Movie Review: Bobby Jasoos

Whenever people talk about detectives, the image of James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Feluda etc popup in our mind. Bollywood has started to treat the subject from a different angle, it started with Joe B Carvalho which was a disaster, and actually it deserved to be a disaster. Before that there was Barfi too, it was not exactly a spy flick but still a little bit detective touch was there but that film was also criticized for more than half of the scenes copied from Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Chan films. Now the latest entry into this race is the movie which I am going to talk about today.

 The story is set in Hyderabad. A small time private detective (Vidya Balan) who aspires to work in a private detective firm pursues her spying passion by solving neighborhood cases of little account. Her name is Bilqis Ahmed popularly referred to as Bobby Jasoos. She has least interest in household work and therefore is most of the time neglected by her father. What drives the story is the one chance she gets when a man named Anees Khan (Kiran Kumar) approaches her and offers her huge amount of money to find a girl. He doesn’t provide her any solid identity of the girl except a birthmark. She enthusiastically takes up the case and finds her, after this he offers her more amount to find another girl, and this is how the story proceeds giving the audience a twist at the end. Do not be too enthusiastic about it because the twist is not too much unexpected kind of. The story also has a touch of romance and emotions but I am sure that’s not exactly what audience is looking for; still, seeing the storyline, the emotional touch was a necessity.

This is the most easy going decent detective comedy which although has a villain angle but does not actually have a villain. It is one of those movies for which you can hold your patience and wait for it to air on television or subscribe on DTH. The movie does not have a very good storyline but the storyline is not bad either. A decent one time watch which entertains you at some moments, that’s what the movie is.

Vidya Balan was excellent in her character, she is a middle class unmarried girl who aspires to make it big; in all her looks that she possesses, be it the Jyotishi who reads palm for free, a bangle seller, student etc she was perfect throughout. Ali Fazal as Tasavur, Bobby’s friend who eventually falls in love with her, was also justified for his character. All the others specifically including Kiran Kumar as Anees Khan, Arjan Bajwa as Lala and Rajendra Gupta as Bobby’s father were great with their characters.  

Final advice, this movie is a decent watch for all those who are brain licked by watching Joe B Carvalho. This film is ten times better than that. The comedy is funny though not too much tickling but at the same time the writers and directors had not taken the help of illogical situations and characters.

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