Kung Fu Yoga(2017)

1h 47m

Release Date: Jan 27, 2017 | Limited

Two professors team up to locate a lost treasure and embark on an adventure that takes them from a Tibetan ice cave to Dubai, and to a mountain temple in India.

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Original Release | Jan 27, 2017

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Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$111,979
Total US & Canada:
$362,657
Total International
$257,391,232
Total Worldwide:
$257,753,889

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Director & Top Cast

Stanley Tong
Director

Miya Muqi
Actor

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: China,India,Hong Kong,South Korea,Iceland,United Arab Emirates

Language: Mandarin,English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Many centuries ago, A Chinese warrior teamed up with an Indian one to take on an evil King that threatened the Magadha kingdom. The pair was rewarded by the Magadha princesses for protecting their empire, in form of a large treasure. Legend says that the warrior pair got lost in a snowstorm and hid the treasure somewhere in India.Jack (Jackie Chan), a renowned professor of archaeology at the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi'an, teams up with young Indian professor Ashmita (Disha Patani) from National Museum Institute, Rajasthan to locate India's lost Magadha treasure in Tibet. This is based on an ancient map that is in Ashmita's possession, which she claims was made by the Indian warrior, after he escaped alive from the snowstorm. Using modern technology their team find the treasure underneath a frozen lake. However, they are interrupted by Randall (Sonu Sood) who steals the treasure and leaves them there to die. In the chaos, Jones - a member from Jack's team who is more a treasure hunter than an archaeologist smuggles away with a diamond artifact.Jack's and Ashmita's team manage to escape from the underground icy cavern through an opening. Two weeks later the 212-carat diamond artifact pops up in Dubai for auctions at the black market. Jack to save his job attempts to take back the artifact with the help of a rich friend. Jack wins the auction, but Randall strikes again with his goons which result in a high-speed car chase through heavy traffic in Dubai. In the chase Ashmita snatches it from them. Jack traces about Ashmita's whereabouts and finds she isn't who she claimed to be before but the youngest descendant of Magadha royalty. Ashmita explains the diamond artifact is known as the "eye of Shiva" in their family chronicles and it is the key to immense treasure hidden somewhere. She asks Jack to help her to find the real treasure and protect it from wrong hands.They further find the diamond artifact is a part of a scepter that opens a map room built using Vastu Shastra and astronomical positions of that period in a closed part of a sacred temple. Randall kidnaps Jack and Ashmita, demands to find the treasure for him because the treasure belonged to his family. They all together find the map room which happens to be a puzzle room where a wrong move can cost lives.They reach to an underground Shiva temple made out of gold that is nearby a secluded waterfall. Reaching there, Randall's group begins to extract gems and diamonds from the temple decorations and searches for the treasure but to his despair they find the treasure that the legend says is ancient knowledge about Medicine, Buddhism, Mechanical structures, etc.In despair Randall tries to destroy everything. But Jack, Ashmita and their team start a fight to stop them. Jack fights using principles of yoga and Kung Fu to beat down Randall and convinces him the significant importance of this finding. Meanwhile, a group of Sannyasis comes down through the new opening above ground and by seeing the magnificence of the deity in underground temple they start to sing and dance in joy. The groups that were fighting, realizing their pettiness stop fighting and happily join with the joyous expression.

Storyline

Chinese archeology professor Jack (Jackie Chan) teams up with beautiful 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. — Official