MOVIE REVIEW – A FLYING JATT (2016)

We are here again with a much buzzed Superhero movie A FLYING JATT (2016) directed by Remo D'Souja which is released this extended weekend on the eve of Janamasthmi. As evident from its name movie the superhero of the movie is named A FLYNG JATT (played by Tiger Shroff) who helps people with his superpowers. The movie is inspired heavily from Hollywood superhero cliches which is mixed and matched up with popular bollywood formula by adding local touch.

Mr. Malhotra (Kay Kay Menon) is a relentless local industrialist who has been dumping his industrial waste into a local lake and is after a crucial peace of land where a holy tree stands with a society owned by Mrs. Dhillon (Amrita Singh) and her sons Aman (Tiger Shroff, who is a martial arts teacher in a school) and Rohit (Gaurav Pandey). When Aman's mother stands tall against Malhotra's men to save her land, he deputes Raka (Nathan Jones) to kill Aman and his family.

When Raka fights with Aman below the fatefull tree in the rains, clubbed with thunder, lightening and with the divine power of the tree Aman gets the superpowers. Interestingly, Raka after lying in toxic waste for over 10 days becomes a toxic supervillain, who fights our superhero 'A FLYING JATT' with instructions from Malhotra.

Remo resorts to comic relief in the movie as a get away and hence we have a superhero who has height phobia, who buys 'Lauki' in the market and who stops at the red light. If the textbooks are boring enought to tell you that pollution is harmful, Remo is here to tell you that the pollution is the cause of cancer today. As Jadoo got his powers from 'Dhoop' this superhero gets it from 'fresh air' as opposed to villain of the movie, Raka who breathes polluted air and get power from it.

If you are tired of listening to that, you will have to torture this lecture for two and half hours during the moive. Not all of it is bad and it is good for kids but a lame attempt to appeal to adults. All in all, Remo comes up with a film that could serve as a fun lesson for kids on why not to pollute air, why to eat ‘lauki’ (because superhero bhi khata hai) and the fact that if you’re an Indian superhero, Ghar ke jaale saaf karna would definitely be your thing!

What’s Good:

A Flying Jatt is a funny superhero drama that has loads of light moments. Its Kid-friendly theme seems to be the most salable point.

Moreover, the fight scenes of Tiger are good as always.

Loop holes in the movie:

If the kiddish storyline is any less, elements such as the Holy tree  is even more irritating and if filmmaker wants to show us a children he could have reduced romantic scenes and avoided kissing. Basically, with all the laughs that come from the funny scenes, there are also the constant yawns over ‘preachy’ stuff!

Since the name is A Flying Jatt, we are also given a doze of history of the Sikh bravery and Remo also manages to push in the ‘don’t make jokes on Sardars’ message in this one. All this stuff is felt out of context.

A dragged second half is a Swachch Bharat ad-campaign, copied elements of Hollywood superheroes and Remo's ambition to ‘preach’ through this movie lets him down.

Some scenes are hilarious such as Tiger dancing to Sunny Leone’s ‘Baby Doll‘.

What’s with telling people pollution is the cause of cancer? This starts to make

Another problem with this film is the music album. The music is totally out of context.

Star Peformance:-

Tiger Shroff, who appeared in his third film still seems quite uncomfortable with dialogue delivery but he looked great during fight scenes. He still has long way to go to come up in the top league of bollywood actors.

Jacqueline Fernandez with her limited role has looked ordinary in the movie. She has played a teacher in the movie but she was not shown teaching even once in the entire movie.

Amrita Singh once again has played the Punjaib Mom after 2 STATES. Her overall performance in the movie is average.

Gaurav Pandey plays a decent part in the movie and his comic is great.

Kay Kay Menon's role in the movie is also not that much interesting.

Nathan Jones as Raka looks scary enough thanks to his huge structure itself. His physical appearance is enough to establish him as a strong villain without dialogues.

Final words:

 A FLYING JATT is good to watch but strictly for kids. For adults, it is too silly to learn about pollution from a Superhero. So, it is recommended to watch this movie alongwith Kids only....

My ratings for this movie is 2 out of 5 stars.

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