At the post-interval point, this film altogether delineates into an unrelated animation video on how Sardarjis are universally made fun of with "barah baj gaye" (clock turning 12) jokes. The short animation film goes deep into history to explain that the clock turning 12, in fact, refers to midnight raids that Sikh warriors used to conduct, fighting for the cause of the weak and the dispossessed-indeed a valorous act, rather than something to be lampooned. No? Yes, I suppose.

So, straight away, the best thing about A Flying Jatt is the fumbling Jatt played by Tiger Shroff. Wicked industrialist Malhotra (Kay Kay) wants Aman's family's lands, which hold a sacred tree, for his polluting industries. Aman's mother, Mrs. Dhillon (Amrita), ferociously opposes Malhotra - but Aman quakes before him, intimidated by most things on earth, including his own martial arts students.

Excessive promotions, aggressive social media campaigns - the makers of 'A Flying Jatt' did not leave a stone unturned to promote the movie. The film is supposed to be a superhero movie, but falls flat in every aspect. Director Remo D'souza, who is known for his dance-based ventures, brings a superhero film with a religious message but forgets what his forte is.

Cartoon Network used to have a great show back in the '90s and early 2000s called Captain Planet. It was about a superhero who used to fight for planet Earth. His main set of enemies were hell bent on polluting the planet. Captain Planet on the other hand was resolute in cleaning up the environment and saving the world. Take that exact same premise, put it into Punjab and you get a movie called A Flying Jatt. To add a wee bit more detail you can throw in some Superman, The Matrix and Pacific Rim moments. This desi superhero flick is truly a hotch-potch of the Hollywood kind.

A Jatt superhero who bumbles and fumbles? Who behaves like a little boy around his formidable 'bebe', and is all shy and tongue-tied around a hot babe? Who has, haha, a fear of heights? Sounds like a barrel of fun, no? The first half of A Flying Jatt is not afraid to be silly and is very enjoyable. Tiger Shroff plays a martial arts teacher in a school where he strives lamely to catch his students' eye, as well as a pretty colleague whom we know is interested in the environment because she clutches a couple of books on the subject to her bosom.

Like previous Bollywood's Hollywood inspired super hero inspirations like the E.T. inspired 'Jadu' in Hrithik's KOI.. MIL GAYA or MAN OF STEEL plus others inspiration in the latest KRRISH series or an amalgamation of all in the terrible RA. ONE starring SRK, Remo Dsouza's A FLYING JATT goes further weird and asks for some divine influence. Honestly we didn't expected Remo to hip hop into the super hero genre from his comfortable dance based moonwalks - the successful ABCD series to give us a high fly in this genre but at least we expected a super hero flick if not a super hero blockbuster.

When you hear about a superhero film starring a young hero known for his martial art skills, expectations are bound to be sky-high, despite the fact that Bollywood has mostly shied away from the superhero genre as it lacks the technical expertise available to Hollywood filmmakers while making such films. However, Tiger's latest release A Flying Jatt, which has been directed by Remo D'Souza, ends up coming across as a film made solely for kids, who do not mind a preachy tone with their tales.

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. Somehow the pattern of superhero films seeps into the structure but what matters is the treatment and how the 'local' touch has been added. A Flying Jatt borrows heavily from Hollywood superhero clichs and mixes them with popular Bollywood formula.

It is (not?) a surprise that Tiger Shroff is three films old now, and still, he is not a decent actor. Every feeling he emotes and every word he says lacks, for lack of a better word, dignity. His contemporaries like Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra or Sushant Singh Rajput have showed a flair for dramatic acting right from their first film. But all the young Shroff scion can do is fight well, dance well, and the best of all, smile really well. This smile of Shroff's is the backbone of his charming, affable, goofy and well, harmless on-screen self, which in his new film A Flying Jatt, has been put to great use by director Remo D'Souza.

Mr. Malhotra (Kay Kay Menon) is a big time industrialist who has been dumping his industrial waste into a local lake. He is a relentless businessman and hence is after a crucial piece of land where a holy tree (Avatar like) stands with a society owned by Amrita Singh's character and her sons Aman (Tiger Shroff) and Rohit (Gaurav Pandey). After Aman's mother stands tall against Malhotra's men to save her land, he appoints Raka (Nathan Jones) to kill Aman and his family.

Balaji Motion Pictures' A FLYING JATT is essentially of the origin and inception of a reluctant superhero, who is afraid of heights. The film starts off with the introduction of the filthy rich and extremely money-minded Malhotra (Kay Kay Menon) and his expansion plans for his construction company. Amidst his plans of expansion, Mrs. Kartar Singh aka Bebe (Amrita Singh) acts as a barrier as it's her (late) husband's land that Malhotra wants to usurp for his project. Even when Malhotra offers double the value of the land to Bebe, she just does not budge to his offer, as she reasons that Malhotra's companies are the root cause of pollution in the city.

Superhero films as a genre have been a perennial favourite in cinema across the world. Watching an undergo or a regular Joe suddenly posses super powers and beat the baddies makes for a good movie plot. Bollywood has had its share of superhero films with Krrish and Ra.One. A Flying Jatt which is being typecast in the same genre is a mashup of everything that has gone wrong with the superhero franchise.

It is very hard to fathom the purpose of this aimless flight. If the idea behind A Flying Jatt is to unveil a new money-spinning franchise, we don't know about the money bit but it would be a moviegoer's worst nightmare come true. Isn't one bad enough? A few more such flicks would be cinematic hell. Poorly mounted, abysmally acted and dreadfully tedious, A Flying Jatt, directed and co-written by choreographer Remo D'Souza, flies on empty.