Kathmandu

A Flying Jatt is a Bollywood superhero flick where a Sikh superhero flies, beats villains and saves his people from all evil. Unlike Hollywood Superhero, this superhero gets his power directly from Wahe Guru and saves the world from evil yet powerful villain Raka, who derives his power from waste. Though heavily inspired from Hollywood movies, A Flying Jatt doesn’t soar.

Aman (Tiger Shroff) is a martial arts teacher but a coward at heart who lives with his mother Bebe (Amrita Singh) in Kartar colony, while Kirti (Jacqueline Fernandez) is his love interest.  When Malhotra (Kay Kay Menon) wants to take over the colony, he assigns Raka (Nathan Jones) to do the job. When Raka comes to do his job, he is challenged by Aman. During the fight, something supernatural happens and both Aman and Raka get the good and bad powers respectively. And acrophobic Aman turns into a Flying Jatt with good powers to fight against all the bad things and the evil Raka.

Like any superhero, A Flying Jatt is about saving the world from evil. The only difference here is that D’Souza’s superhero gets the power from god by which he can not only fly but stop time and make people obey traffic rules while flying. Nothing new in terms of plot as well as direction.

This third directional venture of Remo D’Souza, A Flying Jatt fails to charm the audience. The film tries to spoof superhero films but later changes its gear to a serious tone. The first-half of the film is interesting as it has lots of comical acts which makes the audience laugh out loud. As the second-half begins, the film forgets the humorous track making the film boring.

Unoriginal sequences in the film — Flying Jatt forgetting his mission, his first kiss like that from the Spiderman movie and superpowers from X-Men: Days of Future Past and Spiderman take all the glory from a Bollywood superhero film. The action sequences are not spectacular as they should be in a superhero film. While songs like Beat Pe Booty and Bhangda Pa will entertain you, the comedy is the saving grace of the film.

When it comes to acting, Shroff as Flying Jatt has done a good job. He has nailed it as a coward Aman or loser martial arts school teacher as well as a superhero. But he still lags in emotional scenes. Jones as the villain is apt and he is able to cast terror and give chills just by growling “surprise surprise”. He looks villainous and reminds you of perfect Hollywood superhero films’ villains. Fernandez has nothing much to do in the film except playing the hero’s love interest in which she has weak delivery of Hindi language. And Singh is noteworthy as Bebe with her perfect comic timing.