Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Album Category: Hindi, Film
Year: 1983
Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia, Traditional
Lyricist: Girija Kumar Mathur, Traditional
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Album Credits: MUSIC: Vanraj Bhatia. MUSIC ASSISTANT: Kersi Lord.
 
Film Credits: DIRECTOR: Kundan Shah. STORY: Kundan Shah, Sudhir Mishra. SCREENPLAY: Kundan Shah, Sudhir Mishra. DIALOGUE: Ranjit Kapoor, More...
 



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Hum Honge Kamyab Ek Din
Singer: Mahendra Kapoor
Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia, Traditional
Lyricist: Girija Kumar Mathur, Traditional
Genre: Filmi
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  • This was Kundan Shah's directorial debut. He had decided early on that his first film would be a slapstick comedy. In fact, his diploma film at Film and Television Institute of India (FTTI) had been a silent comedy. Later, he had started working on a different film which he had abandoned to start this film. This film was inspired by his comic heroes, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy, his fascination for the newspaper business, the corrupt A.R. Antulay government in Maharashtra at the time and his FTII friends, Ravi Ojha and Rajendra Shaw, who had opened a photo studio to help them tide over their struggles as filmmakers. Shah resumed work on his abandoned film many years later. Titled "Loveria", the film was produced by ABCL but remains shelved.[1]
  • The two leading characters in this film were named Vinod Chopra and Sudhir Mishra as a nod to director Kundan Shah's friends who also worked in this film with him. Vidhu Vinod Chopra played a couple of cameos in the film - the most prominent being that of Duhshasan in the film's climax. He was also credited as the film's production controller. Sudhir Mishra co-wrote the film's story and screenplay along with Kundan Shah and was also his assistant director.[MR12]
  • The Nikon camera Naseeruddin Shah used in the film was his own. Apparently, it was the last time he would use it since he forgot it at a train station during the film's shooting.[MR12]
  • This film was not a commercial success but it became a cult classic despite being made outside the mainstream Hindi film industry by a debutant director and featuring little known actors. It won Kundan Shah the National Film Award for the Best First Film of a Director.
  • Kundan Shah switched to TV after this film. His TV serials "Nukkad" and "Wagle Ki Duniya" were quite successful. His next Hindi film, "Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa" (1994), came a decade later.
  • The American mystery thriller "Blowup" (1966) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni was one of the inspirations for this film. Kundan Shah acknowledged his inspiration in the film by naming the park in which the murder happens as "Antonioni Park".
  • The first cut of this film was 3 hours 15 minutes long with one-third of the film yet to be shot. The film's crew worked for 48 hours to bring the film's length to below 2 hours 25 minutes, the maximum duration allowed for any film produced by NFDC. The length of NFDC films was kept below this duration since anything longer invited higher excise duty. Among the significant cuts made were the film's title song and scenes involving the "disco killer" played by Anupam Kher.[2][3]
  • This film was financed by NFDC after Kundan Shah won the third prize in a script-writing competition organised by them. However, Kundan Shah abandoned the prize-winning script and turned in a new script with NFDC jury's approval. The first prize in the competition was won by "Massey Sahib" (1985) and the second prize by "Godam" (1984).[4][5][6]
  • This film inspired the title of the film "Marrne Bhi Do Yaaron" (2019).[7]

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  • Hum Honge Kamyab Ek Din - Poet Girija Kumar Mathur translated the famous protest song "We Shall Overcome" for the lyrics of this popular Hindi song. "We Shall Overcome" itself originated from African American hymns in the early 20th century before it came to be used extensively in the U.S. civil rights movement. The song became a part of the repertoire of several artists including Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.



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