Rohit Shetty is a successful film maker in Bollywood and knows the pulse of Hindi film lovers very well. He has never failed in selecting his scripts. Be it comedy based subject or action oriented thriller, he has always offered good entertainment to satisfy the audience from all age groups. And his latest offering ‘Simba’ is the best example of offering wholesome entertainment for masses. 
While some action sequences from this film are based on those from the Telugu-language film ‘Temper’ (2015), the plot of Simmba remained original to suit the Hindi film lovers who like action drama filled with emotions. Produced with an estimated production budget of Rs. 80 crore, the film has already collected Rs. 100 Crores worlswide, according to latest trade reports.
Sangram “Simmba” Bhalerao (Ranveer Singh) is an orphan-turned-cop from Shivgadh, the same town where Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) from Rohit Shetty’s earlier film ‘Singham’ was raised. Contrary to Bajirao’s integrity, Simmba enjoys and takes full advantage of his power to turn a corrupt cop. However, when Simmba’s loved ones are abused, we find sudden transformation in him and he chooses a more righteous path.
Director Rohit Shetty has developed this limited plot with his skills to extract the best out of the lead artistes and supporting artistes, who have given their best through their wonderful performances. Best among them is Ranveer Singh, who is so energetic with his perfect body language in all his scenes in this film. He finds good support from Sara Ali Khan who looks confident in her debut. Superb performances come from villain Sonu Sood, Ashutosh Rana, Sarita Joshi and a big team of talented popular Marathi film-television and stage artistes like Siddharth Jadhav, Saurabh Gokhale, Suchita Bandekar, Subha Arya, Vaidehi Parshurami, Ashwini kalsekar, Ashok Samarth, Neha Mahajan,Nandu Madhav, Arun Nalawade, Uday Tikekar & others. Ajay Devgn’s surprise entry in the concluding part receive a big applause from the audience . The director also gives clear indication of his next film ‘Suryavanshi’ with Akshay Kumar at the end of this film.
Gripping screenplay, striking dialogues have also helped the film to create a solid impact on the audience. Award winning cinematographer Jomon T. John from South films who had earlier worked for Rohit Shetty’s film ‘Golmal Again’ has done a wonderful camera work, which is also another plus point of this film, besides variety noticed in music of every song and effective background music which suited to this type of action filled film. All in all, this 159 minutes long film will surely appeal masses, with its perfect entertainment formula filled with actions and emotions.
Rating ( ***1/2)