Johnny Gaddaar
Johnny Gaddaar (transl. Johnny the Traitor) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language 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 and was a sleeper hit at the box-office.
| Johnny Gaddaar | |
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| Directed by | Sriram Raghavan |
| Written by | Sriram Raghavan |
| Produced by | Manmohan Shetty |
| Starring | Neil Nitin Mukesh Dharmendra Rimi Sen Vinay Pathak Zakir Hussain Dayanand Shetty Ashwini Kalsekar Govind Namdeo |
| Cinematography | C. K. Muraleedharan |
| Edited by | Pooja Ladha Surti |
| Music by | Score: Daniel B. George Songs: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy |
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| Distributed by | Adlabs |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹7.50 crore |
| Box office | ₹5.68 crore |
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 a 1963 French film Symphonie Pour Un Massacre (The Corrupt) by Jacques Deray. In 2018, Raghavan confessed to having read the novel while he was working at ISRO on public safety announcement films. The film was later remade in Malayalam as Unnam, in Telugu as Kamina and in Tamil as Johnny.