Movie: Flying Jatt

Director: Remo D’Souza

Star Cast: Tiger Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez, Amrita Singh, Kay Kay Menon and Nathan Jones.

Story: His father was the first Sikh to train at the Shaolin school of martial arts and his mother is a fireball personified. His city is under threat and millions of lives are at stake. But, he won’t do his superhero act unless a small child screams: A Flying Jatt. Wicked industrialist Malhotra (Kay Kay) wants Aman’s family’s lands, which hold a sacred tree, for his polluting industries. Raka (Nathan Jones), a terrible growler, is hired to wipe off Mrs Dhillon’s colony but he transforms into an even worse growler after realising that he feeds on pollution.

Tiger does a neat job as Aman, shivering superhero who fights crime but also buys ‘do kilo lauki’ on the way home. Tiger’s evolution, from a kind but confused kid on the block, to a focused and fierce fighter, comes across well as do the film’s light moments, including Aman as ‘Sunny Leone’.

Acrophobia restricts Aman from flying high, and dogs don’t let him land. He obeys traffic signals even during his flight and keeps trying funny costumes on his mother’s insistence.

An action sequence shows him change into Quicksilver (X-Men: Days Of Future Past) where everything is slow compared to his speed.

Sin City also comes into play when Jones and Shroff face-off in mud, dark and rain. There are other ‘inspirations’ as well. And, mind you, these are the popular ones and easy to recognise.

You will see bits of Superman and Spiderman and our own home-grown Krrish in A Flying Jatt.

Fernandez has to jump up and down and squeal girlishly, when she is not dancing alongside the Jatt, or not being taken on an aerial survey, all of which she delivers on. Jacqueline’s most challenging moment here is an item song called ‘Beat pe booty’, which required her to perform callisthenic dance moves. Amrita Singh is loud yet funny. Gaurav Pandey as her second son adds substantially to the family drama.

Shroff is agile and earnest too. His love for acrobatics serves the purpose but a religious overdose dampens the spirit. Superheroes need to rise on their own after a while. His comic skills are at work and this may go down well with kid. In the end you will find the movie as if its a promo for Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan.