Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron Runtime : 143  Min. Type of Movie : Comedy Language : Hindi Release date : 12/08/1983 Rating :   DVD : Available         Newsvine Delicious Spurl MIXX More     Posted on 6/12/2008 5:03:04 AM  by  mojo For the life of me I can never keep things in place. For me the house, its walls and the shelves are on a constant move all the time. So much so, that they take along things otherwise so carefully placed on either of them every time they decide to move. Darn! It’s an excuse that got a smile to my mother’s face when I blurted it for the first time and saved me from being grounded. But the smile faded each time the reason (read excuse) was repeated. And this one time when I lost the family camera (never understood what that means) I was roared at and told to stay back while the family goes mall jumping and super hogging. Without a murmur I tiptoed back into my room, switched on the television and started watching Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. All thanks to my companions for the day stalwarts like Naseeruddin Shah as Vinod Chopra, Pankaj Kapoor as Tarneja, Satish Shah as D’Mello, Om Puri as Ahuja and Ravi Baswanias Sudhir Mishra my grounding could never have been more blessed. Professional photographers Sudhir Mishra and Vinod Chopra open a photo studio in the prestigious Haji Ali area hoping to make it big but at a point even dust seems expensive. From heavens above comes a blessing in the form of Shobha Sen (Bhakti Barve), the editor of ‘Khabardar’ who offers them work as photographers and help her expose lives of the rich and the famous. Together they work on exposing dealings between an unscrouplous dealer Tarneja, corrupt Municipal Commissioner D'Mello and a third party in the form of builder Ahuja. They decide to enter a photography contest and while they are developing a few pictures they have captured, they come across one which has Tarneja shooting someone. In lieu of juicy gossip they decide to take the risk and trail the dead body. Now begins the Tom and Jerry chase the Indian way. Their attempt to hide the body which is none other than D’Mello’s and the pursuit of it brings along humorous situations that create a laughing riot. And you are left feeling envious of the cast who must have had a superb time during the filming given the uncanny situations. The film best known for the draupadi Cheer-haran scene became historic and till date has found only a few equals. Kundan Shah delivers a masterpiece in this one and leaves one giggling long after the movie is over. But the movie is not just that, it has a dark underlying theme and attempts to hit under the belt. It is a dark satire on the rampant corruption in Indian politics, bureaucracy, news media and business. So enjoy it, laugh all the way to realization of the fact that we are so much a part of the dirt we despise and the situation we laugh at. Bookmark This Page| Email This Link       Naseeruddin Shah Ravi Baswani Satish Shah Om Puri Pankaj Kapur Satish Kaushik Neena Gupta Deepak Qazir Rajesh Puri     Director   : Kundan Shah Writer   : Sudhir Mishra : Ranjit Kapoor Music Composer   : Vanraj Bhatia Cinematographer   : Binod Pradhan Editor   : Renu Saluja Art Director   : Robin Das Costume Designer   : Sujata Desai   The names of the two lead characters played by 'Naseeruddin Shah' and 'Ravi Vaswani' 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. This Movie was made on such a shoestring budget that Nasseruddin 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! There is a reference by one of the lead characters early in the movie saying that they have borrowed money from Kundan Shah. Kundan Shah is the name of the director. Anita Kanwar dubbed for the character played by Bhakti Bharve. Anupam Kher was cast as a 'disco killer' in the film, a gangster who eliminated his victims while he danced. All his scenes were shot, but discarded from the final cut at the editing stage. he two lead characters in the movie are named after the two assistants in the movie, Sudhir Mishra and 'Vidhu Vidod Chopra' .   Filmfare Award(1985)             Name :     (Required)     Email :     Your email will not be published (Required)     Rate this Movie :     (Required)                                         View All Action Animation Biography Adventure Documentary Drama Family Musical Horror Romance SCI-FI War TV Mini-Series Short Sport Comedy Thriller		Hera Pheri 4 Chatur Singh... Wake Up Sid Three Idiots     View All