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Ranjit Kapoor (dialogue)
Satish Kaushik (dialogue)
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Release Date:
12 August 1983 (India) more
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Two friends, attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings, corruption and murder, and must fight to bring the guilty to light. full summary | add synopsis
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Good guys always lose more (32 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Naseeruddin Shah | ... | Vinod Chopra |
| Ravi Baswani | ... | Sudhir Mishra |
| Satish Shah | ... | Municipal Commissioner D'Mello |
 | Om Puri | ... | Ahuja |
| Pankaj Kapur | ... | Tarneja |
| Satish Kaushik | ... | Ashok |
| Neena Gupta | ... | Priya |
| Deepak Qazir | ... | Asst. Mun. Comm. Srivastav |
| Rajesh Puri | ... | Kamdar |
| Zafar Sanjari | ||
| Uday Chandra | ||
| Harshad Gandhi | ||
| Jaspal Sandhu | ||
| Anil Chaudhary | (as Anil Chowdhury) | |
| Ajay Wadhavkar | (as Ajay Vadhaokar) |
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Who Pays the Piper
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This Movie was made on such a shoestring budget that Nasseruddin Shah, the most well known actor was paid only Rs 15,000 ($300) for the movie. Naseer also had to bring his own Nikon camera to the shootings to use as a prop for his character, who was a photographer. Towards the end of the shooting, this camera was stolen, which amongst other painful memories of the making of the film, Naseer still reminisces about! more
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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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Two simple photographers, trying to eke out an honest living, caught in a web of scandal and deceit.
Fantastic direction, outstanding plot, brilliant script, phenomenal casting and amazing acting. This movie has you laughing till the last scene, which is when the laughter is wrenched from your throat!
The movie has great attention to detail. For example, the scene when monkey is being photographed, look into the mirror in his hand. You actually see Tarneja in a checked jacket and gun in hand. Which leads to the single biggest flaw: no gunshot heard?
But that may be forgiven. The comedy is unending!!! For example, the Dhritrashtra, still blind, saying "This is too much! Yeh Akbar kahaan se aa gaya?"... Or Tarneja and Ahuja entering the Mahabharat in complete costumes, but still wearing their specs and sunglasses respectively! That, to my mind, is the single longest comic scene in Hindi cinema!
The laughs do not stop!!! It stays, to date, the best tragi-comedy ever!