Cert 12A
142 mins
BBFC advice: Contains moderate violence
Perhaps it was the fact that I was still a little jaded from the previous evening's school reunion but I was left utterly perplexed by one major element of Harjeet Singh Ricky's Punjabi comedy.
The film is titled Jatt Airways and the opening credits are accompanied by the lead cast members in airline uniforms but for the remaining 140 minutes there is nothing about airports, planes, pilots, cabin crew etc etc etc.
So why Jatt Airways? Answers in the comment box below please.
Mind you, the whole experience of watching this movie was rather surreal - not least because I was the only person in screen 14 at the Vue Cinema at Star City, Birmingham.
Thus, I can't give my usual report of how the Punjabi audience was falling around laughing while I scarcely cracked a smile.
Nope - it was just me on my own with my stony face.
Why? Well, I don't really go for the zany comedy of the likes of Binnu Dillon, Jaswinder Bhalla and this had a very similar recipe to a glut of Indian pictures I have seen recently.
Indeed, there are lines surrounding a murder and a dead body which are uncannily similar to Lucky Di, Unlucky Story.
The premise begins with a confusion over a marriage proposal between two keen lads (Alfaaz and Padam Bhola) and two less interested but feisty lasses (Tulip Joshi ans Smriti Khanna).
Somehow their on-off love matches, prompted by their fathers (Bhalla and B.N. Sharma), become tangled with a gang boss's pursuit of some high-quality illegal diamonds.
This brings in the cops (led by the omnipresent Dhillon) and prompts the killings.
I found the ribaldry over the corpses very odd. Murder in itself isn't that funny and I couldn't fathom why anyone would not simply report a body to the cops.
But, hey, I didn't understand much about Jatt Airways.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 3/10