‘A Flying Jatt’, the director of ‘FALTU’, ‘ABCD’ and ‘ABCD 2’ ( all of which are acronyms, by the way) , gets an upgrade of sorts - a decent budget, a potential superhero franchise, and the opportunity to go wild with every genre trope imaginable. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A desi superhero film not weighed down by intense backstories ( like in the ‘Krrish’ films) , and instead revelling
‘A Flying Jatt’. In which other superhero film would you get a Punjabi mummy ( Amrita Singh - a better, upgraded version of Kirron Kher) mouthing words like, “Mera beta superhero ban gaya”? Only in a Hindi movie would characters react so nonchalantly to a discovery so startling and treat it as comic relief, and that’s part of whatever little charm ‘A Flying Jatt’ exudes.
