Bollywood is on high, huge budgets, wide audience and the ability to push their thinking beyond boundaries. The desire to make a superhero movie dwells in most of the film makers and the famed choreographer seems to have fallen for it as well. Remo D Souza tries to bank on the huge appeal Tiger Shroff has over kids to hit the bull’s eye with “TFJ”. Tiger Shroff looks to outdo his dad’s dud “Shiva Ka Insaaf” decades back.
The template for a superhero movie is simple. Take an idiot, give him science defying powers, make him a hero to save something, and get a dumber girl who obviously loves the super hero and then make her realize it’s the same idiot who is the super hero, you also throw in a smart villain who has almost the same powers as the hero but is the bad guy and so has to lose, and all ends well like most of the regular movies do. You walk out of the movie hall wishing you just flew home like the idiot in the movie without having to step on others toes or ambling through tones of metal on the road. World over this is the template and “TFJ” is no different. But such movies solely depend on that insane expertise in evolving those brilliantly choreographed stunts, stunning visuals and obscene levels of action. TFJ sadly lacks in all these departments and comes out as a lame duck that just flaps its wings unable to fly.
Tiger Shroff is feline as you can get in his movements, he clicks as the dumb guy with his boyish innocent charm but as the super hero he enjoys only the flight. Jacqueline Fernandez hops in and out of the frame with the one standard expression throughout. Amrita Singh makes up for the absence of a “Sardar” in the movie. The others do what is expected out of them.
Technically the movie is a loser, it works on emotions but fumbles big time as superhero material. The “wow” ingredients required in a movie such as this is found wanting totally from the team behind the scenes. The ideas are pretty juvenile and a movie that should have worked wonders with kids perhaps might just not do the trick. The music is fun. The editing is plain and the direction is compromised by choreography. To recall, the movie is directed by the famous director Remo D Souza.
The Flying Jatt takes off well but lands in a plain and bland soup despite an earnest attempt.
The Flying Jatt – Grounded !!
2.25/
B.U.Shreesha
