Johnny Gaddaar (2007)

Original title

जॉनी गद्दार

Directed by

Sriram Raghavan

Genre

neo-noir

Country

India

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

A

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 70 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gang of five men plan a drug deal. When one member decides to betray the others with the money, the scheme unravels into a chain of mistrust and murder.

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What happens

Johnny Gaddaar (transl. Johnny the Traitor) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Sriram Raghavan, produced under the banner Adlabs. It stars Dharmendra, alongside Neil Nitin Mukesh, in his film debut, Zakir Hussain, Rimi Sen, Vinay Pathak, Govind Namdeo, Dayanand Shetty and Ashwini Kalsekar. The film received critical acclaim and was a sleeper hit at the box-office. It was remade in Malayalam as Unnam, in Telugu as Kamina and in Tamil as Johnny. The film was later identified as an uncredited adaptation of the 1962 French novel Les Mystifies by Alain Reynaud Fourton, which was first adapted into the 1963 French film Symphony for a Massacre by Jacques Deray. In 2018, Raghavan confessed to having read the novel while he was working at ISRO on public safety announcement films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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