SiK: An action comedy with a little song and dance

MUMBAI: This hyped-up action comedy, which bounces from Punjab to Egypt to Australia, broke box-office records when it opened in India last week. Its appeal has everything to do with its star, Akshay Kumar, who plays Happy Singh, a bumbling villager (“I’m an illiterate fool!” he says at one point), sent off into the world with nothing but his good intentions.“Singh Is Kinng” isn’t a great movie. There are too many sloppy action sequences, the humor’s too broad, the storytelling lackluster. But the immensely likable Mr. Kumar shines as a Capraesque hero who spreads bedrock Indian values — honor your mother, help the poor — by example, most conspicuously as the accidental leader of a feared crime gang in Australia.