Film review: ‘Jagga Jasoos’ a musical adventure
into the dreamy world
Review by: Mayur Patel
Expectations were high since watching the trailer of ‘Jagga Jasoos’, also because Basu-Kapoor duo has given us a classic, a five-star movie, like ‘Barfi’. Thankfully, JJ doesn’t disappoint to a large extent.
A boy, grown up in an orphanage, is a stutterer because of what he is shy and under-confident. He expresses himself by singing. Having a great sense for detailing, he eventually becomes an unofficial Jasoos aka detective and starts solving mysteries. Interesting concept turns into an okaiesh screenplay, but results into a well-executed comic adventure.
Lyrical Dialogue Baazi, woven so nicely into the proceedings, lightens the mood of the film. Pritam’s music is a winner here. Choreography is unique and Kapoor-Kaif did full justice to it. Camera work is of international standard. Each and every frame of the movie is ‘painted’ with great finesse. After all it’s a Disney Presentation. It’s the abundance of color and crystal clear cinematography that makes JJ immensely good-looking.
Review by: Mayur Patel
Expectations were high since watching the trailer of ‘Jagga Jasoos’, also because Basu-Kapoor duo has given us a classic, a five-star movie, like ‘Barfi’. Thankfully, JJ doesn’t disappoint to a large extent.
A boy, grown up in an orphanage, is a stutterer because of what he is shy and under-confident. He expresses himself by singing. Having a great sense for detailing, he eventually becomes an unofficial Jasoos aka detective and starts solving mysteries. Interesting concept turns into an okaiesh screenplay, but results into a well-executed comic adventure.
Lyrical Dialogue Baazi, woven so nicely into the proceedings, lightens the mood of the film. Pritam’s music is a winner here. Choreography is unique and Kapoor-Kaif did full justice to it. Camera work is of international standard. Each and every frame of the movie is ‘painted’ with great finesse. After all it’s a Disney Presentation. It’s the abundance of color and crystal clear cinematography that makes JJ immensely good-looking.
After ‘Barfi’ and ‘Rock star’, Ranbir Kapoor shines bright yet again. He radiates positivity throughout the movie which adds life into the tale. Katrina is much better than what she has been in the past. The biggest achievement for her is that her accent doesn’t bother your ears. Her chemistry with Kapoor is superlative. No shades of their break-up is visible anywhere. Such professionalism! Shashvat Chaterjee as Tooti-Phooti and Saurabh Shukla as the Baddy are fabulous in their parts.
The flip side of JJ is the length. 161 minutes!! It doesn’t get boring but feels a bit stretched towards the ending. Songs like ‘khana khake…’ and ‘Nimboo pani…’ would have been easily trimmed without disturbing the narrative. The action in the climax is good but could have been better. A little more slickness was needed there. The film, as we all know, has been shot, re-shot, and shot-again, but the editing is so smooth that it doesn’t seem jerky or patchy at any point.
Ranbir’s hairstyle is copied from the famous cartoon character TinTin, a moment in an action sequesnce is also copied from the last Tintin movie, and JJ boasts on the shadows of several hollywood movies, but all these copy-pasting is pardoned because this hath-ki-safai as been done so cleverly by the captain of the ship- Anurag Basu.
JJ has a nice twist in the ending, which promises an interesting sequel. In all, this musical adventure comedy is worth your bucks. take your kids with you. they’re gonna love it. 3.5 stars from me.
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