He’s the flying jat, not flying sikh

The title of Tiger Shroff’s super-hero film has been changed from The Flying Sikh to The Flying Jat. The makers didn’t want the title to be associated with legendary sprinter Milkha Singh, who is known as “the flying Sikh” and on whose life a film has already been made. Says a source close to the project, “It was felt that the association of the title with Milkha Singh was too strong. The title has been changed to The Flying Jat.” Tiger’s Sardarji-superhero character remains unchanged. “He will still play a superhero in a turban, a first for our cinema,” says the source.

The film’s director Remo D’Souza says, “I want to bring the same level of excellence in The Flying Jat that we see in the Hollywood superhero films. I am inviting the same special-effects guys from Hollywood who do the Batman and Superman films. Let’s see how the results turn out.”