Johny Gaddar Hindi Movie

Sep 28, 2007 By Ashok Nayak

Johnny Gaddar is the second directorial venture of director Sriram Raghavan of Ek Haseena Thi fame. Akin to quite a few releases this year; Johnny Gaddar too takes its inspiration from a number of movies of the same kind in bits and pieces. In fact the director reveals his major inspiration in the movie, Johnny's gets instigated to double cross his associates after watching Amitabh Bachchan's movie Parwana.

Unlike the conventional thrillers, Johnny Gaddar is a different. The audience knows right from the outset who the culprit is and how he double-crosses his associates. It's a journey of suspense than mere adventure. With no unnecessary drama and action the director has interwoven the sequences well.

The movie is about a gang of five business associates who despite having their own legitimate work get involved in making quick money. Seshadri (Dharmendra), Prakash (Vinay Patak), Shardul (Zakir Hussain), Shiva (Daya Shetty) and Vikram (Neil Mukesh) plan a conspiracy that would get them fortune in four days and would put them in the big league. One of them gets very greedy and designs another plan to double cross his associates.

Execution of most Bollywood thrillers is below average and usually rejected outright by the audience and critics. Director Raghavan manages to embellish this story with enough twists and turns to keep the momentum going and keep the audience interested. But no movie is without its negatives. The pace of the movie is sluggish at most times and not suitable especially for a film belonging to this genre. Dialogues are interesting only in certain sequences. Cinematography is excellent and adds to the credits of the movie.

Performance keeps the mood of the movie alive and in Johnny Gaddar it is just satisfactory. Dharmendra is mediocre and at times over acts. His dialogue delivery too was rather monotonous. Debutant Neil Mukesh lacks in expressions in certain scenes but has managed to pull off his act well. Vinay Pathak in a non-comical role is good. Zakir Hussain is excellent. He executes the role with ease and comfort.

To sum things up, Johnny Gaddar is a well-embellished thriller. The movie should do good business, especially at the metros.