Singh Is Kinng

Singh Is Kinng Sic Hindi सिंह इज़ किंग Punjabi ਸਿੰਘ ਇਜ਼ ਕਿੰਗ Is A 2008 Bollywood Film. The Film Is Directed By Anees Bazmee And Stars Akshay Kumar And Katrina Kaif. About 75% Of The Movie Was Shot In Australia Around The Gold Coast Region And Brisbane Using An Australian Production Team Instinct India . The Film Was Released On 8 August 2008. 2 Kumar Has Been Nominated For Best Actor At The 3rd Asian Film Awards For His Performance In The Film. 3 The Spelling Of The Word "king" In The Film's Title With An Additional Letter "n" Was Based On Advice Provided By A Numerologist 4 A Practice Which Has Become Routine In Bollywood. Plot Summary ------ Lakhan Singh Sonu Sood Also Called "Lucky " Is The "kinng" Of The Australian Underworld And Is The First "Singh Is Kinng" Of The Film's Title. He Is Accompanied By His Associates Julie Neha Dhupia Mika Jaaved Jaffrey Pankaj Udaas Yashpal Sharma Raftaar Sudhanshu Pandey And Dilbaugh Singh Manoj Pahwa . Far Away From Australia In A Small Village In Punjab The City In India Where Lucky Was Born Exists A Criminal More Notorious Than Lucky Himself—Happy Singh Akshay Kumar . Happy Has Caused Many Problems And Disastrous Situations In The Village And The Villagers Are Fed Up With Him. They Decide To Send Happy On A Long Trip To Australia With His Friend Rangeela Om Puri To Bring Lucky Back To Punjab Which Will Keep Happy Out Of The Village For Some Time And Bring Peace To The Village. But At The Airport Happy's And Rangeela's Tickets To Australia Are Accidentally Exchanged With That Which A Stranger Named Puneet Was Hoping To Use To Fly To Egypt And They Reach The Opposite Places. In Egypt Happy Helps Sonia Katrina Kaif And Falls Deeply In Love With Her. But He Does Not Express His Love To Her. Instead Leaving Her Behind He Heads Towards Australia To Meet Lucky. Lucky Refuses To Return To His Home-Town And Throws Happy And Rangeela Out Of The House Where He Has Been Living. Penniless Happy Finds Warmth And Affection In An Elderly Lady Kirron Kher Who Provides Him With Food When He Was Starving In Spite Of Being A Stranger. Lucky Winds Up In Hospital Paralyzed After A Series Of Violent Incidents That Happy Causes. In One Of These Incidents His Head Is Bumped Severely And The Trauma From The Resultant Concussion Is What Paralyzes Him. Happy Unexpectedly Receives The Title Of Kinng—thereby Becoming The Other "Singh Is Kinng" Of The Film's Title. Alas Happy Is Not Proud Of His Rank And Is Kind-Hearted. The Lady Who Helped Happy Is Really Worried And Depressed As Her Daughter Is Returning From Egypt With Her Wealthy Boyfriend Puneet—the Man At The Airport With Whose Ticket Happy's And Rangeela's Were Accidentally Switched. In The Film Ranvir Shorey Acted Out The Role. The Daughter Does Not Know That After The Death Of Her Father Years Ago Her Mother Became Poverty-Stricken And Was Reduced To Work As A Flower Seller. Happy Gives The Flower-Seller His Spacious House And Makes All His Mafia Associates Work As Workers. The Lady's Daughter Arrives—and To Happy's Horror She Turns Out To Be Sonia Worse For Him Her Boyfriend Puneet Is With Her! Happy Heart-Broken Is Forced To Make A Show Of Happiness To Sonia. Puneet Says That He Too Would Have Had A Good Time With Happy And Sonia In Egypt Had His Ticket To Egypt Not Been Exchanged In The Airport Because Of Which Mistake He Had Ended Up In Australia Instead. Puneet Had Always Been Jealous Of Sonia Being With Happy Strangely However He Doubts That Anything Is Going On Between Them. He And Sonia Squabble About This Topic It Is Happy Who Handles It. In Spite Of Herself Sonia Falls In Love With Happy—and The Truth Becomes Difficult To Hide. Sonia Becomes Aware Of Her Poverty And That In Addition To Keeping It Hidden From Her Happy Had Helped Her Mother. Puneet Sets His Heart To Marry Sonia. Sonia Gets Trapped In An Emotional Tug-Of-War Between Puneet Who Loves Her And Happy Whom She Loves. Puneet Meets A Man Named Mika Who Is The Associate And Brother Of The Kinng And Who Agrees To Kill Happy. Puneet's Motives To Kill Happy However Differ From Mika's Puneet Wants To Kill Happy To Keep Sonia Away From Him Whereas Mika Wants To Kill Happy To Make Himself Kinng. The Marriage Day Dawns And There Is Firing All Because Julie Drops Some Guns . Puneet Hides While The Pandit Chants The Mantras His Head Totally Covered By A Pot Amidst Gunfire All Around While Happy And Sonia Are Running Together Around The Fire Seven Times. During All This Lucky's Head Is Bumped And The Trauma-Induced Paralysis He Had Suffered From Is Relieved. Happy And Sonia Eventually Get Married Making Them A Couple. Suddenly Mika Turns Up On The Spot Ready To Kill Happy Armed With A Gang And His New Special Glasses And Hearing Aid. As He Is About To Shoot Lucky Steps Up And Stops Him. Then A Dialogue Ensues Between Mika Happy Lucky And The Associates Of The Kinng Sic . Then Happy Tells Him That Being The "king" Is No Great Thing. Lucky Confesses That He Always Found Sadness Being Kinng Because A True King Does Not Fight For Himself But For Others. Overcome With Remorse Mika Drops His Revolver. The Movie Ends Happily With Happy's And Sonia's Marriage Off To A Start. Cast -----
Akshay Kumar As Happy Singh
Katrina Kaif As Sonia
Om Puri As Rangeela
Kiron Kher As Rose Lady Sonia's Mom Sonu Sood As Lucky Singh Kinng Ranvir Shorey As Puneet
Javed Jaffrey As Mika Singh/Puneet's Father
Sudhanshu Pandey As Raftaar
Neha Dhupia As Julie
Yashpal Sharma As Pankaj Udaas Sad Manoj Pahwa As Dilbaugh Singh
Kamal Chopra As Guru Ji
Eli Bernstein As Disco Dancer
Banu Papa As Baby Boy
Peter Coates As The Pilot
James Foster As Another Pilot
Snoop Dogg As Himself
Michael Carolan As Himself Music -----
The Music Was Composed By Pritam . The Song "Singh Is Kinng" Was Composed By The British Bhangra Band RDB. The Soundtrack Was Launched Officially At The IIFA Awards In Bangkok On 8 June 2008 Where Akshay Kumar And RDB Performed Two Songs From The Soundtrack. The Film's Music Received Particular Attention In The United States Due To The Involvement Of Rapper Snoop Dogg Who Has A Cameo In The Film Performing The Title Song. Snoop Dogg's Performance Has Been Described As "the First Time That A Mainstream American Artist Has Performed On A Bollywood Soundtrack". Crew ------
Directed By Anees Bazmee
Produced By Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Distributed By Adlabs
Music By Pritam And RDB
Stunts By Allan Amin Box Office
Singh Is Kinng Had A Record Opening In India. It Opened To 95–100% Occupancy. Its Weekend Net Gross Was Rs. 29 Crores Breaking The Previous Record Of Rs. 22 Crores Set By Om Shanti Om. Singh Is Kinng Went On To Gross Rs. 43.77 Crores In The First Week In India Alone. This Broke The Record For The Highest Opening Week Gross Also Previously Held By Om Shanti Om Which Grossed Rs. 41 Crores In First Week In 2007. Singh Is Kinng Has Netted INR 684.8 Million In India And Is Currently The 11th Highest-Grossing Film According To Net Collections. It Is Also Kumar's Highest-Grossing Film Till Date. It Did Record Breaking Business In Delhi Rajasthan And East Punjab Whereas The Rest Of India It Did Good Business. Worldwide Singh Is Kinng Had Excellent Opening. It Shattered Records In Pakistan. It Has Grossed Over 2 Crores In Pakistan In Two Weeks Which Is A Record For Any Indian Film. In North America It Grossed $1.1 Million USD In The First Weekend. In The UK It Grossed Approximately $1 Million USD. It Grossed $35 Million Worldwide As Stated On The DVD . read less