[9] The film has a deceptively casual beginning: a middle-class family consisting of parents, a daughter and identical twin sons: Shiva and Ashok Kumar.
Shweta is Shiva's long-time sweetheart, while Ashok's life is one long, lustful journey as he charms every woman he meets into his bed.
Matters come to a head when Ashok lures a girl called Gayatri with false pretenses, pretending to be falling in love with her at first, ending up in having sex with her, and eventually killing her by pushing off the terrace when he learns that she becomes pregnant.
Behindwoods.com gave the album 2 stars out of 5, noting it had "all the ingredients for a mass entertainer", and felt it "has the ability to make people dance to his (Sharma's) tunes.
"[10] The film was initially set to release on Diwali 2010,[11] but got delayed due to CG works on scenes involving Jiiva's dual roles.
"[17] Behindwoods wrote "For his debut project, Sai Ramani has chosen a mainstream commercial subject taking in sibling rivalry with clearly etched out characters which could have worked wonders but fortunately he had capitalized this aspect in weaving an engaging tale.
"[18] Sify wrote "Sai Ramani directed Singam Puli, is an uninspiring 2 hours 45 minutes masala film that takes the viewers for granted.
"[19] Mid-Day wrote "Debutant Sai has chosen an advanced theme of fight between twins who represent good and bad.