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Ranked #16 of 100
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
जाने भी दो यारो · 1983
Two photographers stumble on a builder-politician murder and end up hiding a corpse inside a live Mahabharata stage show.
- Director
- Kundan Shah
- Year
- 1983
- Genre
- Comedy · Satire
- Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah
Why it's at number 16
The Draupadi cheer-haran climax is the most audacious sequence in Indian comedy. Nothing has topped it.
Two photographers stumble on a builder-politician murder and end up hiding a corpse inside a live Mahabharata stage show.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro sits in the 1980s alongside Umrao Jaan and Ardh Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Kundan Shah — also responsible for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa.
- Released in 1983, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Satire.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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