"Horse's egg, suicide!" objects the teenage sleuth in Anurag Basu's Jagga Jasoos, a film dreamt up in Bangla and only half-translated out of it. An observant schoolchild fond of spotting bends in the narrative, he reunites old men with long-forgotten tabletop graffiti and solves murder cases mistakenly termed suicide. Raised on a diet of Sherlock, Hitchcock, Feluda, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Chaplin - names pointed to him via couriered videotape from a mysterious travelling father - he is a boy with a knack for seeing the wood before he examines the trees. Jagga, a bespectacled knee-high stammerer, is just such a child. To believe, most importantly, in stories. By this I mean not a desire to canoodle but the intense need to believe - in secrets, in adventures, in the inexplicable. Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Saswata Chatterjee, Sayani Gupta
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