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Jagga Jasoos review: Tripping over fantasy

This musical-cum-caricaturish comedy is uncharacteristic of its actors, resulting in a drab fantasy

Jagga Jassos, Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor
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Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor in a still from 'Jagga Jasoos'

Ranjita Ganesan
The labour in Anurag Basu’s labour of love, Jagga Jasoos, is evident. The fantasy drama works overtime to be delightful but ends up, like its awkward protagonists, mainly spluttering and falling over itself. 
At the core of Basu’s most elaborate work to date, is the relationship between an abandoned boy and his father figure. The emotional effect their story hopes to have is quickly eclipsed as the film devolves into a series of breathless tricks and stunts.   
Jagga (Ranbir Kapoor) is adopted and raised lovingly by Bagchi (Saswata Chatterjee), a bumbling intelligence agent. The latter disappears one day without explanation, after