One of the best comedy movies of Bollywood, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro was screened on Tuesday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The movie was screened marking the first day of a three-day film fest, organised in the memory of renowned film maker Kundan Shah.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is a 1983 Hindi comedy film directed by Kundan Shah and produced by NFDC. It is a dark satire on the rampant corruption in Indian politics, bureaucracy, news media and business, and stars an ensemble cast including Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah, Satish Kaushik, Bhakti Barve and Neena Gupta.
This is the story of two friends, Vinod and Sudhir attempting to start-up their own photo studio. Business is very slow, but prospects look good when they are approached by Shobha editor of Khabardaar newspaper.
Shobha, feeding the simple-minded duo a spiel about righteousness and honesty, assigns them the job of spying and photographing the shady dealings between Police commissioner D’Mello and property builder Tarneja. The two, on assignment come across corruption and bribery to win the tender for building a flyover.
While spying on the nefarious three, Sudhir and Vinod get a whiff of a murder, but do not know who the killer is. They manage to retrieve the corpse as proof, but subsequently lose it. What follows is a long extended chase with the bad guys and the good guys chasing the corpse.
Kundan Shah won the 1984 Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director for his work.