Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron

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Jul 10, 2012, 4:51:22 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron'''
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+aka Who Pays the Piper
+1983 143’(130’) col Hindi
+d/s Kundan Shah pc NFDC co-s Sudhir Mishra
+dial Ranjit Kapoor, Satish Kaushik c Binod
+Pradhan m Vanraj Bhatia
+lp Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Bhakti
+Bharve, Om Puri, Satish Shah, Pankaj Kapoor,
+Satish Kaushik, Neena Gupta, Deepak Qazir,
+Rajesh Puri, Zafar Sanjari, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
+Extraordinary slapstick comedy, a genre almost
+unknown in Indian cinema since Kishore
+Kumar’s early films. Two bumbling
+photographers, Vinod Chopra (N. Shah) and
+Sudhir Mishra (Baswani), are employed by
+Shobha (Bharve), the editor of a scandal sheet,
+Khabardar. They have to spy on millionaire
+property developer Tarneja (Kapoor) and
+police commissioner D’Mello (S. Shah). The
+photographers uncover dirty business between
+Tarneja and his equally unsavoury rival Ahuja
+(O. Puri). The commissioner is killed by one of
+the builders who, as a result, wins the contract
+to build a flyover that collapses shortly
+afterwards. The photographers get hold of
+D’Mello’s corpse in order to prove that he was
+murdered, but they lose it, which gives rise to
+an extended sequence where everyone chases
+everyone else. In the end, the photographers
+are framed for the collapse of the fly-over. The
+film, set in the same early 80s of e.g. Anand
+Patwardhan’s documentary Hamara Shaher
+(1985), refers directly to specific corrupt
+Bombay politicians of the period. The collapse
+of the flyover, shown in a video clip in the film,
+is in fact footage of the actual Byculla Bridge in
+Bombay which collapsed shortly before the
+film was made. Commissioner D’Mello refers to
+the then police chief Julio Ribeiro (who
+appears in the Advertising Club meeting in
+Patwardhan’s documentary), Tarneja and Ahuja
+are a composite picture of Bombay’s biggest
+builder Raheja, while the Shobha who runs a
+scandal sheet is an allusion to Shobha
+Kilachand, aka Shobha De, former editor of a
+film gossip and city magazine. In addition, the
+film repeatedly refers to e.g. Antonioni’s Blow
+Up (1966) and to New Indian Cinema,
+including some of Shah’s former FTII
+colleagues: film-makers Vinod Chopra (on
+whose Sazaaye Maut, 1981, Shah had been a
+production manager) and Sudhir Mishra, who
+lend their names to the photographer duo. The
+Albert Pinto code-word of the two amateur
+sleuths refers to Saeed Mirza’s film (1980).
+Large posters of Kumar Shahani’s Maya
+Darpan (1972) and Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti
+(1969) can be seen pasted on the walls during
+the chase. The film was a mild commercial
+success and influenced mainly a brand of TV
+comedy (cf. Shah’s TV series Yeh Jo Hai
+Zindagi, 1985, and one he made together with
+Mirza, Nukkad, 1987).
+
+[[Film]]