Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

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8.3/10

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Ravi Baswani, Bhakti Barve, Neena Gupta, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Kaushik, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, and Satish Shah in Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)

Two friends, attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings, corruption and murder, and must fight to bring the guilty to light.

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Dark Comedy Satire Comedy Crime Drama

Two photographers, who are employed by a magazine editor to expose the scandalous activities of the rich, come across corruption by a builder and accidentally photograph a murder.Two photographers, who are employed by a magazine editor to expose the scandalous activities of the rich, come across corruption by a builder and accidentally photograph a murder.Two photographers, who are employed by a magazine editor to expose the scandalous activities of the rich, come across corruption by a builder and accidentally photograph a murder.

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IMDb RATING

8.3/10

15K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations

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Trivia
The film was made on such a shoestring budget that Naseeruddin Shah, the most well known actor was paid only Rs 15,000 ($300) for the movie. Naseer also had to bring his own Nikon camera to the shootings to use as a prop for his character, who was a photographer. Towards the end of the shooting, this camera was stolen, which amongst other painful memories of the making of the film, Naseer still reminisces about.

Goofs
When D'Mello's dead body was found under the bridge the eyes were closed. However, when they recover the body again from Ahuja's guest house, the eyes were open. This can't be possible.

Quotes
Ashok: You didn't listen to our conversation, did you?
Vinod Chopra: What?
Ashok: You didn't listen to our conversation, right?
Vinod Chopra: What?
Ashok: Are you deaf?
Vinod Chopra: Yes!

Connections
Referenced in Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (1986)

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10/10

masterpiece

Quite apart from its social satire, unimaginably ahead of its time for the dour early '80's Delhi, JBDY managed to bring together a slew of talent, Shah(s), Baswani, Kapoor, and of course the inimitable Puri 'Ahuja'. Folks over at NFDC still take the movie apart frame by frame, deconstructing its topical references and attempt to interpolate a social conscience to it. More than its concluding 'Draupadi vastraharan' scene, symbolic of the wretched disrobing of the Indian polity however, the film managed to make me cry out loud with laughter even as an impressionable twelve year old, merely for its slapstick content. This is a movie which gets better with every viewing, and reveals slick, symbolic and subversive undertones worthy of Kundan Shah's maverick vision.