Jagga Jasoos

2017 ‘जग्गा जासूस’ Directed by Anurag Basu

A gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.

Ranbir Kapoor Katrina Kaif Sayani Gupta Saswata Chatterjee Saurabh Shukla Denzil Smith Ivan Rodrigues Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Alternative Titles

자가 자수스, Детектив Джагга

comedy romance adventure mystery

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Review by alli🔅 ★★★★½

What happens when a Bengali director decides to bring his childhood world to life - filled with references to Tintin & Feluda, Bengal-centric historical events (Purulia Arms Drop, Netaji), a most amusing reference to Satyajit Ray - films it through a Wes Anderson lens and wants to be socially aware at the same time?
Jagga Jasoos happens.
Review by Shikhar Verma ★★★

Very early in the film, a character points out that there are two sides of the brain – the left and the right. While the left side fears the world that is constantly trying to mock anything that’s different, the right side embraces all the creativity that brims inside. Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos with his child-like innocence and infectious energy does exactly that. Taking pages out of the textbooks of The Adventures of Tintin, framing them in the slapstick humor of Buster Keaton & Charlie Chaplin and donning the world that is part whimsical, part real and partly made out of magic realism and fairy dust (read: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie & Delicatessen), Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos is a coming of age film that sings its philosophy to you. It rejoices and embraces its flaws with a sugar rush that is in itself a beautiful thing to behold.
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Review by Monika ★★½

Bollywood & Indian cinema mini-challenge 2017: Comedy & the masala genre. (December theme)
This film is a slapstick comedy, a detective crime story, a Bollywood-style musical, a Western-style musical (first time I've seen this genre in a Bollywood film btw), a romance, an adventure film, a family film, a political drama about the illegal weapons trade, a family melodrama, an action film and probably a few other things I've forgotten to mention. Even in masala film terms it packs in a lot of stuff. And as much as trying to put in so much into one film is an interesting experiment, it doesn't result in a coherent film IMO.
I liked the second half a little more, particularly one of the sequences…
Review by Courtney Cheshire ★★★★½

This was Indian Tin Tin with an overarching moral about the global arms trade and my wig is SNATCHED
Review by Ivan Nagar ★★½ 2

Hindi films are not 'musicals' in the Hollywood sense of the term, and it is evident straightaway that Anurag Basu fails to make that distinction. What Basu lacks in thematic understanding he makes up with some vibrant richness of the film even if it feels cheap at times.
The narrative structure of rhyming everything gets tiring really quickly and it doesn't help that the plot itself is really stupid. Performances are quite poor and the dependable Ranbir Kapoor struggles to do a serviceable job with his character.

Sidenote - By principal I cannot and will not support anything that enables careers of terrible talentless actors like Katrina Kaif who could not speak (and to this day struggle to) the language…
Review by Kristina Winters ★★★★½

This is 12 movies, tied into one, and told in song. I couldn't have loved it more, well, unless I had a sequel.

Recent reviews

Review by kowdhikredd ★★★★

Masterpiece man!
Great Movie! Great Concept!
Gives Experience as a Disney Movie. But it's not a Disney's film.
Visually appealing!
Also Slightly Influenced by Wes Anderson's cartoonish Style.
Review by Varun Bhakay ★★½

I have to admit that I really didn’t like Barfi a lot. It had good performances but instead of the ‘homage’ it claimed to be to many films before it, it seemed lifted in far too many places.
Jagga Jasoos is better in terms of originality, though it does have certain co-incidental sequences. But in almost all other aspects, it fails stupendously in comparison to Anurag Basu’s previous film.
The story revolves around Jagga and his search for his missing foster father. It goes from Bengal to Manipur to Africa, creating a major muddle. The backdrop of the real-life Purulia Arms Drop of 1995 and militants adds a little bit of intrigue, which Basu then proceeds to screw up royally.…
Review by lana ★★★

i'm only about midway through the movie but this is boring and i'm very tempted to just watch something else but i will stay for the sake of finishing
update: i'm now realizing that i only liked the parts with katrina kaif, so it just reaffirms that i am Gay
Review by Shweta ★★★½

This movie was so gorgeous. Beautifully filmed and the songs were great. I often struggle with movies longer than 1.5 hours or so but I didn't even notice the runtime on this one since the world was so fun. The story however felt a bit convoluted - it was hard to fully understand what the antagonists were doing and overall the mystery aspect wasn't as central to the plot as I would have liked. Regardless, an enjoyable sweet film.
Review by Daniel ★★★

I did think this movie would be better the second time I saw it, and it was, but only slightly. The first part of this movie is surprisingly good, and it sets up for an amazing plot, which it only follows up during certain scenes. The ending was not very satisfying and after the half-way point the movie stops being entertaining and becomes dull. I do however like the acting by both Ranbir Kapoor and Katrine Kaif and the choreography and songs are actually quite good.
Review by rdjch ★★★★

This movie deserved better than what it got from the indian audience. I want that sequel!!
Review by Jodie ★ 2

I couldn't even finish it sorry ranbir
Review by mgautam ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Now I understand why Disney produced #JaggaJasoos.
It is a fantastical film. A magical movie. A love story. A family drama. A Disney Musical Adventure. And still more.
It is a movie that is bursting at its seam with ideas. So so many ideas.
It starts like a Tintin like action-adventure, mystery, comedy-drama story that turns into a tale of a son looking for his father and then into a journey where two people find love in each other and then in the end, it suddenly becomes an anti-war movie.
And all of this is set into a fantastical world created by the brilliant mind of Anurag Basu. And this fantastical world has its own monster too - a two-headed…
Review by swagjohnsonkp ★★★★

Should be a 3.5 but giving it bonus points for being a Bollywood movie that doesn’t conform itself to meta genre