The film, which features Chan as a professor of archaeology who teams up with an Indian counterpart to search for lost treasure in Tibet, appears to have gone down well enough in China, but Indian critics have been noticeably hostile.
Mid-Day objected to it as “desi exotica – starring snake charmers, and the great Indian rope trick”.
The film, which reunites celebrated Chinese actor Chan with his Rumble in the Bronx director Stanley Tong, was planned in part to “marry … the film traditions of China and India”.
Jackie Chan’s new film Kung Fu Yoga – a high-profile product of the co-production agreement between China and India, signed in 2014 – has come under a barrage of criticism in India for perpetuating outdated and offensive stereotypes.