Jaane Bhi......

Let Go could be an equivalent of Jaane Bhi do Yaroo of Kundan Shah. Life is a Fixing. Laugh. To live the Fix. Fixing or as the Mumbaikar says, 'setting ho gaya' is norm. Jabs at journalists, real estate corporates, bureaucracy, death with Om Puri dragging a dead municipal commissioner, gods confused -- one can be with them with laughs alone.  No use getting uppy; Let Go. And if Kundan Shah did not make any more films, as critics say, it is because he had nothing more to laugh about. Nukkad and Wagle ki Duniya were smiles. Kundan Shah and his audience had sadly done with laughs in Jaane Bhi... Today, one can watch the film again, laugh and appreciate the eternality of a peach of a film. Thanks Kundan Shah. To the point, Nasee Babu in The Indian Express writes: ...Thank you Kundan; no flight of angels; may an army of clowns sing thee to thy rest. Gods, above and below, may not much enjoy his company. No God has ever laughed. Religious tomes are at best depressing, if not suicidal. Gods are not fun. They have no clowns as assists. Have seen Janne Bhi a couple of times and still guffaw the funeral scene. Every one takes a dead body seriously. Not Kundan or Om Puri. And for me that's about the best piece of art, laugh art ..... Yes Kundan taught us to guffaw. Sure will be guffawing wherever he is, alone if he finds no company. Wonder how you made it Sir. Bye Sir.