Jagga Jasoos is about a detective searching for his adopted father!! The mysteries Jagga solves may seem kind of familiar if you've seen Monk?, like there's three mysteries highlighted, and the two mysteries comprising the first half of the film are both from the first season of Monk for some reason. Not sure the degree of probability of coincidence. It is a magical film, anyway. Every aspect of every frame of the movie is sheer magic, and I don't know how.
If I enjoyed Jagga Jasoos for how stylized it is, I enjoyed Toilet- Ek Prem Katha for the opposite reason, how utterly naturalistic everything is. It's about a wife discovering that in her new village the women have to "go" outside!!
The acting is very powerful. The cinematography is great as well. Night scenes are kind of weird because you can occasionally tell that the character was brightened from the background a bit, like they're lighter there but the contrast is lower, but it's actually a kinda neat look so I'm not complaining, think I'll use it deliberately somewhere somehow. I'm not sure you'd understand many of the references at all if you're not well-versed in Indian culture, but the intergenerational political struggle at the heart of the story is universal.
Toilet- Ek Prem Katha ends kinda suddenly. I mean, all the narrative threads are tied up satisfactorily and everything, but after that, it just... ends. There's a brief card informing us the real-life inspiration for the fictional events, and then the credits. There's no musical sequence for a solid like 45 minutes before the ending, so between the two I get the feeling that there was meant to be a grand finale musical sequence, but for one reason or another it was dropped. It's still a good film, but if it had one final punch there at the end, one emotional denouement such as a song and dance number, it would be a great film.
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