New Delhi, April 11 -- Will Sunny Deol-or the makers of any film starring him-ever move past the overused 'Yeh dhai kilo ka haath' (this two and a half kilo hand) line of dialogue from the 1993 film Damini? Clearly not, because writer-director Gopichand Malineni revives it once again it as a front-bencher-pleasing proclamation in the Hindi language action drama Jaat, headlined by Deol. Famed in the North, Deol's character Baldev Pratap Singh declares that it is now time the south gets acquainted with his legendary and destructive hand.

Having worked predominantly in the Telugu film industry, Malineni approaches his Hindi debut with a by-the-numbers attempt at a pan-Indian film, casting actors familiar to Marathi, Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil...