In a throwback video, filmmaker Rohit Shetty had revealed that he decided to make Singham (2011) after watching Salman Khan’s Wanted. The Prabhu Deva directorial was one of the highest grossers of 2009.

In the video, Rohit can be heard as saying, I'll tell you what. I made Singham because of Wanted. That was a phase when multiplex had come in. It was 2009, I was making All The Best. PVR had just opened up, new. And that time nobody was making mass action films. And Wanted was one underdog which came.”

He added, “I was like, the time has come back to make mass entertainer because even, abhi multiplex mein bhi seetiya aur taali bajne lagi hain (Now whistles and claps are being heard even at multiplexes). And then, we made Singham in 2011.”

The third part of the Singham series, Singham Again is scheduled to release on Diwali, November 1.