Singam English Lion is a 2010 Indian Tamil action masala film directed by Hari, starring Suriya and Anushka Shetty in the lead. The film, produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raja in association with Reliance Big Pictures, and distributed by Sun Pictures, was released onMay 2010. Upon release, the film was dubbed into Telugu and released as Yamudu and into Hindi as The Fighterman Singham. The films success led to remakes in Kannada as Kempe Gowda, in Hindi as Singham, and in Bengali as Shotru. The sequel, Singam II, which released in July 2013, was a big commercial success as well. Singam III is expected to be released in 2016.
Chennaibased Mayil Vaaganam Prakash Raj, a bigtime extortionist with shady mafia dealings who blackmails people by complaining to the Income Tax Department, is required to travel to Nallur to sign a conditional bail. He instead, sends one of his allies to do the formalities, much to the anger and rage of Singam who demands Mayil sign the bail in person. Humiliated, Mayil reaches Nallur but is unable to take any revenge on Singam fearing the immense love and devotion of the entire village towards Singam. Using his political contacts, he gets Singam transferred to Chennai to teach him a lesson.Singam, unaware of Mayils hand behind his transfer, joins Thiruvanmiyur police station. His coworker, SubInspector Ravi Bose Venkat, hates Mayil for his crimes but is unable to take any action because of Mayils political powers. The assistant commissioner Nizhalgal Ravi, Singams senior, is on Mayils payroll and takes care in concealing and eliminating the evidence of Mayils crimes from the eyes of the law. The police commissioner Ajay Rathnam also does not help Singam as there are no evidences against Mayil and the assistant commissioner and in turn, warns him to stay away from Mayils case. Unable to take on Mayil in his stronghold, Singam wants to return to his village but is stopped by Kavya who encourages him to fight against the evil and not run like a coward. ........
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