Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (transl. Let It Go, Mates) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language satirical black comedy film directed by Kundan Shah and produced by the NFDC. It is a dark satire on the rampant corruption in Indian politics, bureaucracy, news media, and business. The film stars an ensemble cast including Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah, Satish Kaushik, Bhakti Barve and Neena Gupta. Vidhu Vinod Chopra was in the cast playing the cameo of Dushasana in the famous staging of the Mahabharata scene in the climax of the movie. He was also the production controller. Blow-Up, a 1966 English-language film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in which a photographer unwittingly takes photographs of the killing, was an inspiration for a part of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro. The production managers were Deepak Qazir, Imtiaz Bagdadi, Pavan Malhotra. Sudhir Mishra and Renu Saluja also figure as direction assistants. Kundan Shah won the 1984 Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of...

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