Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

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Movie
Original title Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
जाने भी दो यारों
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 1983
length 132 minutes
Rod
Director Kundan Shah
script Kundan Shah , Sudhir Mishra
production National Film Development Corporation
music Vanraj Bhatia
camera Binod Pradhan
cut Renu Saluja
occupation

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro ( Hindi : जाने भी दो यारों , jāne bhī do yāroṃ ) is an Indian film satire by Kundan Shah from 1983. The slapstick comedy style film has the ubiquitous corruption in Indian politics, administration and business and media on the subject.

action

The talented photographers Vinod Chopra and Sudhir Mishra open their own photo studio in Bombay . However, they are sabotaged by a competitor so no one comes to the opening ceremony and they don't have a single customer for three months. They get their first assignment unexpectedly from Shobha Sen, the editor of a disclosure magazine about the life of the rich and famous. They are supposed to document the dealings between the unscrupulous building contractor Tarneja and the corrupt municipal commissioner (“municipal commissioner”) D'Mello. In the process, they find out that Tarneja's competitor Ahuja is also vying for D'Mello's favor in a kind of bribery competition for the bid.

In addition to their work for Shobha, Vinod and Sudhir are also shooting for an ORWO photo competition. In a picture, after enlarging the reflection, they discover how Tarneja is shooting a man. When both of them come back to the location of the photo in "Antonioni Park" one night, they find the body behind a bush. After their initial shock, they run away and when they return to the place where they were found they find that the corpse is no longer there. All you can find is a cufflink.

Some time later, Vinod and Sudhir attend the inauguration of a bridge built by Tarneja, which is dedicated to the late D'Mello, who is honored in a speech by his successor Srivastav. Sudhir finds a cufflink on the bridge that turns out to be the opposite of the one found in the park. For the photographers, D'Mello's disappearance is related to the construction of the bridge, which D'Mello had actually promised the constantly drunk Ahuja after a double bribe by both construction competitors. During the night, Vinod and Sudhir dig up a coffin at the bridge that contains the dead D'Mello and take some photos to expose Tarneja's machinations. Unnoticed by them, the coffin with the corpse rolls away and is discovered by chance by the drunk Ahuja, who befriends the dead man and invites him to his guest house and takes him with him.

The next day, the bridge built with the cheapest material collapsed. Shobha is informed about the murder of D'Mello by her photographers and, under the influence of all the new information, her ambition to reveal changes to the horror of Vinod and Sudhir into a plan to blackmail Tarneja. At the agreed meeting in Tarneja's house, a bomb built by his assistant Ashok explodes too late. The whereabouts of the corpse is known through the addition of ahuja. In the general confusion, everyone involved is chased around D'Mello's body. Vinod and Sudhir, who want to prove the murder of D'Mello, flee with the corpse to a theater in which a performance of a scene from the Mahabharata is being given - a well-known dice game scene in which the Pandava Yudhishthira all his possessions and finally the Princess Draupadi loses to the Kauravas .

Disguised as Draupadi, the dead D'Mello is the first to be dragged onto the stage in the scene in which Duhshasana - the second oldest of the Kaurava brothers - is supposed to reveal Draupadi. Little by little, the actual actors of the Mahabharata characters are replaced by the fighters over the corpse and the story of the revelation of Draupadi is turned into its opposite of concealing Draupadi to the amusement of the audience.

At the end, policemen appear, to whom Vinod and Sudhir present the evidence in order to obtain the arrest of Tarneja. But Tarneja, Ahuja, Shobha and Srivastav agree to hang the bridge collapse and the murder on the photographers. Srivastav has Vinod and Sudhir arrested by the police. In the final scene they both walk through Bombay in prison clothes.

background

In addition to the actors, numerous other graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India were involved in the film production: Sudhir Mishra and Renu Saluja stood by Kundan Shah as assistant directors. The dialogue authors were Ranjit Kapoor and Satish Kaushik . Vidhu Vinod Chopra played Kaurava Duhshasana in the Mahabharata scene and a critical interviewer from Tarnejas on the occasion of the inauguration of the bridge. The film was shot on the low budget of around 700,000 rupees .

Not only the names of the two main actors - Vinod Chopra and Sudhir Mishra - refer to the film participants of the same name, the other film characters also refer to real Bombay personalities from the 1980s. The images of the collapsed bridge are real shots of the Byculla Bridge in Bombay, which collapsed just before the film was made. The figure of D'Mello refers to the then police chief Julio Ribeiro, Tarneja and Ahuja are images of the Bautycoon Raheja and Shobha is a reference to Shobhaa De , the former editor of gossip magazines. In addition, the film, in which the recordings of the murder were made in the (fictional) "Antonioni Park", refers to Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up from 1966. The code word "Albert Pinto" in a conspiratorial telephone conversation between Vinod Chopra and Ashok Namboodiripad refers to the role of the same name played by Naseeruddin Shah in Saeed Akhtar Mirza's Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai (1980). Numerous New Indian Cinema posters can be seen in the background of the film, such as K. Balachander's Pyara Tarana (1982), Tanvir Ahmeds Chirutha (1980), Rabindra Dharmarajs Chakra (1981), Mani Kauls Uski Roti (1969), Kumar Shahanis Maya Darpan (1972), Muzaffar Alis Gaman (1978), Biplab Roy Choudhurys Shodh (1980) and others.

Awards

At the 1984 National Film Awards , director Kundan Shah received the Indira Gandhi Award for best directorial debut. Ravi Baswani received a Filmfare Award for best comedian for his role as Sudhir .

Reviews

Extraordinary slapstick comedy, a genre almost unknown in Indian film since the early films of Kishore Kumar .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ actual playing length of the NFDC -DVD with the incorrect specification "110 min"
  2. ↑ Review: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro: The Five-Star Classic
  3. ^ A b Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. , 1999, p. 460.