Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Image:Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro 1983 film poster.jpg
Film poster
Directed by Kundan Shah
Written by Sudhir Mishra &
Kundan Shah (Story & Screenplay
Ranjit Kapoor &
Satish Kaushik (Dialogue)
Starring Naseeruddin Shah
Ravi Baswani
Om Puri
Satish Kaushik
Music by Vanraj Bhatia
Cinematography Binod Pradhan
Editing by Renu Saluja
Release date(s) 12 August 1983
Running time 110 min.
Language Hindi
IMDb profile
This article is about the 1983 film. For the 2007 film with a similar title, see Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (2007 film)

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Devnagari: जाने भी दो यारों) is a 1983 Indian comedy film directed by Kundan Shah and produced by NFDC [1]. The movie is a dark satirical comedy about the rampant corruption in the Indian political system, press and business.

The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Satish Shah, Pankaj Kapoor, Bhakti Barve, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Neena Gupta, Satish Kaushik, Deepak Qazir,and Om Puri.

The film won Kundan Shah, the 1984 Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director. 'Indiatimes Movies' ranks the movie amongst the 'Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films' [2].

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[edit] Synopsis

Professional photographers Sudhir Mishra and Vinod Chopra open a studio in the prestigious Haji Ali area, and hope to make enough money to keep it running. After a disastrous start, they are given some work by the editor of "Khabardar", a publication that exposes the scandalous lives of the rich and the famous. They accept it and start working with the editor herself, Shobha Singh. They also decide to enter their name in a contest to win Rs.5000/- and take a number of photographs all over the city. In one of the photographs they see a man with a gun. Upon enlarging it, they find out that the killer is none other than builder Tarneja.

Upon further investigation they find out that he has killed Municipal Commissioner D'Mello and left his body behind some bushes. Before the duo could get to the body, it disappears. Disappointed the hapless duo continue working with Shobha. They locate it and take a number of photographs of the corpse, and wheel it with them with the hopes of exposing Tarneja. Suddenly the body disappears. Later they find out that the body is with Tarneja's rival builder, Ahuja who had accidentally carries the coffin tied to his car and shift it to his farm house. They provide this information to Shobha, who in turn starts to blackmail Tarneja for a ransom amount. He invites Shobha and her associates to crack a deal and plants a bomb to kill them.

Unfortunately the bomb explodes right in the face of Tarneja and his employees and the trio escape from the scene. Then the duo take the corpse, and wheel it with them, but not before Tarneja, Ahuja, the new Mun. Comm. Srivastava, Shobha and others also get involved - resulting in a comic mix-up with burkha-clad woman.

The climax is set upon a stage dramatization of Mahabharat, which hilariously turns into the ill-fated romance of Salim and Anarkali - with the corpse taking the part of Draupadi and Anarkali, and the vile Duryodan pledging to save Drupadi's honor at any cost! What will be the fate of the corpse and our hapless heroes must be seen to be believed!

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[edit] Production information

The film had a budget of 7 lakh rupees (Rs 700,000) [3]It was not immediately successful when released, but was eventually regarded as a cult classic.

[edit] Trivia

  • The climax of the movie, involving use of the dead commissioner's body as a prop to get back at the commissioner's killers, influenced the main plot of the 1989 Hollywood movie Weekend at Bernie's
  • The title was translated into English as Who Pays the Piper or (more literally) Let it be, buddies.
  • The names of the two lead characters played by Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Baswani are references to the names of the production controller, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and the assistant director, Sudhir Mishra, both of whom went on to become well-known Hindi movie directors
  • Bhakti Barve's character, a self-serving editor of a salacious magazine, is named Shobha Singh - a reference to journalist and author Shobhaa De

[edit] Awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ NFDC page
  2. ^ 25 Must See Bollywood Movies
  3. ^ trivia at imdb

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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Films directed by Kundan Shah
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro  (1983) • Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa  (1993) • Kya Kehna  (2000) • Hum To Mohabbat Karega  (2000) • Dil Hai Tumhara  (2002) • Ek Se Badhkar Ek  (2004) •
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