It wanders off rather frequently, leaving the audience in an extended state of befuddlement. Indeed, Jagga Jasoos does not hold its avowed course all the way over its nearly three-hour runtime. Lead actor Ranbir Kapoor's undeniable gifts and amazing spontaneity lend the film its high level of energy and also powers it back to a semblance of stability when it looks in danger of keeling over the edge, especially at points where it overreaches. Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif in Jagga Jasoos (Courtesy: Jagga_JasoosFC) It might not get across to everybody in the audience, but the film is bound to resonate at a personal level for those who, like the writer-director, grew up on a staple of classic detective stories and lively Hollywood musicals. Therefore, although Jagga Jasoos is an out-an-out fantasy that is, like Ray's Goopy-Bagha adventure comedy series, aimed at children but couched in the tale is an overtly anti-militaristic message. Even if this film might feel like an epic misfire at times, Anurag Basu's deliciously zany, ambitious adventure drama, when it is on song, has an oddly bewitching quality.įrom all the references that Jagga Jasoos makes to Feluda and Sherlock Holmes, to Subhash Chandra Bose's daring secret forays into the Northeast from across the Burma border, to fictional Kenyan towns called Shundi (the land of the benevolent king in Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury's story and Satyajit Ray's film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne) and Tiktiki (Bengali for lizard, a slang for a private eye), it is clear that the film is Basu's tribute to the tales that he grew up with. A breezy, audaciously jaunty ride through the misadventures of a stuttering, bumbling boy-detective in search of his missing foster father, Jagga Jasoos has memorable madcap moments stemming principally from its free-flowing mix of music, dance, situational and slapstick comedy and wildly improbable action.
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