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MOVIE PREVIEW: JOHNNY GADDAR

MOVIE PREVIEW: JOHNNY GADDAR (2007)

Cast: Dharmendra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rimi Sen, Zakir Hussain, Vinay Pathak, Daya Shetty, Ashwini Kalsekar

Director: Sriram Raghavan

Producer: Jhamu Sugandh

Music Director: Vishal-Shekhar

Remember ‘Ek Haseena Thi’, yes..the Sriram Raghavan directed flick that showed power packed performances from Saif Ali Khan and Urmila. Now, Adlabs has announced that it will be producing and distributing Sriram Raghavan’s latest film JOHNNY GADDAAR.

The film is a suspense thriller from the same technical team that was part of EK HASEENA THI. The story of the film has been adopted from various pieces of work such as FARGO, PULP FICTION and LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS.

The cast of the film includes Dharmendra, who is making a comeback after a long gap. The movie is also the launch pad of Neil Nitin Mukesh, who previously worked as an assistant director with Yash Raj for four years and has an impeccable film lineage as the son of Nitin Mukesh and grandson of singer Mukesh. Also, Rimi Sen, Zakir Hussain, Vinay Pathak, Daya Shetty and Ashwini Kalsekar play important characters in the thriller. The music has been composed by Vishal-Shekhar.

The movie basically revolves around a gang of five men, Dharmendra playing the eldest and Neil playing the youngest. They face a bright prospect of making a fortune through what seems to be a simple exchange of contraband for money on a train. The story takes a somersault when one of the gang members gets killed before he can make the exchange and the money he was holding, disappears.

Then a series of events take place in search for the thief and the killer. The traitor is supposedly one amidst them as for no one else knew about the heist.

Not a typical whodunit in the literal sense of the word, Johnny Gaddaar is an interesting mix of greed, betrayal, corruption, love, desperation and murder.

In his words director Sriram Raghavan says, “I grew up on the crime novels of James Hadley Chase, although this movie is not based on any Chase novel. Why the title JOHNNY GADDAAR considering there is no character by that name in the movie? Well, it’s a homage to one of my all-time favorite movies JOHNNY MERA NAAM by the great Vijay Anand. And it’s got a reason in the movie too, which you’ll have to watch.”

JOHNNY GADDAAR is slated for release in May 2007.

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By: Staff Reporter - NewzWatch February 21, 2007

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