Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham Again’ is a retelling of the ‘Ramayana’ as a generically watchable action movie

For a while, the star appearances and action scenes keep things afloat. But after a point, the parallels between this story and the ‘Ramayana’ become too much. The film begins to take itself too seriously and stops being fun.

There have been many adaptations of the Ramayana in Hindi cinema. One category of films deals directly with the epic, like the recent Adi Purush. The other category is more interesting, and it deals with stories “based on” the epic. In the 1980s, we had the Manoj Kumar-starrer Kalyug Aur Ramayan, where a modern-day avatar of Hanuman solves the problems in the family of a man named Dashrath. In the 90s, we had Sooraj Barjatya’s Hum Saath-Saath Hain, in which an insecure stepmother caused the eldest son of an industrial family to be banished, so that her own son could become CEO. In the 2000s, we had Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Dilli 6, where events in the protagonist’s life are paralleled with events from a neighbourhood staging of Ramlila. In the 2010s, we got Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, a psychological drama that played with the perspective of hero and villain. And now, in Singham Again, we have Rohit Shetty setting his Cop Universe against the backdrop of the Ramayana.

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