{"id":5206,"date":"2016-06-19T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:01:28","slug":"jaane-bhi-do-yaaro-kundan-shah-naseeruddin-shah-democracy-mahabharata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5206","title":{"rendered":"Kundan Shah\u2019s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is a Prophetic Film in a Post-Truth World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> \n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he first time I watched <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I was a 10. As is expected from a 10-year-old, my absolute favourite scenes in the movie were the most bizarre and the funniest, like the one where Pankaj Kapur and Satish Kaushik insist on looking under <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/om-puri-pakistan-indian-army-uri-pakistani-artists-fawad-khan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Om Puri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s \u201cwig\u201d to find \u201chidden\u201d photographs. And because I was a morbid soul even as a child, the misadventures of the dead body that are the highlight of the movie continued to be etched on my mind for a long time.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a kid, I obviously fixated on the funny and ignored the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/patrick-melrose-hotstar-premium-benedict-cumberbatch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dark<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> undertones. As an adult, weighed down by the knowledge of all the wrongs the movie is trying to address, every laugh it evokes is laden with some kind of a trauma, a sense of an abject helplessness that defines the landscape of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And that is the real brilliance of the film as an honest entertainer that cuts across ages. It refuses to be weighed down by its larger themes without compromising on them.<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is cynical, dark and distressing. It is also insanely funny. It is almost as if an Ayn Rand story met <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/20-years-of-biwi-no-1-david-dhawan-om-sai-ram\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Dhawan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is about as disturbing a dichotomy as it is effective. And in this particular case, hilarious.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made on a shoe-string budget of \u20b95 lakh by Kundan Shah, with a bunch of then mostly unknown <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/bollywood-struggler-lokhandwala-extras-actors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">actors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and team, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a rare artistic feat that transcends every pragmatic consideration and common sense. It is art at its purest, and the most subversive best. It is also art that reset the boundaries of how Indian cinema understood and defined absurdism, and the humour that came with it.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1565543178.jpg\" alt=\"jaane_bhi_do_yaaro_mahabharata\" width=\"570\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53212\" \/>\n\n<figcaption>\n<p>Whether it is the legendary, pop-culture favourite Mahabharata scene, or the missing body trope executed brilliantly, Jaane Bhi\u2019s set pieces are a lesson in comedy that does not rely on vulgarity, insult or any other cheap shortcut to induce laughter.<\/p>\n<p>National Film Development Corporation of India<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story of two <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/world-cup-wimbledon-croatia-anderson-underdog\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">underdogs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who get entangled in a larger, much more sinister conspiracy isn\u2019t exactly a unique story. Not anymore anyway. What sets <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> apart is the treatment, and the lens it uses to view this age-old tale of betrayal and corruption. A lens that is smudged with a morbid glee about the greed of a system that functions on the immorality of its participants.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Played brilliantly by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/naseeruddin-shah-anupam-kher-everything-that-is-wrong-in-being-just-a-tolerant-nation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naseeruddin Shah<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Ravi Vaswani, Vinod and Sudhir are outliers in a system that thrives entirely on blatant self-interest and horrifying corruption. Their naivety (which incidentally coincides with the value they attach to honesty and integrity) is played for laughs as effectively as it is used to highlight the systemic rot that has since become an essential evil woven in the fabric of our nation.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a lot of ways, the world of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is hopeless, brutal, where everybody is an accomplice. There are no heroes. Only victims and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/mumbai-pothole-death-traffic-rain-monsoon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">villains<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The builders and bureaucrats are usual suspects. But the real shock and awe lies in how the movie sets the media up as a conscientious hero, and orchestrates its horrifying, reprehensible fall from its supposed grace.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In context of the fake news, post-truth world that we live in, the gradual but deliberate spiral of the movie\u2019s supposed warrior of truth, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/radical-honesty-brad-blanton-challenge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">radical<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> media outlet called Khabardar led by a fiery editor (played by Bhakti Barve with all the vicious panache the role needed) seems prophetic. With the right price, motivation and timing, the fourth estate, or at least the keepers of it, could easily be bought and sold. It was true 36 years ago, and it is true now. Perhaps more than ever.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> refuses to sugarcoat the world it wants us to see. Even back in \u201983, when the media had not succumbed to propaganda and populism so blatantly, when the media still considered itself a pillar of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/government-institution-cbi-rbi-pillars-of-democracy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">democracy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it was as susceptible to malicious agenda as it is today.\u00a0 Watching <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a reminder that while the internet may have exposed the many facets of our \u201cheroes\u201d in the recent times, the system, including the media has always been diabolical and self-serving. Integrity has always been an exception, and will perhaps forever be.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a dark satire that internalises and showcases this horrifying truth with an unflinching <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/no-effort-new-years-resolutions-for-commitment-phobe-millennials\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commitment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And that courage, that almost masochistic conviction in the power of systemic and socio-political evil, that willingness to force us to keep looking when we are expected to look away is what makes it not just an exceptional movie, but a social commentary that is timeless and universal.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The movie was and continues to be a pop-culture force. \u201cShaant gadhadhari Bheem, Shaant\u201d, is not just a throwaway dialogue.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it is not just its politics that forms the high point of this story. It is the gags. For all its political and intellectual leanings, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a slapstick that never goes easy on absurdist humour. Whether it is the legendary, pop-culture favourite <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/mahabharata-ramayana-cool\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahabharata<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> scene, or the missing body trope executed brilliantly, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> set pieces are a lesson in comedy that does not rely on vulgarity, insult or any other cheap shortcut to induce laughter. Unlike modern cinema, it is a movie that almost wholly relies on its story to pull its weight. The writing on paper is exceptional, bolstered by the brilliance of its motley actors \u2013 Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Vaswani, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah, Om Puri, Satish Kaushik \u2013 who commit to the nonsense with the same enthusiasm that they reserve for the serious themes.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rewatching <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a lot like watching serendipity in motion, a celluloid history in making. It is a proof of the fact that great stories and great actors do not thrive because of expensive productions. They do so despite them. There is a reason why the movie\u2019s excellence remains unparalleled. It was easy to copy the form. It was the substance, the soul of that story that is irreplaceable. Nobody wrote a script like that again. Nobody dared. Not just because it was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/the-art-of-political-name-calling-2019-modi-rahul\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">politically<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sensitive. But perhaps because it was impossible.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie was and continues to be a pop-culture force. \u201cShaant gadhadhari Bheem, Shaant\u201d, is not just a throwaway dialogue. It is a reference that cuts across generations of people, making fun of pointless outbursts, many of them not even aware of the source. Not consciously anyway. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a running joke that has outlasted decades. Perhaps because in its utterly helpless cynicism, it affords a rare catharsis to the common man who continues to be as beleaguered by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/corrupt-politicians-elections-vote-banks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">corruption<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and systemic greed as he was 36 years ago.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is something deeply depressing and morbidly funny about the continued relevance of the film in our world. Which perhaps is the most accurate summary of everything it stands for. Because if there is one thing that\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> teaches us, the one timeless lesson, it is that the joke is never on the system. It is always on us, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/mumbais-common-man-worli-promenade-coastal-road-project\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">common man<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is a reminder that while the internet may have exposed the many facets of our \u201cheroes\u201d in the recent times, the system, including the media has always been diabolical and self-serving. 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