Bilkis Ahmad is the daughter of a middle class Muslim family in Hyderabad, colloquially referenced as Mughalpura. She has a rather uncommon desire, that to become a detective. She finds her own cases to work, occasionally gatecrashing the doorstep of a well-known detective agency to get herself a job there, but is consistently rejected a job there citing her lack of English knowledge and a qualification for being a detective. She now decides to start her own detective agency on being ignored. Will her detective agency kick off? Will she be able to taste success as a detective?
Language:
Hindi
Running Time:
121 min
Rating:
U
Release date:
4 July 2014
Directed by:
Samar Shaikh
Produced by:
Dia Mirza
Sahil Sangha
Written by:
Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh
Starring:
Vidya Balan
Ali Fazal
Vinay Varma
Gangadhar Panday
Anupriya Goenka
Arjan Bajwa
Music by:
Shantanu Moitra
Shot by:
Vishal Sinha
Editing by:
Hemal Kothari
Distributed by:
Reliance Entertainment

What’s Hot

  • The actors have given their memorable performances to give the movie the necessary fillip in rather dull and boring moments. Vidya Balan, Ali Fazal and Prasad Barve stand out in their respective roles to keep the laughter and banter going hand in hand.
  • The cinematography by Vishal Sinha deserves a mention as he has captured the grace and grandeur alike, of Hyderabad and its snaky streets.
  • Shantanu Moitra has crooned some good numbers for the movie. He has made sure that the songs stay as tuneful to the ears when the movie’s pace does not pick up much.

What’s Not

  • The story, even though an experimental one, has failed to transform itself into a good one for a full length movie. When we are speaking of a movie with a detective as its genre, we do expect good fodder for a detective. But what the story offers is not that, rather, it is mostly low-fi in nature.
  • For all that the story has to offer being an experimental one, the screenplay has not done enough justice to keep the audience hooked to the movie. There are a lot of moments which are open to question, like with the plot of the movie only. It is caught midway between being a thriller to becoming a family-oriented film.

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Verdict Stamp

Bobby Jasoos turns out to be a woeful story tried to be transformed into a gripping detective screenplay. The local hyderabadi dialect of Hindi with Urdu laced with it sounds good for most part of the movie. But all along, it is caught in its own question, whether to go the captivating way, or the family subject way and ends up doing as much as nothing.