Tiger Shroff returns as a Superhero in A Flying Jatt. The movie is directed by Remo D’Souza, whose has given us moderate hits like ABCD. A Flying Jatt is scheduled to release on 25th August and doesn’t seem to have much competition at the box office during the weekend.
Comedy is, of course, the most watched and most preferred genre for audiences in India. So our superhero takes up a persona of bumbling, and slightly immature young adult who has no idea what to do with his new found super powers. Tiger Shroff's last movie, Baaghi, was appreciated by his fans, I am sure they will like this one too.
A Flying Jatt Cast
Jacqueline Fernandez will be seen romancing our flying Jatt after her last success in Dishoom. A Flying Jatt (2016) Director: Remo D'Souza
Stars: Tiger Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nathan Jones, Kay Kay
Flying Jatt Movie Review
A Fying Jatt mixes religion and science and doesn't do justice to either. I say this because it would have been much better if the director had either gone all technical, or stuck to the illustrious Sikh history and woven a story around it. That angle is used intermittently but never develops. Malhotra (Kay Kay) is a rich and powerful industrialist who needs the land which Aman (Tiger Shroff) and his mother (Amrita Singh) owns. A religious woman, she believes that the tree on her land has divine powers. She is also apprehensive that Malhotra is spreading pollution, which is the reason for her husband's death. So she decides that she won't sell the land, which then becomes the bone of contention between the two. Aman's deceased father was a great warrior and his mother hopes that one day he too will rise up to that reality. When Mlahotra employs vicious Raka (Nathan Jones), Aman fights him and in the ensuing tussle the tree grants superpowers to Aman - the Flying Jatt. The movie crams too many social messages and you will see our superhero asking people to wear seat belts and not talk on the phone while driving, among many other things. The central message is that pollution is the biggest threat to humans and that they are the main contributors to this threat. So our villain is a super villain who is an outcome of all the industrial toxic waste and grows in power as the pollution grows. The obvious way to combat this is to stop polluting our environment. But after rooting this important message in science, Raka - the super villain - is killed by the Kada. If he was anyway going to be defeated by a religious instrument, why go through all this pollution angle and social messages? Why hasn't our superhero used the instrument all this time? There is no logic to the movie. As far as the action goes, it looks promising only in patches. But the hotch-potch job that our director has done to create a all-in-one superhero who can fly like Superman, run like The Flash, and heal like Wolverine, descents into mediocrity when it comes to action sequences. The incessant use of Slo-Mo kills any excitement in the fights. But then you forget, subtlety is not Bollywood's strong point, you have to overkill. The movie gets to the main point early on and the battle lines are drawn within the first half an hour.But then the movie slowly loses steam and literally huffs and puffs in the second half as you wait for it to come back on the rails. Overall, the director has made a mess of a strong message with a mash-up of all superheroes and super villain scenes plucked out of Hollywood movies.
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