The King is Akshay!

Once in a blue moon, Bollywood gets new additions to its long list of formulaic, cliched but surprisingly entertaining paisa vasool movies. In recent months, I remember laughing my heart out watching Shirish Kunder's "Jaanemann" and his better half's SRK starrer 'OSO'. "Singh is Kinng" belongs in the same genre. Its so silly and at the same time, so entertaining that your stomach literally aches out of laughing. Akshay Kumar carries the movie on his shoulders and he is present in almost every frame of the movie.
The storyline has essentially nothing new and it is the story of Happy Singh(Akshay) who ends up as a troublemaker for his friends and foes irrespective of his intentions and he is cleverly packed off to Australia to bring back Lucky Singh(Sonu Sood) who is a fellow-villager-turned-Don, bringing disgrace to the entire community. Happy meets Lady Love (who is seeing someone else) in the way and in a turn of events ends up substituting Lucky as the King.
Packed with insane jokes and intimidating situations, the director gets it right in terms of comic timing. Tit bit jokes stuffed into serious sequences sets the audience on a laugh riot. Most strikings are the sad stories narrated by Yashpal Sharma's character on almost every sequence. The bunch of actors including Yashpal Sharma, Javed Jaffrey,Neha Dhupia fits into the narrative perfectly. Om Puri and Kiran Kher does well in the roles. Katrina-Pretty-Kaif looks more ravishing than ever and she has amazing screen presence.
Akshay dons a never before look in the turban and towards the half of the movie, he dons an extremely stylish look and the song "Bas Ek King" stands out in terms of style. The movie is produced by Vipul Shah who is a renowned director himself and Sanjay F Gupta (renowned DVD rip-off specialist director) does a neat job as the joint Cinematographer. The presence of two directors in the set seems to have helped Aneez Bazmee. I had carefully avoided his previous movies -Welcome and No Entry. But something made me get into the theatre the first night itself and it was really worth it. Akshay is infact the Kinng and he is already the other superstars a run for their money!!