Johnny Gaddaar
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| Directed by | Sriram Raghavan |
| Written by | Sriram Raghavan |
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Dharmendra Neil Nitin Mukesh Rimi Sen Vinay Pathak Zakir Hussain Ashwini Kalsekar Govind Namdeo |
| Music by | Shankar Ehsaan Loy |
| Cinematography | C.K. Muraleedharan |
| Edited by | Pooja Ladha Surti |
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Adlabs Films Ltd
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| Distributed by | Adlabs Films Ltd |
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Running time
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120 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹6.7 crore (US$1.0 million) |
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| Soundtrack album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | ||||
| Released | 25 August 2007 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 61:11 | |||
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Hindi Tamil Telugu |
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Shankar Ehsaan Loy Adlabs |
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Johnny Gaddaar (Hindi: जॉनी गद्दार), (meaning Johnny the Traitor in English) is a 2007 Indian neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Sriram Raghavan; produced under the banner Adlabs. It stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, in his film debut, alongside Dharmendra, Zakir Hussain, Rimi Sen, Vinay Pathak, Govind Namdeo, Dayanand Shetty and Ashwini Kalsekar. The film received critical acclaim., went on to be 'sleeper hit' of the year. The film was later remade in Malayalam as Unnam and in Telugu as Kamini.
The film starts out on a rainy night with a conversation between four cops in a police van, patrolling the streets of Mumbai. A car narrowly misses colliding into them on the road, brakes and then continues on towards a house with iron gates. A man in a jacket gets out from the car, heads towards the garage and opens the roller shutter door when he is shot from behind multiple times. At the same time, the cops in the van receive an alert on the radio that gunshots have been heard somewhere in the vicinity and they ask the driver to head towards the location of the gunshots.
The entire movie is then shown as a flashback, building up to the present shooting, and scene of the cops in the van.
The story is about a gang of five that run a gambling club and conduct other underhand deals. The five members are Vikram (Neil Nitin Mukesh), Seshadri (Dharmendra), Shardul (Zakir Hussain), Prakash (Vinay Pathak) and Shiva (Dayanand Shetty). When one of Seshadri's police contacts from Bengaluru, Kalyan (Govind Namdeo) informs him, on the phone about "French furniture" (code word for drugs) worth Rs. 5 crore that he can offer him for Rs. 2.5 crore, Seshadri calls for all 5 members to contribute Rs. 50 lacs each to set the deal in motion. Based on Shardul's promise of being able to sell the furniture for more than Rs. 5 crore, each member anticipates a profit of a further Rs. 50 lacs each, at least.
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