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.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, Who Pays the Piper, Let It Go, Mates
IndiaU India 
"We as a nation are permanently stuck in the climax of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro"
~ Varun Grover
"Draupadi cheer haran ho raha hai, aur tum log... tamasha dekh rahe ho!"
This scene alone deserves five stars. A Mahabharat play, a dead body, actors panicking, audience clapping. Total chaos and totally iconic. One of the funniest scenes ever put on screen.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is silly, sharp, and somehow still says so much. Decades later, it’s still frighteningly relevant. Corruption, drama, and friendship all packed into a comedy that never gets old. Still a banger after all these years.
You know what to do. Just eat some cake and throw some cake.
Just to think that it started off as a film of two guys opening a not very successful photograph store. It went a really long way for sure. It was extremely funny, and with great cinematography (something I was not expecting at all). Those scenes during the play were just marvelous.
In an interview on the extra features of the Jaane Bhi Do Yoaro DVD, Kundan Shah labels the film 'hungry cinema' because, he says, most of the people who were making it 'were hungry'. The film was made under dire circumstances - in an interview Naseeruddin Shah called it 'the most nightmarish shoot of my life'. There was little money. The locations were rough. Invariably, Naseeruddin said, the 12-hour shifts were extended into 24.
But this madness wrought a film that remains one of the best satires made in this country. Kundan and his co-writers Sudhir Mishra, Ranjit Kapoor, Satish Kaushik - blended many strains of comedy into a farcical theatre of the absurd. The climactic Mahabharat scene, in which…
I lost it when akbar walked in, man that mahabharat scene would lead to riots today !
🎶हम होंगे कंगाल, हम होंगे कंगाल, हम होंगे कंगाल, एक दिन|🎶
so this was the og brainrot back then, and the rest of them are just cheap knockoffs
d'mello in the second half of the film is like the current state of our country
How does a film so absurd and comical manage to capture the grim realities of our nation? Perhaps it’s because the real joke is on us. I fear no amount of hum honge kamiyab optimism can pull us out of this mess.
The film’s brilliance truly shines in its closing scene, where the reality of corruption hits hardest. It’s the perfect blend of dark satire and black comedy, a fun watch with an ending that perfectly encapsulates the struggle of the common man trying to survive in a broken system and shockingly, it feels even more relevant in today’s world.
the only kind of drunk i want to be is drunk om puri thinking that the coffin is a car and trying to change its wheel 👍👍👍
A barrage of kicks in the balls of common men masquerading as laugh out loud comedy. Two men dreaming of making it in the city find themselves smack dab in the middle of a conspiracy involving corruption, corruption, more corruption, and a sprinkle of murder. Everyone else is out to get either a piece of the pie or the whole pie, completely unbothered with all the people they're trampling on to get what they want. The country revolves around a handful of people securing large contracts while their symbols of urbanisation collapse – but that never stopped them before, and it never will. It's always us who get our throats slit.
"Draupadi teri akele ki nahi hai...hum sab shareholder hai!"
A Timeless Satire on Systemic Corruption.
