JAANE BHI DO YAARO

Director: Kudan Shah

Language: Hindi

Courtesy: My local DVD store back home

My Rating: @ @ @ @ @ (+ many more)

Synopsis: Being an Indian if you have not watched this movie, shame on you. LMAO.... ROFL..;-P is all I have to say about the synopsis of this movie.

OK, so Vinod Chopra and Sudhir Mishra are two professional photographers trying to start a photo studio. They get their first proper assignment from the investigative magazine Khabardar, with Shobhaji as its editor. In the course of their work, they discover that one of the biggest builders in Bombay, Tarneja, is trying to bribe Municipal Commissioner D'Mello, into giving him a contract for a flyover. D'Mello is also negotiating with Tarneja's arch rival Ahuja. Quite by chance Vinod and Sudhir get a photo that shows that Tarneja has murdered D'Mello. The body goes missing, however, and it turns up at the drunken Ahuja's house. They locate the corpse, take pictures of it, and take it with them in the hope of exposing Tarneja. Between one comic incident and another, Vinod and Sudhir are on the run with the corpse, with Tarneja, Ahuja, the new Municipal Commissioner Srivastava, Shobhaji and others in pursuit, resulting in a hilarious chase that ends up in a memorable climax at a Mahabharat nautanki (play) performance, where the hapless corpse is dressed as Draupadi.

The film is a a non-stop riot of laughter, which also includes an anti-corruption message. I have lost count of how many times I have seen this movie. Even today, 27 years after its release, it remains as fresh and as entertaining as ever. A Classic