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I watched this movie over the weekend, and I thought it was pretty darned good. It is so realistic and well-made that it makes you proud of our Indian stars. Sometimes I feel that stars like Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri don't get enough applause for their work at the Cinemas. Anyway, the movie, had nothing to do with India. It had a lot to do with London and an equal lot to do with Pakistan though.

Naseeruddin Shah is a British Muslim cop who is torn between duty, family and religion - and the movie revolves around him. He is one of the many Muslims who has a good head on his shoulders, and does not agree with the average Extremist's line of thought. In the entire movie, it appears as though Om Puri has come to London only to be a pain in Shah's rear end. Gulshan Grover is a loyal friend, nonetheless, and despises Om Puri equally, if not more. The rest of Shah's immediate family looks and behaves like goras, i.e. very understanding wife who speaks a few Hindi words to make the audience laugh, teenage brat for a daughter, daft football fan for a son. Even Shah's nephew who's supposed to have come from Pakistan, as a student, looks and sounds like a gora, but acts pretty much like a Pakistani otherwise.

I can divulge only this much without spoiling the plot. Well, as the name of the movie suggests, this is not a funny movie, so if you're looking for more laughs than a movie with that title can manage, you should be sitting at home or else be watching Singh is King.