Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah, who was most recently seen in the second season of the historical fiction streaming show Taj, shared that he didn't find his cult classic black comedy Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro funny while filming it.

Talking about why the Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro sequel is doomed, the senior actor said, "That was a time I believed deeply in the method, believability and logic. I found many situations in the film ludicrous, and I didn't find anything funny while shooting that film. And maybe that's why it is funny because none of us were laughing at ourselves while performing it," he said. 

On further elaborating, he added, "I realised I was mistaken, and I was being unreasonable. I should have tried to get on director Kundan Shah's wavelength instead of trying to get the film on mine."

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro was released in 1983. Directed by Kundan Shah, the film was produced by NFDC. Apart from Naseeruddin Shah, the film starred Ravi Baswani, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah, Satish Kaushik, Bhakti Barve and Neena Gupta.