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There is, for example, a scene with Tiger taking on a tennis ball machine with nunchuks. The film is put together sloppily, with several comedic sequences well-intentioned but not making sense. There’s the already classic Quicksilver sequence from Days Of Future Past, there’s a Sam Raimi trolley shot straight out of Spider-Man 2, and when the big villain - Nathan Jones from no less than bloody Mad Max: Fury Road - says that he wants a better costume, evil sponsor Kay Kay Menon basically orders him a Thor suit.ĭ’Souza, as a director, isn’t one. The problem with A Flying Jatt is its lack of faith in its own originality, which is why director Remo D’Souza ends up - like Amrita Singh - cribbing from superhero films we already know and love.
A FLYING JATT MOVIE
I don’t think I’ve watched a superhero movie where the hero’s mother has enthusiastically sown him a costume, and given the apoplectic way the genre is now exploding, finding a new, authentically Hindi filmi angle is commendable. It is a film, in fact, more about a superhero’s Punjabi mother than it is the hero himself, and that goes a long way in setting up the humour.Īmrita Singh, as the thrilled mom looking at Superman Returns tapes to educate her son on flight-pose decorum (' aise toh full speed mein udte hain') is priceless, as is the moment when, after appropriately epic heroic buildup, Tiger fatefully wears the costume only to flop into bed and pick up the television remote.
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It ends poorly, sure, and has some catastrophically clumsy moments on the way, but as a children’s film, it goes a helluva lot further than those Krrish things. This is a shame, for A Flying Jatt isn’t bad.