We are a die-hard Vidya Balan fan (she is married to a sid…roy kapoor), also this movie by Samar Shaikh celebrates Hyderabad in all its glory (ancient city, dainty customs). Strongly recommended for those who are fan of wholesome family movies.
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Balan is at a career zenith and her roles don’t always warrant a
high-priced leading man. Like the modern woman, she can do quite well by
herself. Her Bilquis, though grounded in traditional values –
some overbearing, most of them strictly necessary – is an independent
minded, brilliant mix of the brave and the bold, so much like Balan’s
on-screen radiance, it’s impossible to not fall for her.
The
screenplay by Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh, directed with good eye for
subtleness by debutant Samar Shaikh, has Bobby in Moghalpura, Hyderabad,
in a family of six – two sisters, a brusque aunt (Tanvi Azmi), a
temperate mother (Supriya Pathak), and a tetchy dad (Rajendra Gupta).
…Bobby is an amateur
detective – a fiction-inspired ‘jasoos’, fascinated by the idea of
stealth and disguise.
Balan plays dress-up in most of her locality-bound cases. An imam
with a hunchbacked posture, a balding, bucktoothed palmist, a ‘quite
ordinary’ orderly, a television producer with impossible bosoms, and
several low-key burqas help her in nailing down culprits like sons who
smoke, adulterous spouses or snooping facts on eligible marriage
proposals.
Until one day, she is hired by Anees Khan (Kiran Kumar), a
shady character who wants her to track a girl named Nilofer, with only
the age and a birthmark in her hand as a lead….
The songs – there are three, with music by Shantanu Moitra – and the
cinematography by Vishal Sinha stay out of the way; they are
inconspicuous, but do their job well.
The other show-stealer, apart from Bobby, is the production design and the sensibility of the Hyderabadi lifestyle.
Samar Shaikh, who graduated from Assistant Directing (Dhoom, Badmaa$h Company) and storyboarding (Chakde! India, Dhoom 3), has a gift of keeping things in check without letting cliché step in – and that is a feat by itself.
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Link: http://www.dawn.com/news/1118574/movie-review-bobby-jasoos-a-must-watch
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