With the much awaited release of the year Jagga Jasoos, our expectations are deep inside the water because the film just failed to deliver at all levels. Except Ranbir Kapoor's portrayal of his character Jagga, there is nothing else in the film that makes it a good watch. The random songs playing all the time, to the confusing story line and the bad editing, nothing really saved the film. Anurag Basu was expected to come back with a bigger bang after his last success with Ranbir - Barfi. But the audience is left highly disappointed. Its a really bad take at an attempt to create a musical. The cinematography is decent but thats about it. To know the complete story and unveil the mystery, check the movie out yourself, at your own risk we must add!

Anurag Basu has a trust worthy lieutenant in cinematographer Ravi Varman. His camera entices you to enter the world of Jagga and once you’re there, Basu ensures your stay for a longer period. Jagga Jasoos is poster perfect, beautiful and soothing. Basu’s handling of the backdrop intrigues from the very beginning, his human formations and musical beats create a rhythm we rarely see in Bollywood. His dreamland is mostly composed with moving props. It could be anything from a giraffe to an ostrich. Be it Jagga’s specially designed bike or a decorated elephant crossing an empty street, every frame gives you something to hook on. After a few minutes, you willingly glide through his world. ou remember how it felt while reading Roald Dahl or Harry Potter? The same happens while watching Jagga Jasoos. You are watching the visuals projected at you, but you’re also imagining a different world inspired from them. Thankfully, he goes for more interesting formations than relying on dialogues. Action sequences keep getting better structured and amazingly synchronized. Coupled with Pritam’s soulful tunes, they bring in a unique look and feel to Jagga Jasoos. But extra focus to amuse the audience leaves the chemistry between the leads in a lurch. It’s hard to find anything sparkling there. As a film, Jagga Jasoos isn’t satisfied only with being an incredible adventure saga. It desires to become a comment on social evils. This idea affects the flow of the film in the second half. The stunning visuals we behold in the first half mixes up in the stretched story in the second. It’s somewhere in the second half, you suddenly realise how multi-dimensional the story has suddenly become. The 161-minute duration of the film doesn’t help either. It’s a cliché, but no other word can sum up Jagga Jasoos better: Cinematic. Well, that’s it. Jagga Jasoos is the most ‘cinematic’ film you have seen in the recent months. Plunge to never come out of the world of Jagga Jasoos.

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. 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. 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. Indeed, Jagga Jasoos does not hold its avowed course all the way over its nearly three-hour runtime. Thanks to the film's eclectic soundscape and peppy musical numbers - there are plenty of them because the male protagonist communicates mostly through the medium of impromptu song - and the bright and varied colour palette used by director of photography S. Ravi Varman, Jagga Jasoos is never less than entertaining and dazzling. If only it had greater coherence and consistency as a fable for our troubled times, it would have been an unqualified triumph. It isn't. And that is a shame because in terms of its conception and execution the film does exude a great deal of warmth and joyful abandon. It is intermittently infectious all right and that might prompt the audience to overlook some of the glitches that stare us in the face. If Jagga Jasoos, for all its deviations, passes muster, it is largely due to a pivotal star turn that is worth its weight in gold and the heartily surreal touches that Basu imparts to this colourful, imaginative fantasy. It might take a while for audiences accustomed to more familiar generic idioms to get into the spirit of the film. Once you do it, it could be pretty easy to see that Jagga Jasoos has enough enjoyable passages to keep you hooked to its defiantly askew rhythm. But the line separating the two possibilities, be warned, is thin indeed.

Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif are left to fend for themselves in a sinking plot. Jagga Jasoos movie review: In the near-three hours of the run time of the film there’s everything else, with Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif chasing bent spies, arms dealers, and sundry other smaller fry, while, of course, saving the world but it forgets to give us a story. A solid, engaging plot would have been just the ticket for both the film and hard-working hero ( the leading lady mysteriously swings both ways : in some parts she seems very much a part of the proceedings, and in others just sleep-walking through her scenes). Done right, it would have been the world’s first musical spy thriller. The best part of the film is between the young Jagga and Chatterjee. A couple of the spanking songs are great fun. That’s when the movie speaks in its own voice : in the rest, it is trying to be a desi Spielberg without any of its verve. At one point in the film, a character is made to ask : bore ho gaye na? The answer, of course, is : haan bhai haan.