Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
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Star Cast
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- Ravi Baswani, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur,
Om Puri, Bhakti Barve, Satish Shah, Neena Gupta, Satish Kaushik, Ashok
Banthia
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Director
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Kundan Shah
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Producer
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NFDC (National Film Development Corporation)
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Rating
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U
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Year of Release
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1983
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Category
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Bollywood
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Genre
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Comedy
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Movie
Gist
The movie
is an absolute delight. It is basically a satire on the abundant corruption
going on in Indian politics, news media & business and bureaucracy. The
movie revolves around 2 young, naive, enthusiastic & idealistic photographers –
Vinod Chopra (Naseeruddin Shah) & Sudhir Mishra (Ravi Baswani) who run into
a cackle of crooks.
Vinod
& Sudhir start up a photo studio at Haji Ali, Mumbai. They arrange for an
inauguration ceremony & order ladoos, gulab jamuns, samosas & beer
bottles for the same. They keepy announcing publicly – Is sheher ke sabse
beautiful Beauty Studio ke 50% maalik Vinod aur Sudhir aap sab ka swagat karte
hai. Ut their happiness is short lived. The appealing table full of eateries is
vandalized ruthlessly. But nothing shakes the spirit of Sudhir & Vinod.
Soon
after the disastrous beginning of their work, Sudhir & Vinod manage to get
some work from the shrewd & hypocritic editor of Khabardar – Shobha Sen
(Bhakti Barve). Khabardar is a publication house that exposes the scandalous &
entangled lives of the famous & rich people. 
The duo start working on their
first project of exposing the deals between the unprincipled builder Tarneja
(Pankaj Kapur) & the corrupt Municipal Commissioner D’Mello (Satish Shah). During investigation, the duo finds out that there is yet another angle to this
scandal; another builder Ahuja (Om Puri) is also involved in the deal. Tarneja
& his siders -Priya (Neena Gupta) & Ashok (Satish Kaushik), bribe D’Mello
with estate, cash & a Swiss chocolate cake to get the tender of building a
flyover passed. This leads to the unforgettable moment of “Thoda Khao, Thoda Feko”.
The duo start working on their
first project of exposing the deals between the unprincipled builder Tarneja
(Pankaj Kapur) & the corrupt Municipal Commissioner D’Mello (Satish Shah). During investigation, the duo finds out that there is yet another angle to this
scandal; another builder Ahuja (Om Puri) is also involved in the deal. Tarneja
& his siders -Priya (Neena Gupta) & Ashok (Satish Kaushik), bribe D’Mello
with estate, cash & a Swiss chocolate cake to get the tender of building a
flyover passed. This leads to the unforgettable moment of “Thoda Khao, Thoda Feko”. 
The other candidate
competing for D’Mello’s favors is Ahuja. He baits D’Mello with more money; D’Mello
agrees to it. Tarneja learns of D’Mello’s deceit & knocks him off.
Meanwhile,
Vinod & Sudhir decide to participate in a photography contest which has the
prize money of Rs.5000. They set off on their journey all over the city to click
photographs. When the duo develop the snaps, they come across a photo that shows a man shooting
someone. Much to their surprise, the killer is Tarneja.
They immediately run to
the murder site & find the body behind the bushes. The body suddenly
disappears. The duo somehow retrieve the body & click number of pictures of
the corpse, with a hope to expose Tarneja.
Later, the
duo realize that Tarneja, Ahuja, Shobha & the Assistant Municipal
Commissioner, Shrivasta (Deepak Qazir) are upto no good. Everyone gets confused
in a series of comic mix-ups including the scene of the stage dramatisation of Mahabharat
which later on turns into Mughal-e-Azam. This makes things more hilarious.
In the end,
Sudhir & Vinod hand over the proofs to the police & Tarneja is about to
get arrested when Shrivastav interferes to talk to the police for a while. In the
mean time, Tarneja threatens Ahuja & Shobha to expose them if he gets
arrested. Shrivastava manages to put the blame of D’Mello’s murder & the
collapse of the flyoveron Sudhir & Vinod.
The movie
as whole focuses on the irony of how corruption has engulfed the country. Although
the movie does not have happy ending but leaves a smile on our face. A must
watch!
