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Who Pays the Piper

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

India

1983

143 Min
Color
Hindi
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DIR Kundan Shah

SCR Sudhir Mishra, Ranjit Kapoor, Kundan Shah, Satish Kaushik

DP Binod Pradhan

CAST Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Bhakti Barve, Satish Shah, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Kaushik, Neena Gupta

ED Renu Saluja

MUSIC Vanraj Bhatia

Synopsis

Vinod (Naseeruddin Shah) and Sudhir (Ravi Vaswani) are two professional photographers trying to start a photo studio. The first real assignment that they get, from the activist magazine Khabardar, draws them into the shady world of Bombay real estate. They discover that one of the biggest builders in Bombay, Tarneja, is trying to bribe Municipal Commissioner D’Mello (Satish Shah) into giving him a bridge contract. Meanwhile D’Mello is negotiating with Tarneja’s arch rival Ahuja (Om Puri). The contract is finally awarded to a third person. By chance Vinod and Sudhir find out that Tarneja has murdered D’Mello… —IMDb

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saptarshi

5Jan12

I love this movie but it's basically equal parts Blow Up and Weekend at Bernie's. With a little desi social commentary thrown in.

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    saptarshi

    10Feb12

    update: i recently discovered that this movie actually PRECEDED weekend at bernie's! props to kundan shah. curry for all! http://sandeepbahlspassion4film.blogspot.com/2010/06/weekend-at-bernies-1989-comedy.html

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Sudipto Basu

4Jul11

"He lived for gutters, and died for gutters. His parting word to the world was... gutter!"

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