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JJ Review: Watch Real Life Animation! Innovative and Beautiful!

Jagga Jasoos finally released after a delay of 4 years,  but was it worth the wait?  Let's find that out. JJ is a proud attempt at musicals in Bollywood.  The movie did go haywire but does deserve applaud for its attempt.

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Ranbir Kapoor as the lead protagonist Jagga is outstanding. His stammering, acting,  eyes emotions are well depicted.  Saswata Chaterjee as Jagga's father does an amazing job. His act is short but effective. Katrina Kaif like always is ineffective and just a pretty face. Saurabh Shukla as ACP Sinha is amusing and entertaining. Everyone except Katrina do an excellent job.

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The major attraction of the movie is its music. Given by Pritam,  the music is nice but at times goes a little too overboard. Songs like "Ullu ka Pattha", "Galti se Mistake" are simply amazing and foot tapping.  It's not easy to watch the movie that has 29 songs if the story and screenplay are not tight enough to hold viewers attention. And the movie misfires at this level. A lousy screenplay ruin this good musical and it's pace.  Had the screenplay been taut JJ would have been a great musical. Nonetheless,  the direction,  lyrics,  dialogues(which have a lyrical approach to them) are good. Anurag Basu does try to craft a masterpiece but fails. What is really great is that JJ gives us major feels of an animation movie.  It brings animation come alive in real life with real actors.  Such was the brilliance of its camerawork. Innovative!

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With all things said,  JJ could have been a better movie but with main ingredient of story and screenplay missing,  JJ settles for a one time watch. The movie should be watched because of it being a potential musical and it is thoroughly a Disney Movie with colours,  vibrancy all over. I am going with 3 stars for the movie and another half star for Ranbir's effortless performance. Box Office should be between 55-75 crores. The movie is following Dil Dhadakne Do's trend.

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Like Ranbir's 2015 gem, Tamasha, Jagga Jasoos is bound to have extreme  reactions of audience- Either good or bad. Barely will an "Ok type" be heard for this movie.

P.S. Do NOT watch JJ if you don't like musicals and you prefer a fast pace movie because JJ is slow.

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