{"id":1182,"date":"2016-06-22T17:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:00:45","slug":"jagga-jasoos-review-ranbir-kapoor-katrina-kaif-anurag-basu-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Jagga Jasoos: A Lesson in Speech Therapy For Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span>grew up in an orthodox Bengali household that held two things sacrosanct: any meal was incomplete without roshogollas, and every member of the extended family was to spend the four days of Durga Pujo at our century-old ancestral house in the Bengal countryside. It was the only time of the year that my sister and I got to hang with my cousins, passing the days in a blur of giggling fits and role-playing Feluda.\n\nIn this elaborate affair, two people would be entrusted with creating a case and laying clues, while the role of the swashbuckling Feluda would be rotated among all the cousins \u2013 all cousins except Babai, that is. The youngest of us all was never permitted to live out his fantasy of playing Feluda. Babai was a shy, curious, ever-smiling boy. For us, though, his identity hinged on his biggest embarrassment, his crippling stutter. He stopped asking to play Feluda after my eldest cousin bullied him into believing that \u201ctotla chhelera goyenda hote pare naa\u201d (stuttering boys can\u2019t make detectives).\n\nI was reminded of our stiff childhood cruelties as I watched Ranbir Kapoor\u2019s overgrown Jagga, the unlikely detective-hero of <\/p>Jagga Jasoos<\/em>. Jagga also suffers from a stuttering problem \u2013 but unlike Babai, he is neither relegated to the background of an adventure he wants to headline, nor treated as a punchline in typical Bollywood tradition.\n\nIn a refreshing departure for mainstream Hindi cinema, Jagga\u2019s debilitating speech defect isn\u2019t an object of pity. In the first half of the madcap musical, the little orphan is egged on by a mysterious patient (Saswata Chatterjee who later becomes his foster father) in his Manipur hospital to sing out his thoughts. Jagga, who until then has rarely uttered a word, is ecstatic at finding that he doesn\u2019t falter. It\u2019s a delightfully heartwarming scene that sets the tone for the rest of the film, which understands and gives its lead enough time to coexist with his impairment, and communicate his expressions set to the tunes of his own liking.\n\n

The film not only manages to make its audience realise the unbearable arduousness of living with an impairment, but also takes its hero seriously.<\/blockquote>\n\nOver the course of the 160-minute film, Jagga graduates from a stuttering teenager detective \u2013 with several shades of Tintin and Harry Potter \u2013 whose words \u201cso so ke nikalte hai\u201d, to the film\u2019s stuttering hero in search of his missing father. That by itself is the film\u2019s greatest achievement. It not only manages to make its audience realise the unbearable arduousness of living with an impairment, but also takes its hero seriously. The stutter isn\u2019t merely a plot device, an ailment that gets cured once Jagga displays traditional hero behaviour. Instead, the pauses are allowed to linger, almost as if the film is goading him to get them out, in his own time.\n\nThe binary treatment of a disability in Bollywood has almost always verged between humiliation and pity. Scraping the bottom of the barrel here is Rohit Shetty\u2019s Golmaal<\/em> series. In the third installment of the unnecessary franchise, Shreyas Talpade\u2019s stutter is a device that\u2019s only <\/em>exploited for comic relief in the film. \u201cAbey jaldi bol, kal subah Panvel nikalna hai,\u201d a character tells him. For a country that has approximately 1.25 crore Indians who stammer, the film\u2019s demeaning usage of a disability to garner cheap laughs forced the Indian Stammering Association to file<\/a> a petition against its makers.\n\n\"Jagga\n
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In a refreshing departure for mainstream Hindi cinema, Jagga\u2019s debilitating speech defect isn\u2019t an object of pity.<\/p>\n

Image \/ Disney India<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nGolmaal 3 <\/em>was only following in the footsteps of Awaara Pagaal Deewana<\/em> and Phir Hera Pheri<\/em>, where two stuttering mobsters are constantly stuck in supposedly hilarious situations.\n\nOn the opposing side are films like Chalbaaz<\/em>, where Anju\u2019s stutter and nervousness render her a weak character. I also remember Pooja Bhatt as the meek, under-confident student in Sir<\/em>, who is given therapeutic advice by Naseeruddin Shah\u2019s character who tells her to \u201cnot be nervous\u201d and just talk.\n\nSure there was a Kaminey<\/em>, featuring two different speech impediments, which weren\u2019t caricaturised. But maybe Jagga Jasoos <\/em>is the film we need to mainstream conversation about \u201clesser\u201d speech impairments \u2013 just the way Taare Zameen Par <\/em>was able to do for dyslexia. It\u2019s a trend Bollywood could really get behind.\n\nNow, an impressionable young man, Babai rarely finds himself stammering anymore. I\u2019m certain he will watch Jagga Jasoos <\/em>with a bittersweet twinge, knowing that cinema could permit him to be a hero when his own cousins didn\u2019t.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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