Movie Review: Bobby Jasoos

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Even though its a bit late, I think this movie deserves a review...

Vidya Balan has created a place for herself in the industry - that is something no one can take away from her. I actually will go and watch a movie just because she is there. As some may say, she is the female Aamir Khan of Bollywood. And the reason for that is her attitude - I will do what suits me and what I want to do. The rest can go wherever they want to!

Her last outing failed to impress - Shaadi ke side effects. But Bobby Jasoos didn't. A very different movie on a girl from a middle class family in Hyderabad with a junoon in her head to be a detective. After a tough time, she makes it big because of one of her clients who asks her to look for young people who vanish mysteriously after she does that successfully.

Lot of things happen on the way, ending with her finding out the truth about the client. But the story in this movie is not the highlight though. Its a lot more about the journey of Bobby - what she learns and trips on during this time. The struggle of being a girl with different ideas. The people who help her on the way. The people who don't (including her father). Its all a journey into her travails which this movie unravels.

The hero in the movie is irrelevant. Its all about Vidya and Hyderabad in their glory. Vidya in her disguises and Hyderabad in the visuals.

A must watch I would say and would give it 3 stars.

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