{"id":592,"date":"2010-08-23T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2010\/08\/remembering-ravi-baswani-2.html"},"modified":"2011-06-03T20:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:54:55","slug":"remembering-ravi-baswani-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2010\/08\/remembering-ravi-baswani-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Ravi Baswani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the best remembered comedy of all time, <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/review-jaane-bhi-do-yaaron.html\">Jaane bhi do yaaron<\/a> was and is a giant. In it\u2019s humor, subtlety and satire, it stands tall and apart from all the tomfoolery that is passed up as \u201ccomedy\u201d these days. I remember this film fondly after almost 27 years, and I\u2019m almost sorta convinced that there are a whole lot of folks out there like me.<\/p>\n<p>And what is a film without it\u2019s actors ? Those, in this case are Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Baswani. I should probably say were, because Baswani himself is no more, having succumbed to a heart attack on July 27. Baswani started off and featured in many serials on Doordarshan, for those of you that remember \u201cIdhar Udhar\u201d. One of his most memorable films was <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/review-chasm-e-buddoor.html\">\u201cChashm-e-buddoor\u201d<\/a> with Farooque Sheikh and Rakesh Bedi.<\/p>\n<p>A wonderful actor who didn\u2019t quite make it in prime-time Bollywood because of the roles he preferred to essay, he will always be remembered for his slightly zany, bespectacled Sudhir.<\/p>\n<p>Baswani was 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the best remembered comedy of all time, Jaane bhi do yaaron was and is a giant. In it\u2019s humor, subtlety and satire, it stands tall and apart from all the tomfoolery that is passed up as \u201ccomedy\u201d these days. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2010\/08\/remembering-ravi-baswani-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":"","facebook_10233691416821117_190635594420624":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-bollywood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Probably the best remembered comedy of all time, Jaane bhi do yaaron was and is a giant. 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