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8.4/10   1,420 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Ranjit Kapoor (dialogue)
Satish Kaushik (dialogue)
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Release Date:
12 August 1983 (India) more
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Plot:
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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Awards:
1 win more
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One of India's best comedies more (32 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

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Who Pays the Piper
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Runtime:
143 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The two lead characters in the movie are named after the two assistants in the movie, Sudhir Mishra and 'Vidhu Vidod Chopra'. more
Quotes:
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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (1986) (TV) more

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One of India's best comedies, 20 June 1999

This is one of India's best comedy movies. Well made, well directed, very well acted, the movies picks up more laughs as it develops and the climax is certainly the most hilarious. The theme is corruption in business, government and the media. Everybody is on the take, the Police Commissioner, the big bucks businessman, newspaper editor, etc.

Two hungry-for-work photo studio owners accidentally take the picture of a murder and then "all hell breaks loose". The climax at a small theater where "The Mahabharata" is being staged will have you in splits. Crime has never been so much fun. Yet the film never loses its edge, its cynicism of what happens in the real world. The good guys always win in the end, right? Yeah, right... See the movie. I have no doubt this is one of India's classic comedy films.

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