Jane bhi do Yaaron

I was going through my friend's blog, when I found the link to Mohalla. 12th of August Jane bhi Do yaaron turns 25. Yes its been 25 years since this masterpiece was created by Kundan Shah. The lead characters in the movie, Sudhir and Vinod are named after the famous directors Sudhir Misra and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. They were freshers from Pune school of direction at that time.

Its been almost three decades, much has changed in the film industry, the films are technicall much better, now the average budget of a movie is more than 20 crores, but yet as Dipti writes in her blog, we have missed out on something. The reality, the characters of Jane Bhi Do yaaron are so real, it shows the struggling face of India. There is a fire in Sudhir and Vinod, which targets the Real Estate industry of Mumbai, the corruption prevelant in it. This movie deals with Corruption and inefficiency in a very sarcastic way, I remeber the dialogue after Commissioner D'Mello's death, the new commisioner is giving a speech on the newly inaugerated D'Mello flyover:

"Commissioner D'Mello ki yaad main ek din ke liye sheher ke saare gatar band kiye jaayenge, aap log peene ka paani pahle se bhar lein"

This sentence speaks a lot, it takes on the inefficiency in Mumbai in a sutle sarcastic way, it tells what was the standard the Mumbai slum dwellers were pushed in, and now not much has changed, they still need to store their drinking water if the gatar's go on Hadtaal.

But my favorite part of the film is the encounter between Commissioner D'Mello and Ahuja, when he is drunk out of his mind and is trying to help D'Mello in the coffin thinking that its a car!!!

Another popular dialogue from the movie "Thoda Khao thoda feko mazaa aata hai" this is again a sarcastic remark for people like Tarneja and D'Mello who gets the luxury of eating a swiss cake, and then throwing it, gives them a wierd kind of pleasure. Sarcasm apart, I really love the way this scene has been shot, and in the end Ravi Baswani's answer to the question "haan aaya!!"

Great movie, again one of my favorites after Chashme Buddoor