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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Name: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1983-08-12
Duration: 132 min
Rating: 7.1

★ 7,1 /10 (70 Votes)

1983 HI 132 min

Overview

Two zanies open a photography studio. They score a partnership with a gossip magazine that suddenly thrusts them into a world of corruption, murder, and hijinks.

Release date

12/08/1983

Votes

Popularity

1.1

hum honge kamyab ek din

Genres

Comedy Crime

Status

Released

Original title

जाने भी दो यारों

Language

Runtime

132 min

Budget

$14,000

Naseeruddin Shah

Vinod Chopra

Ravi Baswani

Sudhir Mishra

Bhakti Barve

Shobha Sen

Satish Shah

D'Mello

Om Puri

Ahuja

Satish Kaushik

Ashok Nambudaripad

Pankaj Kapur

Tarneja

Deepak Qazir

Commissioner Shrivastav

No photo

Rajesh Puri

Kamdar

Neena Gupta

Priya

Ajay Wadhavkar

Police Constable

No photo

Zafar Sanjari

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Dushasana

Dilip Joshi

Kishore Nandlaskar

Inspector Dubey

Ashok Banthia

News Correspondent

Uday Chandra

Harshad Gandhi

Jaspal Sandhu

Anil Chowdhary

Arun Khanna

Adil Rana

Hanif Zahoor

Pramod A Dubey

Alok Aima

Anil Apte

Bharat Karia

Keni Desai

Kiran Bokhri

Rahul Chowdhary

Amit Tyagi

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# Film Title: *Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro* (1983) **Director:** Kundan Shah (The Slapstick Populist) **Core Performance Metrics:** Om Puri (Clumsy Punjabi Caricature), Naseeruddin Shah (Slightly Restrained) **Thematic Axis:** The Misguided Satire / Overwritten Cacophony **Visual / Structural Trait Markers:** On-Location Bombay Screaming, The Blasphemous Ramayana Stage Play, Broken Bridge Corruption Plot **Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** Kundan Shah’s *Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro* (1983) stands as an infernal punishment rather than cinematic art—a loud, frantic, and excruciating 140-minute …

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