1983 · comedy · satire · political
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Directed by Kundan Shah2h 12m1983
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.
Our read: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · satire · political entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- funny
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