Singham Again: Money Lessons from Rohit Shetty’s Ramayana Epic

Those who have grown up watching Doordarshan, those who read Amar Chitra Katha, those who have heard the lyrics sung at home, have seen many interpretations of the epic Ramayana in folktales and during the Ram Leela performed in small and big cities. . In fact, Dussehra and Diwali are celebrated in India as the triumphant return of Rama to Ayodhya after defeating Ravana. In Rohit Shetty’s cop universe, they take refuge in the same story of good versus evil and give it the popcorn treatment, exploding cars and all that jazz…

What money lessons can we learn from this epic story?

Singham Returns is like investing in mutual funds

Advertisements for mutual funds tell you that investing in these funds is the right choice. Here’s a simple reason why: As a single person, your money only has a limited reach. When you pool your money with other individual investors and the money is invested by a professional, you have many different types of shares in your portfolio and enjoy the benefits of that bigger and better reach.

When the stakes in the film are high – Sita has been kidnapped by the nocturnal Ravan and needs to be rescued – Rama needs all the help he can muster to defeat Ravan’s army. Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) seeks the help of Shakti Shetty (Deepika Padukone), Sangram Bhalerao aka Simmba (Ranveer Singh), Satya (Tiger Shroff) and Veer Suryavanshi (Akshay Kumar) to invade the domain where Danger Lanka (Arjun Kapoor a great villain) has kidnapped and held captive Singham’s wife Avni (the always beautiful Kareena Kapoor). Guns on fire, bullets only kill the bad guys. This team simulates a rescue operation. The loud background music may damage your ears, but you will come away chuckling because of the monkey play of a Hanuman like Ranveer Singh.

Ajay Devgn has invested in a team with diverse skills, just like your mutual fund manager invests in several stocks that pay handsome dividends because they work together to give you the benefits of the volume in which stocks are traded.

Equity funds are like Ranveer Singh’s Simmba

As the name suggests, this fund mainly invests in shares. Some equity funds are named according to the size of the companies in which they invest: small, medium or large capitalization companies. Others because of their investment approach: aggressive growth, income-oriented and value-oriented.

Ranveer Singh appears to resemble Hanuman in the film. And if you’re familiar with the Epic, you know that Hanuman can change his size as needed. He is gentle when he meets Avni, fierce when he burns down Danger Lanka’s lair, just like Hanuman does.

Investing in blue chip companies carries less risk than investing in small companies, yet where the risk is high, the returns can also be higher.

Akshay Kumar’s Suryavanshi is like a money market fund

A money market fund is a type of investment fund that invests in highly liquid instruments with a short term. These include cash, cash-equivalent securities and high credit ratings, short-term debt-based securities such as government bonds.

Akshay Kumar’s Suryavanshi shows up when the bad guys seem to be winning and he literally falls out of a helicopter (as is his cinematic entry style) to save the day.

So Akshay Kumar is your high-quality short-term debt instrument, cash and cash equivalent. When compared to other investment vehicles, it has low risk, generates income (taxable or tax-free, depending on its portfolio) but little capital growth. No matter how good he is, Simmba will always badmouth him!

Deepika Padukone’s Shakti and Tiger Shroff’s Satya are like debt funds

Deepika Padukone’s Shakti Shetty says she is Lady Singham, with her dimple playing a huge role in making us smile at her as she decimates the bad guys. Satya was raised in an ashram, but he wields the Kalari sword beautifully and protects Avni and the others in the ashram when the bad guys set the buildings on fire.

A debt fund is an investment fund that invests in fixed income instruments such as government and corporate bonds, securities and other instruments that offer an increase in the value of debt capital. Sometimes debt funds are called fixed income funds or bond funds. That’s because their cost structure is low, they offer consistent returns and are safe compared to other instruments.

So if you are risk averse and want a regular income and cannot deal with the volatility of the markets, invest in debt funds. You achieve your financial goals in a tax-efficient manner and benefit from a better return.

In Arjun Kapoor’s Danger Lanka, all the risks seem to be in one. If they see you hesitate, they will laugh, and the bad guys can be easily crushed if you trust your money manager and work as a team to make money!

This Rohit Shetty offering has all the crowd-pleasing lines and enough patriotism to appease anyone who would otherwise be shocked by the violence and deafening noise. But if you’re looking for some action after the festivities without having to do anything other than stick your fingers in a bucket of cheese and caramel popcorn, this movie is your weekend watch.