Aug 27, 2016 10:56 AM
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Director Remo D’Souza is back with an unusual script that was supposed to be out-of-the-box and preferably for kids. Well, when kids of this generation is considered, I believe Remo ‘sir’ has failed to acknowledge the fact what this generation really expects in a kiddie movie.
No doubt, the movie has its high and low in the comedy department and maintains so only in the first half, while second half gets all preachy about environment. Kind of feels like ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’ at a point. The movie gives the notion that even highly-powered needs to obey laws, be it environmental or traffic signal.
This is a story of a boy who is the son of first Sikh trainer of Shaolin school of Martial Arts and a mother who is nothing less than a typical Punjabi bebe who is a fireball. In this Kung Fu Hustle set-up, Mrs. Dhillon(Amrita Singh) runs a colony where no one ever pays rent and loves her drink. She’s one of those who has no brain-to-mouth filter. Aman(Tiger Shroff), our very own friendly neighbourhood Flying Jatt, is a martial arts teacher and is crushing on Kirti(Jacqueline Fernandez) really hard.
The story rolls when antagonist Malhotra(Kay Kay Menon) sets his eyes on the colony, and wants it gone so that he can build a bridge through it. Raka, a growler(Nathan Jones) is hired by Malhotra to wipe off Mrs. Dhillon’s colony, but little is known that he feeds off of pollution and becomes even a worse growler. And thus follows the movie, hero discovering his powers and fighting off the evil.
The movie seems to be concoction of all the superheroes movies from Hollywood and stuffed with the Bollywood formula. I have never seen a movie where the mother stitches various costumes for her superhero son and gives him tutorials on aerodynamics and flight by watching Superman Movie. But hero goes back the Spidey way for his love life, hidden identity and first kiss. Then he also portrays as Quicksilver(X-Men: Days of Future Past) where everything is slow compared to his speed. A Little bit of Wolverine also surfaces. One of the action sequence between Jones and Shroff is straight out of Sin City. Let me tell you, all the inspiration taken are from really well-known movies.
It’s not like Remo doesn’t know his characters from friendzoned teacher to unethical flashy tycoon and over giggly beauty, his typical characters are there, but still he needed more for making his audience glued to their seats.
That was for the movie script now let me tell you about performances. Tiger Shroff’s third movie and he is still learning. Looks little uncomfortable but he moves like dream. Poor dialogue delivery but no one can challenge him when it comes to air-kicks. The boy shall learn. Jacqueline Fernandez is just for her chirpy and eye-candy purpose. Her highlight in the movie is for her to show sexy moves on Beat pe Booty. Amrita Singh, continues to be loud and overbearing Punjabi mom, screechy in some scenes and drunkard act is unbearable.
Kay Kay Menon character is caricature-y villainous, with blingy ties and mean looking. Nathan Jones as Raka with his huge structure draws a scary character. He doesn’t speak much, other than ‘surprise surprise’ and opens his jaws, widens his eyes and becomes the villain of the flick. Some super expressions.
Flying Jatt begins with nice pace, love-struck boy, light-hearted moments and then just hits the bumps in second half. The movie becomes all-explanatory, preachy and keeps on dragging. Even for a kiddie movie it needs more than what it has, or less of your superhero eats lauki as well.
This is a downright proof why we don’t have superheroes movies. If you are Tiger Shroff fan, even then I would suggest, watch this movie at home or not.
My Rating: 1.5 stars
