First the plot:
Sudheer and Vinod are two friends who want to earn a decent living on their photography skills. After a rather unimpressive start to their photo studio, the duo gets an assignment from the editor of a newspaper named Shobha.(That is the editor’s name, not the newspaper’s name. The newspaper is KHABARDAAR.) This assignment takes our duo on a James Bond adventure after a builder Mr.Tarneja, and his friend, the highly corrupt Commissioner D’mello. Sudheer and Vinod, in the process, uncover dirty business deals of the top order, especially about a deal of a proposed flyover, for which Tarneja and his rival Ahuja are in the race. In this whole dirty business one of the builders murders the commissioner, and accidentally, our duo stumbles on the truth. They also succeed in uncovering the corpse of the commissioner......and this is where the film reaches its apex. What follows is a chase, with everyone pursuing everyone to get their hands on the dead commissioner, for the corpse is the ace of spades for the guilty to be punished.
Get the picture? Corruption, builders, murder, chase....and now the best thing....All this is one hell of a slapstick comedy. The photographers, acted by Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Vaswani, suit their roles perfectly. The late Bhakti Barve-Inamdar, in the role of the editor has really proved once again her prowess. Pankaj Kapoor as Tarneja, and Om Puri as Ahuja, have done a highly commendable job(I especially loved Om Puri’s Punjabi accent). But undoubtedly, the one person who stole the show was Satish Shah, who acted the corpse. In fact, the last section of this wonderful comedy is the journey of the corpse, and people running after it. The film has innumerable hilarious situations like the meeting between Ahuja and Tarneja, the cake eating session at the Commissioner’s bungalow, the telephonic conversation between Vinod(Naseer) and Tarneja’s secretary Ashok(Satish Kaushik)....but the high point of this whole drama is... well, a drama! Watch the film to enjoy that!
The direction is exceptional(Kundan Shah). Renu Saluja’s editing and the dialogues by Ranjit Kapoor & Satish Kaushik are really nice. With not a single song in the film(except for the no-music humming of ’’Hum Honge Kaamyaab’’), Vanraj Bhatia has really done a marvellous job with the background score.
The whole film, alongwith its highly comical situations, definitely makes the viewer think seriously over some core issues concerning our present system. And that is where we can confidently say that the director has succeeded.