When Ajay Devgn’s ‘Singham’ released in 2011, it brought about a revolution with respect to cop characters. In 2010, when Salman Khan brought Chulbul Pandey in ‘Dabangg’, people got over the portrayal of the latecomer and lazy cop in Bollywood and instead welcomed the macho image of the Indian cop. What followed was what everyone expected. ‘Dabangg’ was a huge hit and it kickstarted Salman’s spree of blockbuster films.
Just the next year, Ajay Devgn enthralled the audience with his character of the super cop, ‘Bajirao Singham’, who delivered justice to the people of Shivgarh and Goa and saved them from the clutches of Prakash Raj aka Jaykant Shikre. His dialogue, ‘Ata Majhi Satakli’ became an iconic dialogue from the ‘Singham’ franchise, just like ‘Hum tum mein itne chhed karenge….’ became iconic from ‘Dabangg’. The superhit blockbuster resulted in Rohit Shetty bringing in a sequel of the hit movie called ‘Singham Returns’, which again was a huge hit. And then in 2018 came ‘Simmba’, starring Ranveer Singh, Sonu Sood and Sara Ali Khan, again by Rohit Shetty, which brought a sense of freshness into the cop franchise. And what’s coming next is something that is bigger than the biggest so far. ‘Sooryavanshi’, starring Akshay Kumar, is all set to entertain the audience to perfection and in all probability, it will have a thrilling scene of Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh together.
But nobody can deny the contribution of the original ‘Singham’ in making the cop franchise such a huge success. So as ‘Singham’ completed 8 years in the industry today, here’s what Ajay Devgn has to say –
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