Kung Fu Yoga is an effort to merge Chinese and Bollywood film fundas together to whip up something almost as good as the Indo-Chinese food fusion! Sadly though it does not live up to the promise. Kung Fu Yoga was announced in May 2015 as one of three Chinese-Indian projects commissioned during Xi Jinping’s state visit to India. However, co-producer Viacom 18, one of Bollywood’s biggest studios, soon pulled out. Thus making the screenplay too heavily skewed towards mainland Chinese tastes to explore ideas, in turn marking a missed opportunity for an original mashup of Bollywood and Chinese entertainment styles.
With a story line that briefly goes like, Chinese archaeology professor Jack (Jackie Chan) teams up with Indian professor Ashmita and assistant Kyra to locate lost Magadha treasure. In a Tibetan ice cave, they find the remains of the royal army that had vanished together with the treasure, only to be ambushed by Randall (Sonu Sood), the descendent of a rebel army leader. When they free themselves, their next stop is Dubai where a diamond from the ice cave is to be auctioned. After a series of double-crosses and revelations about their past, Jack and his team travel to a mountain temple in India, using the diamond as a key to unlock the real treasure.
Although if you are a Jackie Chan fan and like brainless comedy movies, you just might end up enjoying this one. Kung-Fu Yoga has some good slapstick comedy and adequate fight scenes, not to mention a typical Bollywood number, but not nearly enough to justify sticking it out for 107 long minutes. It’s a dicey difficult choice not made for everyone. Watch the trailer here https://goo.gl/XMQFQj
