These peculiarities, no matter how bizarre, are its innate characteristics. Joker through the ages: Golden, Silver and Bronze
To all this, no supernatural explanation is ever provided it is only explained that Jatt consumes an organic Punjabi diet (Punjabitarian?). Jatt can also hear his name miles away and break prison gates with a push. Some painkiller and bed rest and these blokes are jumping around the next day. On the receiving end, Maula Jatt and Noori Natt can be shot over and over till they’re drenched in blood and the most it seems to do is make them dizzy. Ali Kapadia offers a way out of the pitfalls of both approaches, taking inspiration from comic book multiverses. Will the makers of the Maula Jatt reboot take a purist approach or a revisionist one? M. In another instance, our heroine falls in love with Jatt without even meeting him - not because she learns he’s “ sadiq aur ameen”, but because he slashes a bunch of villagers, stabbing one to death. For instance, in the prequel Wehshi Jatt (1975), when a woman furiously rejects the sleazy advances from our hero’s sidekick, he slaps her so hard she rolls and falls, then turns and surprisingly thanks him for breaking her pride, tenderly confessing her undying love for him. To put it mildly, such allegiance to the original Jatt films would be as tasteless as stale pakoras. Beneath their crumbling layers, these films push toxic masculinity like it’s going out of style glorifying brute force and violence as attractive male traits. The story and characters would emulate that same old ethos, amplifying the same message. A purist approach would change appearances: extravagant sets, modern cinematography etc but not the ideology. A reboot is a remake with changes to garner fresh interest. Concerned, because I could only imagine two approaches at the filmmakers’ disposal both with pitfalls. Excited, because I see Maula Jatt as a half-baked superhero now in the hands of some talented filmmakers.
When I learned that a reboot of the Maula Jatt franchise was in the works, I was both excited and concerned. It’s such ideological face-offs that make superhero stories modern folklore, told and retold as sequels and reboots. Like the Joker, Noori is a laughing nihilist exuding ‘What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.’ Like the Batman, Maula is an idealist orphan fighting to bring justice to his hometown a fearless vigilante blocking Noori, threatening him … fascinating him. I depicted their uncanny similarities first in a 2015 essay, and later in a 2016 viral mashup video of The Dark Knight’s trailer.Įach story circles two eccentric misfits pushing each other’s psychosis. Such is the parity between Gotham’s Batman and Gujranwala’s Maula Jatt. History repeats itself, often in unlikely places.
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