The latest Bollywood release Dishoom is a classic buddy film in which two men of opposing temperaments are forced to team up for a mission. Over the years, Hollywood had used the formula extensively, and so has Bollywood.
One of the early examples of the buddy film was Raj N Sippy's Andar Baahar (1984), a copy of the 1982 Walter Hill film 48 Hours.
Sippy was known for his stylish thrillers, and this one embodied all the garishness and swagger of commercial Hindi cinema of the '80s. It was shot by ace DOP Ashok Mehta, and written by popular screenwriters of the time - Sachin Bhowmick and Kader Khan.
Jackie Shroff played the stern police officer Ravi Khanna, the prototype used for John Abraham in Dishoom, while Anil Kapoor played Raja, the wisecracking tapori, the kind played by Varun Dhawan.
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