India, Oct. 25 -- Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra who worked on the screenplay and story of Kundan Shah's iconic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) featuring Satish Shah as Commissioner D'Mello shares memories of working with the late actor, in conversation with HT city.

Sudhir recalls, "Kundan had brought in a lot of new people like Nasser (Naseeruddin Shah) Om (Puri) and Satish, who was also from FTII. Kundan and Satish were classmates who had collaborated on Bonga, their diploma film. Among all the actors in Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Satish and Ravi Baswani were most comfortable with the idea that it was not a realistic art film. The film was funny and made a point, they were in tune with the nonsense that Kundan used to talk about. During the famous coffin...