An honest, small town cop is transferred to a big city that is controlled by a crime boss that he had once humiliated.
Stunts
Rohit Shetty's signature flying cars reach operatic absurdity
Acting
Prakash Raj's Jaikant Shikre: villainy so theatrical it circles back to genius
Direction
Shetty crafts the template for modern Hindi cop worship cinema
Director
Rohit Shetty
Ajay Devgn
Bajirao Singham
Kajal Aggarwal
Kavya Bhosle
Prakash Raj
Jaikant Shikre
Sachin Khedekar
Gautam Bhosle
Ashok Saraf
Prabhu Bhawalkar
Murali Sharma
DSP
Sudhanshu Pandey
Inspector Rakesh Kadam
Sonali Kulkarni
Megha Kadam
Govind Namdeo
Bajirao Singham's Father
Vineet Sharma
Sub-Inspector Dev Phadnis
Anant Jog
Minister Anant Narvekar
Ashok Samarth
Ankur Nayyar
Inspector Abbas (uncredited)
Kishore Nandlaskar
Anant's Peon (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Singham launched Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe, now spanning 5+ films and making Devgn's moustache a franchise trademark.
The film weaponizes Marathi pride and rural authenticity against cosmopolitan corruption—a political fantasy that resonated post-2010 anti-corruption movements.
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