Jaat movie review: You can’t parody this pic!

UA Action dramaDir Gopichand MalineniCast Sunny Deol Randeep HoodaRating 155Itrsquos mildly amusing as an audience to repeatedly view how mainstream movies are so totally at the mercy of simply making sense of mass audiencesrsquo tastes As if they were manufacturing a generic pilldrug for entertainment as a specific disease Bollywoodrsquos not an exception American mainstream tied to Marvel and similar universes works the same wayTherein lies the beauty of this picture that you can plot so easily on an Excel spreadsheet hiring consultants from the South for a director to start withmdashsince none in Mumbai are blessed with the same sensibilities to pull off a TeluguTamil insane actionavenger in HindiThe point being the lsquopanIndianrsquo overblown gritty revenge drama in a dusty brown palette the likes of KGF Kannada or Pushpa Telugu that successfully pushed themselves up from the South to North audiencesOnly reversing that direction with a North Indian hero instead attempting a nationwide superhit nonethelessConsider Shah Rukh Khan in Tamil Atleersquos Jawan 2023 followed up with say placing Varun Dhawan at the centre of an Atlee remake Baby John 2024 Or take Salman Khan in AR Murugadossrsquos Sikandar 2025 still in theatresThis is a film by Telugu director Gopichand Malineni who had earlier remade the Malayalam Bodyguard also remade into a Salman Khan superhit in Hindi 2011So none of this is new really Only the scalersquos shot up also perhaps the stakes alongsideBut who do you really plant to the title role feeling sufficiently safe commercially Since we are inherently back to the 1990s who else but the action star Sunny Deol 67 whorsquos been growling over grovelling villains for three decades plusIf you had doubts about the filmrsquos purpose Sunny Paaji clears it reprising his ambitiously damning line from Damini 1993 ldquoDhai kilo haath ki taaqat North dekh chuka hai ab South dekhega Itrsquos time for the South to experience the power of 25 kg handrdquoNever too late This sounds an overreach only once you factor in how many South superstars have been doing this same thing equally nonstop for decades anyway what gap are we filling here exactlyAt first glance I thought this moviersquos title Jaat translates literally to caste Which is a touchy topic that mainstream movies donrsquot touchItrsquos a spelling thing of course there is no soft lsquotrsquo sound in English The reference here is to the herorsquos North Indian castegroup He extols the pride of being the brave Jat himselfAs a basic prompt on SoraAI will reveal the action in this movie must wholly shift to the South more specifically Andhra Pradesh even more specifically a nondescript coastal village where everybody including Makarand Deshpande lsquoMak Sirrsquo speaks HindiThink of it as watching a Hindi dub then Smalltown theatres in UPBihar are evidently more than fine toBut whatrsquos Sunny Paaji as a Jat hero in a thin denim jacket and light backpack like Dirty Harry in a lsquosambar westernrsquo doing at a village called Motupalli in Prakasam district of coastal Andhra Thatrsquos a great questionHe just got off a train That train was an Ayodhya Special with devotees dancing to a Shiva taandav score in praise of Lord Ram The songrsquos lsquoJai Shri RamrsquoThe arch villain of this hamletmdashthe new Baap Ji Om Puri from Narsimha 1991 with a twin spiral staircase in his mansionmdashis actually the actor if Irsquom not mistaken also North Indian Jat by origin Randeep HoodaExcept hersquos been tanned to play a Sri Lankan Tamil exmilitant who smuggled gold into India and built an empire of sorts subsequently hacking human heads to instil unlimited fearPosition this pic as a Lord Ramlike figure literally taking on Lankarsquos Raavan if you mayWhat I find most intriguing about Randeeprsquos villain Ranatunga is his household He has a Tamil wife Regina Cassandra who orders the rape of female cops who come to get themThe wife has a mother with earlobes stretching to her jaws with a vertically challenged Man Friday who holds her Old Monk rum Hold my beer broAttempts at blockbusters are by their intrinsic nature criticproof This stuff is parodyproof You canrsquot spoof a spoofmdashwhether produced from ultimate selfawareness or sheer sadismWhatrsquoll interest you is how all of this started And I donrsquot mean the stellar opening fight sequence with Randeep doing the serious heavy liftingFor all the jangling background music and men on repeat mode doing aerobatics to the flying harnessmdashthe filmmakers in general show great hold over visual craft If only there was much of written content to back any of it upThat said this is foremost about a bunch of goons who drop Sunny Paajirsquos plate of idli at a local dhaba The oneman battalion SunnyJaat asks for an apology ldquoSorry bolrdquoThey point him to boss Ram Suba Reddy where he demands an apology again Who in turn guides him to his boss Somulu Viineet Kumar Siingh much loved from superhit Chhaava and likewise his boss RanatungaldquoSorry bolrdquo says Sunny Paaji still recalling his anecdote of the fallen idli The curtains come down for the interval followed by an item number lsquoSorry bolrsquoBy which point I find myself saying sorry before we go from Davos to Dhaka Central Jail Really sorry bhai SincerelyatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params

Jaat movie review: You can’t parody this pic!

U/A: Action, drama
Dir: Gopichand Malineni
Cast: Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda
Rating: 1.5/5

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Jaat movie review: You can’t parody this pic!

U/A: Action, dramaDir: Gopichand MalineniCast: Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda Rating: 1.5/5

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U/A: Action, drama
Dir: Gopichand Malineni
Cast: Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda
Rating: 1.5/5