{"id":71818,"date":"2017-07-14T18:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=71818"},"modified":"2017-12-05T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T05:41:37","slug":"jagga-jasoos-movie-review-a-dazzling-musical-not-for-masala-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/movies\/jagga-jasoos-movie-review-a-dazzling-musical-not-for-masala-lovers","title":{"rendered":"Jagga Jasoos Movie Review &#8211; A Dazzling Musical, Not For Masala Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/movies\/jagga-jasoos-movie-review-a-dazzling-musical-not-for-masala-lovers\/attachment\/jagga-jasoos\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2017\/07\/jagga-jasoos.jpg\" alt=\"jagga-jasoos\" width=\"669\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2017\/07\/jagga-jasoos.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2017\/07\/jagga-jasoos-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2017\/07\/jagga-jasoos-665x347.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Cast &#8211; Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Saswata Chatterjee, Saurabh Shukla, Nawazuddin Siddiqui<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Directed by &#8211; Anurag Basu<\/li>\n<li>Produced by &#8211; Siddharth Roy Kapur, Anurag Basu, Ranbir Kapoor<\/li>\n<li>Written by &#8211; Anurag Basu<\/li>\n<li>Music by &#8211; Pritam<\/li>\n<li>Cinematography &#8211; Ravi Varman<\/li>\n<li>Edited by &#8211; Akiv Ali<\/li>\n<li>Production house &#8211; Disney India, Picture Shuru Entertainment, Ishana Movies<\/li>\n<li>Running time \u2013 3 hours<\/li>\n<li>Censor Rating \u2013 U\/A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Musicals In India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking at standard Bollywood fare (let&#8217;s call them the Masala Movies), all Indian movies look like musicals, some films featuring even up to 10 songs.\u00a0 The very genre, however, encompasses much more than song and dance routines. \u00a0La La land, Mamma Mia! The King And I, Fiddler on The Roof \u2013 these are musicals in the true sense of the term. With Jagga Jasoos we see the entry of musicals in Bollywood.\u00a0 Like anything new Anurag Basu&#8217;s latest flick is a deliciously crazy but is also a spectacularly colourful and adventurous project.<\/p>\n<p>Let us get one thing straight \u2013 Jagga Jasoos is not strictly a children\u2019s film \u2013 it is more of a movie that is likely to appeal to young adults and adults who suffer from bouts of nostalgia for the bygone era. A project like Jagga Jasoos comes by rarely and director Anurag Basu was certainly not ready to let it pass. Turning the film into a beautiful tribute to the stories and films that marked his childhood \u00a0and perhaps your growing up years too &#8211; <em>Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne<\/em> (Shundi, remember?), Feluda, Tintin, and Sherlock Homes. Tied in are themes that tug our heart strings &#8211; boarding schools in Darjeeling, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose&#8217;s purported secret passageway from Burma to north east India.<\/p>\n<p>Jagga Jasoos is the story of Jagga, a boy with a stutter, who is adopted by Prof. Badal Bagchi aka Badluck Bagchi aka Tutty Futty, and taught to sing to be able to communicate. But Bagchi is involved in a very sinister plot and has to leave Jagga at a boarding school. Long story short, Jagga grows up to be a Jasoos and with the help of reporter Shruti Sengupta, sets out in search of his foster father. Providing the backdrop is the roaring arms trade business of the world and the Purulia Arms Drop incident of 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Too Much Music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pritam\u2019s tracks breathe fresh life into the tirade music that has been coming out of Bollywood for a while now. The songs are quirky and fast and are quite capable of whisking you away into the make-believe world of Jagga Jasoos. There are about 6 listed soundtracks and over 20 screenplay songs (dialogues played out as songs) that make Jagga Jasoos the perfect musical. The lyrics (most of them by Amitabh Bhattacharya) may start out as nonsense verses but come up with a profundity that belies the lightness with which the songs have been treated. Khaana Khaahke is the perfect example of this. So unless you believe that \u201ctoo much music\u201d (whatever that may be) is a shortcoming, Jagga Jasoos is a delight. This film is testimony that Indian music composers need only an opportunity to mature from the sad number \u2013 romantic number routine and to come up with some fantastic songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Good, What\u2019s Not?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The USP of Jagga Jasoos is the tripod that it rests on.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ranbir Kapoor \u2013 We\u2019re truly convinced that Ranbir Kapoor is India\u2019s answer to Jim Carrey. Or perhaps a new an improved version of Carrey who carries (pun intended) off Bollywood style dances and romances with equal \u00e9lan. In and as Jagga Jasoos, Ranbir is spontaneous and full of energy. As a showman he reminds us (quite a bit) of his grandfather Raj Kapoor.<\/li>\n<li>Ravi Varman &#8211; Cinematographer Ravi Varman is at his best. Shot across the beautiful landscapes of Darjeeling, beaches of Thailand, and deserts of Morocco &#8211; each shot fills the screen with stunning colours and vivid sights. This dreamland in which Jagga&#8217;s story unfolds is the soul of the film.<\/li>\n<li>Anurag Basu \u2013 The director\u2019s own fertile imagination combined with the ability to take on an ambitious but certainly risky project certainly earns him brownie points. The adaptation of stage techniques adds to the directorial finesse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A hat tip to Saswata Chatterjee and Katrina Kaif for supporting Ranbir on screen very ably.<\/p>\n<p>The lack or at least slackness of editing is a major flaw. Jagga loses its audience somewhere in the second half. The director in his attempt to keep the creative juices flowing loses track of the plot at times. Going overboard is another pitfall creative directors must avoid. Unfortunately, Basu could not manage it at many places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Verdict <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Things we know \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Jagga Jasoos is a class apart<\/p>\n<p>Jagga Jasoos brings to Bollywood a much needed genre \u2013 musicals<\/p>\n<p>Jagga Jasoos in any part of the world (apart from India) would have been the next craze for the \u2018young adult\u2019 audience<\/p>\n<p>Jagga Jasoos may have a sequel coming<\/p>\n<p>Jagga Jasoos is a very creatively made movie which showcases superb cinematography, Ranbir Kapoor at his best, stunning visuals<\/p>\n<p>Things we don\u2019t know \u2013<\/p>\n<p>If the action loving, glamour addicted average Indian moviegoer will appreciate Jagga Jasoos<\/p>\n<p>So if you are looking for a run-of-the-mill movie or star power or something with realistic action or even a plot, you are likely to be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>If you are, however, used to musicals, have or at least like children, are interested in fantasy or Feluda-style detective stories and still (albeit secretly) read Tintin; if you are ready to witness the introduction of a new genre into Indian cinema, ready to sample this audiovisual treat &#8211; \u00a0head straight out, book your ticket, and watch Jagga Jasoos.<\/p>\n<p>Rating \u2013 3\u00bd *<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/movies\/new-upcoming-movies-releasing-this-week-on-friday\" target=\"_blank\">Upcoming Bollywood Movies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bollywood Movie Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/movies\/10-best-bollywood-comedy-movies-of-all-time\" target=\"_blank\">Best Bollywood Comedy Movies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Cast &#8211; Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Saswata Chatterjee, Saurabh Shukla, Nawazuddin Siddiqui \u00a0 Directed by &#8211; Anurag Basu Produced by &#8211; Siddharth Roy Kapur, Anurag Basu, Ranbir Kapoor Written by &#8211; Anurag Basu Music by &#8211; Pritam Cinematography &#8211; Ravi Varman Edited by &#8211; Akiv Ali Production house &#8211; Disney India, Picture Shuru Entertainment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":71829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11315,9],"tags":[8156,8157,8158],"class_list":{"0":"post-71818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india","8":"category-movies","9":"tag-jagga-jasoos-movie-review","10":"tag-jagga-jasoos-ratings","11":"tag-jagga-jasoos-star-ratings"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74371,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71818\/revisions\/74371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}