MUMBAI: For the last two months, the movie industry has shown support and solidarity in the controversy surrounding ‘Udta Punjab’, and opposed the Censor Board’s intrusion in any form for a film that had its heart in the right place.
Censor Board Chief Pahlaj Nihalani argued that ‘Udta Punjab’ shows the state concerned in a bad light and exaggerates the scenario in the state, that’s grappling with a growing issue of drugs.

Nihalani must understand that if there ever was a right time to make that argument, it is now. Balaji Motion Pictures uploaded the trailer for the latest ‘superhero’ movie featuring Tiger Shroff (we are not laughing) few days ago, and the superpowers of ‘A Flying Jatt’ include abysmal acting, running away from stray dogs and dance moves that confuse you wondering what’s worse – the choreography or the sound?

Yes, because it has been the thumb rule in Bollywood to provide dreadful music to an equally appalling script. Good job, music guys, on maintaining equality on that front. With Sachin-Jigar handling the music responsibilities for Remo D’Souza’s fourth feature film ‘A Flying Jatt’, one surely wasn’t expecting the theme of ‘Interstellar’, but the title track for this movie gives a better idea of what to expect (or not) when the movie finally hits the screens.

Vayu and Raftaar wrote the lyrics of the title track, and if that fact was not enough to discourage you from listening to it, then the abrupt illogical lyrical formation twenty seconds into the song would. It’s yet-another-song-that-tries-very-hard-to-make-you-dance and there lies no doubt about the song’s success amongst the youth who would even listen to DJ Bobby Deol after two tequila shots.

The music sounds exactly like 3,441 other similar Bollywood songs with the similar intention – to make people dance. Well, a piece of advice to all the Sachins and the Jigars, (we) Indians can survive a movie without its typical pop sounds coupled with a Punjabi rap (what is with Bollywood and Punjabi rap anyway). Mansheel Gujral occupies the most parts of the vocals space. The only good thing about the composition – and hopefully the entire soundtrack - is another consistent show of mixing and mastering from the hands of Eric Pillai. How has Pillai managed to sit in that studio throughout the hours to master this four-minute-long random clutter of sounds, we would never know!

To add to the cuteness factor, a little girl (Tanishka from Coke Studio fame) appears in the music video dressed as a Wonder Woman (because why the f**k not) and the kid sings ‘Flying Jatt mera BFF hai aur mein uski ek lauti GF hu, Uspe naa daal nazar kudiyon, Mein toh uske liye Possessive hu’. I mean, are you so lazy that you cannot even get the sentences to rhyme? Seriously? The kid would have done a better lyrical job than Vayu-Raftaar combined. Dear Remo, was the kid included to provide a perfect companion to the super hero’s mental age?

One song doesn’t define the entire soundtrack, but if it’s a movie under the Balaji Motion Pictures banner with Remo D’Souza as a director, and the duo Sachin-Jigar let loose in the studio, then surely proud Punjabis like Nahalani must restrict their superpower of banning movies to projects like ‘A Flying Jatt’.

The rest of the soundtrack features two romantic songs, a song about all the hardships the protagonist would ‘fly’ through, a song about revenge and another Punjabi folk song about victory and all that drama. In all honesty, there’s no superpower that can save the soundtrack of ‘A Flying Jatt’ from collapsing to the ground. Unless AR Rahman was hired for rest of the compositions, or even better if the title track remains the only composition in the entire movie.