equity in the end and bring in his tried and trusted horse from the previous works.Thought it was totally unnecessary and distracted from the tightness that the director had managed to build up.

The humour is almost pedestrian but one that is likely to draw whistles due to the earthy nature of the dialogues and the delivery.Sara Ali Khan is an amazingly confident and has no justice done to her presence. She ends up looking like Sonakshi from Dabang.Rohit should be careful about trying this Singham and Simmba track again as it is getting boring with no innovative twists in the tale.

If you have been frustrated with the recent Mulitplex visits and are already done with the offerings on Netflix then this multiplex outing won’t hurt you but it is not outstanding academic cinema. Just feel good for the good boy that Ranveer genuinely seems to be, marvel at Sonu's fitness, feel happy that a very confident Sara is round the corner, that Rohit provides a lot of occupation to spinning humans and cars, some bold dress designs though not as gaudy as before and finally smile at the super exploited packaging of multiple franchises that the director is promoting and of course directing 

**½