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Professional photographers Sudhir Mishra (Ravi Baswani) and Vinod Chopra (Naseeruddin Shah) open a photo 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, Shobha Sen (Bhakti Barve), on a story exposing the dealings between an unscrupulous builder, Tarneja (Pankaj Kapoor), and corrupt Municipal Commissioner D'Mello (Satish Shah). During their investigation, they find out that another builder Ahuja (Om Puri) too is involved in this dealing.
While working on their story, Sudhir and Vinod decide to enter a photography contest that carries a prize money of Rs.5000/-, and take a number of photographs all over the city. On developing their pictures, in one of the photographs they see a man shooting someone. Upon enlarging it, they realize that the killer is none other than Tarneja. They immediately return to the park where they had shot that picture and realize that the body is lying behind the bushes. Before the duo get to the body, it disappears, but they manage to retrieve one of a pair of gold cuff links. Sometime later, they attend the inauguration of a bridge dedicated to the memory of late Municipal Commissioner D'Mello who is supposed to have died of a terminal disease. It is there that they discover the other cuff link. They return at night and dig up that area and unearth a coffin containing the dead body of D'Mello.
A shot from the Draupadi Cheer-Haran scene
The duo 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, Ahuja who had, in an inebriated condition, carried the coffin tied to his car to his farm house. They provide this information to Shobha, who in turn starts blackmailing Tarneja. He invites her 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 henchmen, and the trio escape from the scene. Later, the duo realize that Shobha and Ahuja are up to no good, and so they take the corpse, and wheel it with them, but not before Tarneja, Ahuja, the new Municipal Commissioner Srivastav (Deepak Qazir), Shobha and others also get involved, resulting in a series of comic mix-ups including one with some burkha-clad women.
The climax is set upon a stage dramatization of the Mahabharata, particularly the enactment of the Draupadi Cheer-Haran episode, which is turned on its head with the duo and the group following them inserting themselves into the scene. The corpse plays Draupadi and the vile Duryodhana, who orders the disrobing in the original version, ends up pledging to save Draupadi's honor at any cost. To make things even more hilarious, a new act - that of the ill-fated romance of Salim and Anarkali - is introduced, with the corpse playing Anarkali.
Characters:
* Naseeruddin Shah as Vinod Chopra
* Ravi Baswani as Sudhir Mishra
* Bhakti Barve as Shobha Sen (Editor)
* Satish Shah as D'Mello (Municipal Commissioner)
* Om Puri as Ahuja
* Pankaj Kapoor as Tarneja
* Satish Kaushik as Ashok
* Neena Gupta as Priya
* Deepak Qazir as Srivastav (Assistant Municipal Commissioner)
* Rajesh Puri as Kamdar (Assistant Editor)
* Zafar Sanjari
* Vidhu Vinod Chopra as Dushasana
With Pangaa Na Lo, Om Puri and Satish Shah are doing a film together after Jaane Bho Do Yaaro (1983) - a rewind to the cult comedy that launched many careers.
Batches of talented students were coming out of Pune's Film and Television Institute, their heads brimming with ideas. Kundan Shah was one of them, and with him on his first film, were his friends from the Institute.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, like most films produced by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), was not an immediate success, because it did not get a wide release. But it launched many careers, and went on to head the list of the best comedies made in India.
Vinod Chopra (Naseeruddin Shah) and Sudhir Mishra (Ravi Vaswani) are two professional photographers trying to start a photo studio. They get their first proper assignment from the investigative magazine Khabardar, with Shobha (Bhakti Barve) as its editor.
In the course of their work, they discover that one of the biggest builders in Bombay, Tarneja (Pankaj Kapoor) is trying to bribe Municipal Commissioner D'Mello (Satish Shah) into giving him a contract for a flyover. D'Mello is also negotiating with Tarneja's arch rival Ahuja (Om Puri).
Quite by chance Vinod and Sudhir get a photo that shows that Tarneja has murdered D'Mello. The body goes missing, however, and it turns up at the drunken Ahuja's house. They locate the cadaver take pictures of it and take it with them in the hope of exposing Tarneja.
Between one comic incident and another, Vinod and Sudhir are on the run with the corpse, with Tarneja, Ahuja, the new Municipal Commissioner Srivastava (Deepak Qazir), Shobha and others in pursuit, resulting in a hilarious chase that ends up in a memorable climax at a Mahabharat nautanki performance, where the hapless corpse is dressed as Draupadi.
The film was a non-stop laugh riot, which also included an anti-corruption message. Nearly a quarter of a century later, it remains as fresh and as entertaining as ever.
You know those email forwards that begin with the line �You know you�re getting old when...� and go on to provide a long, sadistic list of proofs (e.g. �...when you enjoy hearing about other people�s surgical operations�)? Well, one item I would add to the list is �...when you hear about the 25th anniversary of a film that you can easily recall seeing during its initial run�.
Late 1983 carries many associations for me as a movie watcher. It was the year of Masoom and �Lakdi ki kaathi� and of Betaab, starring the fresh-faced Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh. Darth Vader attained redemption in Return of the Jedi and we acquired our first video player. Meanwhile audio cassettes continued to be bought at a speedy rate and a large part of my time was spent listening to such classic compositions as the �chooha billi� song from Sharaabi and �Ding Dong, baby sing a song� from Hero.
As ever, Amitabh was the centre of our lives. At the time his movie career had begun a slow descent but his political career was taking off, and there was an unfortunate mid-air collision in Inquilaab, a film that ended with a very heavy-handed scene where the Big B solves India�s problems by the simple expedient of locking all of the country�s corrupt politicians in one room and taking a machine-gun to them.
But there was another film made that year which dealt with the theme of corruption much more matter-of-factly and irreverently � treating it not as something that could be clinically isolated, tucked back into a little Pandora�s box and vaporised but as something that was deeply embedded in the fabric of our lives. Too deeply embedded, perhaps, to ever be successfully countered. But hey, we could always make the most of a bad situation by laughing at our collective predicament.
It was startling to realise that Kundan Shah�s breathless, madcap satire Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron � the story of two idealistic photographers, Vinod and Sudhir (Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Baswani), who get involved with corrupt builders, corrupt law enforcers and a corrupt magazine publisher � turned 25 this year. The print on the DVD I saw recently was faded and jerky (I doubt the original print has been properly preserved), and watching the film itself is like entering a time machine (the Fiats and Ambassadors on Bombay�s roads, the ancient telephones, the quaint production room of the magazine Khabardar), but in many vital ways JBDY is just as fresh as it was all those years ago. Watching the scene where a newly built flyover collapses because �the builder mixed cement into sand instead of mixing sand into cement�, I thought about Gurgaon�s potholed roads and the recent, thoroughly avoidable Metro accident. The more things change...
If you�re among those who only remember the film for its climactic Mahabharat skit, you should definitely watch it again. As it happens the movie itself plays like an amateur-troupe skit in places, and though this is probably a result of its very low budget, it perfectly fits the absurdist tone. This is a film that does away with irrelevancies such as credible scene setups and narrative logic, and instead cuts straight to the heart of an idea. Certain scenes, especially the ones where shady deals are being made, are shot in lengthy takes with the principals standing in a line and facing the camera, as if they know we're in on their conversation. The film winks at its audience from time to time, and there are playful meta-references: the use of �Albert Pinto ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai� (an earlier Naseeruddin Shah-starrer) as a code-word; the sign that says �Antonioni Park� (the setting for a scene that is borrowed from Michelangelo Antonioni�s Blow Up). It�s best watched as a series of lunatic episodes placed end to end.
And what lunatic episodes! No matter how many times you see it, you can�t help shaking your head at the more inexplicable touches, such as the builder Tarneja (Pankaj Kapoor) briefly interrupting a monologue to spray perfume under the armpits of the foreman he has been talking to. Or the straight-faced announcement that the city�s gutters will be closed for a day to commemorate the death of a visionary whose last word was...�gutter�. The time bomb that explodes exactly half an hour late (a reference to �Indian standard time�?). And the scene where a hallway is shown to be so well protected that even a trespassing rat is shot dead. (Of course, the intrepid photographers not only make it past this level of security regardless but also � in one of the film�s most brilliantly illogical scenes � hide behind sofas in a tiny room to take photographs of the people they are spying on.)
What amazes me most about Jaane bhi do Yaaron is how much it managed to get away with. As if its cheerful chronicling of dishonesty in high and low places (and taking that dishonesty for granted and turning it into a joke rather than making speeches about it) wasn't controversial enough, there's also the bawdy lack of respect for such holy cows as dead bodies and mythological epics. I also wonder if today�s censors would have allowed the scene where Commissioner D�Mello�s burqa-clad corpse gets lost in a yard occupied by Muslim women and you can hear titters and squeals of �Allah!� coming from the startled crowd as Vinod and Sudhir break into their midst.
Most notably, there�s the deflating (but magnificently surreal) final scene, played out to the ironical strains of the patriotic song �Hum Honge Kaamyab�, where the photographers (who have, in a neat touch, themselves been �framed�) are shown dressed in prisoners� clothes but walking alongside a crowd of people near the Gateway of India. This is direct visual shorthand for the idea of the common man being in chains, and it superbly sums up the tone of the whole movie.
It was probably easier for the film to get away with all this because it was a comedy � a loud, �unrealistic� slapstick comedy at that � and could therefore be seen as unthreatening, �merely good for a laugh�. But like all great satires Jaane bhi Do Yaaron deserves to be taken very seriously indeed, and despite its occasional college-production feel, it has aged much better than most other movies of its time.
Directed by
Kundan Shah
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Ranjit Kapoor dialogue
Satish Kaushik dialogue
Sudhir Mishra screenplay
Sudhir Mishra story
Kundan Shah screenplay
Kundan Shah story
Cast (in credits order)
Naseeruddin Shah ... Vinod Chopra
Ravi Baswani ... Sudhir Mishra
Satish Shah ... Municipal Commissioner D'Mello
Om Puri ... Ahuja
Pankaj Kapur ... Tarneja
Satish Kaushik ... Ashok
Neena Gupta ... Priya
Deepak Qazir ... Asst. Mun. Comm. Srivastav
Rajesh Puri ... Kamdar
Zafar Sanjari
Uday Chandra
Harshad Gandhi
Jaspal Sandhu
Anil Chaudhary (as Anil Chowdhury)
Ajay Wadhavkar (as Ajay Vadhaokar)
Arun Khanna
Adil Rana
Haneef Zahoor (as Hanif Zahoor)
Pramod A. Dubey (as Pramod Dube)
Kenny Desai (as Keni Desai)
Alok Aima
Ashok Banthia
Anwar
Kiran Bokhri
Anil Apte
Rahul Chowdhary
Bharat Karia
Amit Tyagi
Vidhu Vinod Chopra ... Dushasana
Bhakti Barve ... Shobha Singh
Anupam Kher ... 'Disco-Killer' (scenes deleted)
Sudhir Mishra ... Reporter (uncredited) |
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