I could never understand Pahlaj Nihalani’s intentions, probably nobody could. The Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification in India confused a whole lot of us. First, he enforced sanskari reel values in us by snipping out James Bond’s kisses and then he let shady B-grade films reign over us.
The ultimate cherry on the cake was when he openly supported Tiger Shroff-starrer A Flying Jatt.
Never have we ever seen the man support a film so wholeheartedly that we began to doubt his plans. But no more. After watching the film, there was no iota of doubt left, at least in my mind, as to why our censor board chief showered so much lurv on a Remo D’Souza’s film, which by the way is out of this world.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Campaign
Everything has an alternative, except Mother Earth.Remo D’Souza, newly minted environmentalist
Imagine this, in between the high-action fight sequence somewhere in outer space, which looks like a moon (but we don’t know what it is), the above profound thought breaks into your screen. It not only breaks the poor quality GFX flow of the film, but in a funny way reminds you how beautiful your mother earth is and ‘hum sab responsible hain’ for ruining the planet.
Absurd? Well not in Remo’s world of filmmaking. The director went on to make a film to save the planet. The 2-hour-31-minute-long film was not about the superhero, but a chapter pulled out of your environment studies book. The movie waves the ‘go green’ flag wide and high, just like the ruling party’s clean India drive.
And that’s probably why the film ‘swept’ Pahlaj Nihalani off his feet.
A Flying Punjab
So how does a meek, cut-surd Aman get’s his supernatural powers? Not by being bitten by a spider (now that wouldn’t be original), but by getting a Khalsa stamped by a tree.Voila! And he turns into A Flying Jatt!
This film could soon become the official movie for the state for the next year’s election as there has been no other film that’s glorified the community as much as this one did. ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’, the Sikh slogan of sovereignty, the reason behind the 12 O’clock jokes, the importance of turban and the braveness of Sikh, builds its way throughout the film making it blatant and in your face.
High on Cultural References
The cultural references in the film are very dear to our heart as it would remind us of our mommy dear, hence making it a highly sanskari film to watch.
Amrita Singh is as desi as you could get when she urges her superhero puttar to buy lauki in his costume just to avail some ‘superhero’ discount. Or the scene when a mother tells her son, ‘dekho superhero bhi lauki khata hai’. The fact ‘bebe’ sits and watches all foreign films with her son just to flare the superhero-ness in him.
It’s ‘maa ki mamata’ and ‘ashirwaad’ that makes A Flying Jatt a hero in Pahlaj Nihalani’s eyes.
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