Bobby Jasoos

It has been nearly 3 weeks since my last review.  For reasons that aren't the most pleasant and therefore will not be delved into.  But apparently I haven't missed much in Bollywood during my hiatus. Sajid Khan gave ACP Pradyumn and Daya their simplest case and Ritiesh Deshmukh played villain (I'm catching up with that next).

You can imagine what a movie slut like me would have gone through over the past 3 weeks.  And therefore I had to make sure that my first movie was a good one.  Vidya Balan seemed to be the best bet from Bollywood this week and Bobby Jasoos was chosen as the 9 am adventure. Unfortunately it wasn't a great choice.  The 3 hour Transformer flick would have been a better way to come back for sure!!!!

Bobby aka Bilkis Ahmed (Balan) is about 30 years old and single.  Not a surprising matter these days in metro India.  But when you superimpose this situation into a part of Hyderabad called Mughalpura, you have a dangerous combination!!! One in which the father of the house says, "Yeh ghar auraton ki kamai pe nahin chalta" (We don't need women to earn in this house).

So you can imagine the pressure on an aspiring detective like Bobby. On one hand she has to struggle to get a smile from her father (Rajendra Gupta) and on the other she has to deal with cases involving suspicious parents who want to find out if their son smokes!!!!  An aspect of Mughalpura that has been covered  quite well. Bobby also has a coupon friends - Shetty who is her landlord and Munna who gets her the cheesy clients.

Things are about to take a turn for the better when Khan (Kiran Kumar) walks in with an offer of `50K and overhead expenses to find  a girl called Nilofer who is 21 years old and has a 3 inch birth mark on her palm (Howlarious indeed)!!!!  If that doesn't throw you off your chair then the next one will because the 3 inches move to 4 but this time on the left upper arm. The rate moves to `1 lac.

Unfortunately for the audience, other than the rate for finding the next in line, nothing else increases.  In fact, if anything, the increase in rate is inversely proportional to entertainment value – not that there was too much entertainment to begin with.  The dialogue is poor.  The narration even more poor.

The songs are not entertaining at all and more importantly they are unnecessary.  They don’t fit into the story at all. Even the talent of Vidya Balan seems absent thanks to some tepid direction by debutante Samar Sheikh.  In short, Bobby Jasoos drifts, doesn’t pick pace and bores you.  Thankfully not to death.  4 on 10.  Only because it wasn’t horrid.  But not worth investing your time.

Watch the trailer on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTTNn_XEtE