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Jagga Jasoos

2017 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 Karan Wahi Nawazuddin Siddiqui Brijendra Kala Rajatava Dutta

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Review by Allison ★★★★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 Varghese Eapen ★★★★ 1

Anurag Basu's imaginative vision has to be applauded. Like him or not he had the audacity to make such a film despite the numerous hurdles it faced. Think Tin Tin Meets Umbrellas of Cherbourgh. Exhaustive in length and over indulgent and yet i found it entertaining. The real surprise was to depict one of the most beautiful women in the world as a clumsy character and pull it off convincingly. This is probably the first time i feel a director was able to tap into the slapstick aspect of an actress who lets face it is not a very good actress on the surface level but here i was bewitched by whatever she did on screen. Ranbir Kapoor by default…
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 Justin Decloux ★★★½

It's exactly what it says on the box: A live-action Bollywood TINTIN style adventure film about a detective who can only communicate through song that goes on a worldwide adventure to find his missing father figure.

It's a shame they couldn't find a compelling finale.
Review by Courtney Cheshire ★★★★½

This was Indian Tin Tin with an overarching moral about the global arms trade and my wig is SNATCHED

Recent reviews

Review by ribcage ★★★★

I haven't seen much of Bollywood, but this is almost, almost a place I might start if I wanted to share it with someone else. It's a wonderful, light-hearted yet actiony adventure inspired strongly by TinTin and shot in a vibrant, popping comic book palette that just makes it a joy to sit and bask in.

It's framed as three stories combining to tell the main gun-runners conspiracy story. The first hour is dedicated to Jagga as a young boy, and while his friendship with his adoptive father who is forced to leave him an orphan again is necessary to both the story and the emotional weight of the movie, this hour feels overlong, and I was concerned about how…
Review by Varghese Eapen ★★★★ 1

Anurag Basu's imaginative vision has to be applauded. Like him or not he had the audacity to make such a film despite the numerous hurdles it faced. Think Tin Tin Meets Umbrellas of Cherbourgh. Exhaustive in length and over indulgent and yet i found it entertaining. The real surprise was to depict one of the most beautiful women in the world as a clumsy character and pull it off convincingly. This is probably the first time i feel a director was able to tap into the slapstick aspect of an actress who lets face it is not a very good actress on the surface level but here i was bewitched by whatever she did on screen. Ranbir Kapoor by default…
Review by 🌙 ★★★★

deserved better
Review by ultimatefanboy ★★

Haha fell asleep
Review by filhaal_nihal ★

An awesome actor like Ranbir wasted. Jagga played by Ranbir can't speak in simple sentences instead he sings in singer Shaan's voiceover to communicate.

At first it's great to match Shaan's voice but as the movie passes it turns out boring! Such a waste.
Review by Kumar Ritwik ★★

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

An attempted innovation, the kind of movies with the right intent/idea that has gone absolutely wrong :/ Badly made. You can almost visibly see the difference b/w the portion shot earlier than the ones later, where the filmmakers had dragged it out a bit and were facing a lot of crunches on the financial side as well. There are rarely any dialogues, and set in the North East -- it would surely remind you of Barfi! with the same combination of Ranbir & Basu. Another attempted Barfi gone horribly wrong, is what I think is the perfect way to describe it! but then again, trying new things in an industry as ours/catering to the audience like ours is pretty risky too.
Review by Cameron Wayne Johnson ★★★½

If a person has been missing so long that a VHS is your main lead on the investigation, I'm thinking we're long past the point when you give it up the lost cause. You can leave that to Philip E. Marlow, because this detective, struck with a severe stutter unless he sings, obviously has some skin in the case of his father's disappearance. Again, Jagga can only go on the VHS tape that is sent to him on his birthday, every single year after his father's disappearance. It's so ominous that I'm thinking our man just needs to watch one of the tapes and wait a week for his father to crawl out of the TV, but a clumsy journalist…
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.
Review by ErebusFarquad ★★★½

It was a fun movie. Ranbir poured his heart out and the music was definitely lovely.

But I have no idea why they had Katrina in there. She's simply a horrible actress.