Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Year: 1983
Director: Kundan Shah
Producer: National Film Development Corporation
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah, Bhakti Barve, Neena Gupta
Music: Vanraj Bhatia
This is the satirical story of Vinod Chopra and Sudhir Mishra. Don?t mistake them for popular filmmakers, these are characters played by Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Baswani in Kundan Shah's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro. FYI both Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Sudhir Mishra were assistant directors on the film. JBDY is epic because it has the best parody of Mahabhartha to date. This modest NFDC production was the learning ground for future actors like Pankaj Kapur, Satish Kaushik, Satish Shah, Neena Gupta, Deepak Qazir and Rajesh Puri. This is one of the best comedies made in India because it mixed a preposterously funny script with prevalent themes of corruption and unemployment. Social ridicule was never this fun.
DID YOU KNOW?
It was made on such a shoestring budget that Nasseruddin Shah, the most well known actor was paid only Rs 15,000. 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 got stolen.