Anurag Basu’s experimentation doesn’t stop with the music alone. There is a comic-book touch to the characters — from the Tin Tin hairstyle of Jagga (Ranbir in great form, save the overdoing of the stammering) to the bumbling ways of the love interest and unwitting sidekick Shruti Sengupta (Katrina Kaif, good fit for a cartoony role). The touch of whimsy is heightened in the way a reading of the Jagga Jasoos books is used as a linking device to move from one adventure to another — from the mystery of clock tower to the murder on the giant wheel. There is a conscious scaling up when it comes to the visuals though I did feel the colours seemed a little too saturated and then off at times. And like every good detective story the film makes you travel to distant, exotic lands, complete with zebras, giraffes and emus. Jagga Jasoos’s fantasy does get fantastic.
