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Who Pays the Piper

Year:
Duration:
132 min
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
IMDB rate:
8.6
Director:
Kundan Shah
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: India
Release Date: 1983-08-12
Cast
Actor
Character
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah
Who Pays the Piper
Ravi Baswani
Sudhir Mishra
Bhakti Barve
Shobha Sen
Satish Shah
Municipal Commissioner D'Mello
Om Puri
Ahuja
Pankaj Kapur
Tarneja (as Pankaj Kapoor)
Satish Kaushik
Ashok
Neena Gupta
Priya
Deepak Qazir
Asst. Mun. Comm. Srivastav
Rajesh Puri
Kamdar
Zafar Sanjari
Ashok Banthia
Reporter
Uday Chandra
Harshad Gandhi
Jaspal Sandhu
Anil Chaudhary
(as Anil Chowdhury)
Ajay Wadhavkar
(as Ajay Vadhaokar)
Arun Khanna
Adil Rana
Haneef Zahoor
(as Hanif Zahoor)
Pramod A. Dubey
(as Pramod Dube)
Kenny Desai
(as Keni Desai)
Alok Aima
Anwar
Kiran Bokhri
Anil Apte
Rahul Chowdhary
Bharat Karia
Amit Tyagi
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Dushasana
Sudhir Mishra
Reporter (uncredited)
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Trivia
This Movie was made on such a shoestring budget that Naseeruddin 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.
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Director Kundan Shah paid tribute to the film _Blow-Up (1966)_ in his film . The park where the two photographers shoot a dancing monkey is named Antonioni Park, after the director of 'Blow-Up', Michelangelo Antonioni. The photo of the monkey is blown up and it leads to the discovery of a murder.
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The names of the two lead characters played by 'Naseeruddin Shah' and 'Ravi Baswani' are references to the names of the production controller, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and the assistant director, Sudhir Mishra, both of whom went on to become well-known Hindi movie directors.
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Quotes
Ashok: You didn't listen to our conversation, did you?
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Photos from cast
Anupam Kher Naseeruddin Shah
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