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Ashok: Hey, come here.
Vinod Chopra: What?
Ashok: Didn't you listen to the things I said on the phone?
Vinod Chopra: What?
Ashok: Are you deaf?
Vinod Chopra: Yes!
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Description
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron is without a doubt the greatest comedy made on the Indian screen. The film is outrageously funny and remarkable for its freshness and spontaneity. Director Kundan Shah casts a satirical eye on Civic Admistration, The Police, The Press and Big Business and combining slapstick humour with farce and verbal wit comes up with a film that is delightfully irrelevant as it lampoons practically every institution.The film makes various direct and indirect references. The collapse of the flyover shown in a TV news clip in the film is in fact footage of the actual Byculla bridge which collapsed shortly before the film was made. Tarneja and Ahuja are a composite of Bombay's biggest builder Raheja while Shobha the editor of Khabardaar is an allusion to Shobha De former editor of a film gossip magazine. The film is also full of in joke references. The two photographers are named after Shah's filmmaking colleagues and the code word Albert Pinto of the two sleuths refers to Saaed Mirza's film of the same name. Large posters of Kumar Shahani's Maya Darpan (1972) and Mani Kaul's Uski Roti (1969) can be seen pasted on the walls during the chase. The park wherein the photographers take click the photograph of D'Mello's killing and blow up the picture repeatedly is called Antonioni Park since the sequence was obviously inspired from Antonioni's Blow Up.
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