When we sit down to watch a detective movie, we tend expect thrills, chills and frills and a fantastic twist in the end and the occasional red herrings dropped in, just to ensure that we, the viewers also play detective and try to solve the mystery long before the protagonist does.
Unfortunately, watching BOBBY JASOOS has nothing of the above and is more like a cheap detective paperback aimed at preteens. You actually get to see more cliffhangers in A Nancy Drew paperback.
For starters, the movie cannot decide whether it wants us to take it seriously or it is just something done in a lighter vein. Bilkis Ahmed AKA Bobby (Vidya Balan) is an aspiring detective, given the passover by a major detective agency, has her own office or rather a cabin in an internet center at Mughalpoora, Hyderabad.
Her father (Rajendra Gupta) is quite upset about her escapades and wants her to settle down and get married to someone.
She is soon engaged to Tasawur (Ali Fazal) a talk show host, who arranges a kind of deal with Bobby that they should get the marriage canceled, and it is up to Bobby to think of a way because Tasawur is not man enough to stand against his father.
Meanwhile Bobby lands up a case. A rich NRI Anees Khan (Kiran Kumar) offers her 50 grand to search for a girl and only gives her a name and a clue that she might be in mughalpura and also she has a mole on her right hand,and lays down a condition that when the girl is found Bobby should not attempt to contact but should inform Anees.
Bobby finds the girl and Anees gives her another case and this time raises the fee to one lakh and asks her to find a girl with a mole on her shoulder.
Bobby does it and the NRI gifts her a office space. Accidentally Bobby learns that both the girls are missing and she senses something wrong about Anees Khan and decides to investigate about him with help from Tasawur.
The ending is so hopeless that you end up looking around in frustration in the hope of finding something with which you can hit your head with, so that the climax makes some sense.
Actors like Supriya Pathak, Tanvi Azmi and Zarina Wahab are wasted in inconsequential roles.
The much talked about disguises of Vidya Balan leave a bad taste as they appeared forced and though the lady holds the movie together, we can see that she is fighting a losing battle.
Dia Mirza did an impressive job with production values and the filming in Hyderabad was a good idea, that's about it. The sweet on ears Hyderabad dialect, the reference to biryani –well! This would make a someone from Hyderabad happy, but what about the rest of India?
Shantanu Moitra's music is too loud and at times threatens to engulf the lines spoken by the actors.
Kiran Kumar is menacing as ever-too bad the actor is not to be seen much now a days.
Samar Sheikh could have picked up a better story when he had someone like Vidya Balan aboard. Well! a pat on his back for at least making what could have been a 20 minute TV episode into a 2 hr movie.
Unfortunately, watching BOBBY JASOOS has nothing of the above and is more like a cheap detective paperback aimed at preteens. You actually get to see more cliffhangers in A Nancy Drew paperback.
For starters, the movie cannot decide whether it wants us to take it seriously or it is just something done in a lighter vein. Bilkis Ahmed AKA Bobby (Vidya Balan) is an aspiring detective, given the passover by a major detective agency, has her own office or rather a cabin in an internet center at Mughalpoora, Hyderabad.
Her father (Rajendra Gupta) is quite upset about her escapades and wants her to settle down and get married to someone.
She is soon engaged to Tasawur (Ali Fazal) a talk show host, who arranges a kind of deal with Bobby that they should get the marriage canceled, and it is up to Bobby to think of a way because Tasawur is not man enough to stand against his father.
Meanwhile Bobby lands up a case. A rich NRI Anees Khan (Kiran Kumar) offers her 50 grand to search for a girl and only gives her a name and a clue that she might be in mughalpura and also she has a mole on her right hand,and lays down a condition that when the girl is found Bobby should not attempt to contact but should inform Anees.
Bobby finds the girl and Anees gives her another case and this time raises the fee to one lakh and asks her to find a girl with a mole on her shoulder.
Bobby does it and the NRI gifts her a office space. Accidentally Bobby learns that both the girls are missing and she senses something wrong about Anees Khan and decides to investigate about him with help from Tasawur.
The ending is so hopeless that you end up looking around in frustration in the hope of finding something with which you can hit your head with, so that the climax makes some sense.
Actors like Supriya Pathak, Tanvi Azmi and Zarina Wahab are wasted in inconsequential roles.
The much talked about disguises of Vidya Balan leave a bad taste as they appeared forced and though the lady holds the movie together, we can see that she is fighting a losing battle.
Dia Mirza did an impressive job with production values and the filming in Hyderabad was a good idea, that's about it. The sweet on ears Hyderabad dialect, the reference to biryani –well! This would make a someone from Hyderabad happy, but what about the rest of India?
Shantanu Moitra's music is too loud and at times threatens to engulf the lines spoken by the actors.
Kiran Kumar is menacing as ever-too bad the actor is not to be seen much now a days.
Samar Sheikh could have picked up a better story when he had someone like Vidya Balan aboard. Well! a pat on his back for at least making what could have been a 20 minute TV episode into a 2 hr movie.