The Extended Canon
Johnny Gaddaar
जॉनी गद्दार · 2007
Five men pool money for one deal and the youngest decides to take it all. Then the improvisations begin.
- Director
- Sriram Raghavan
- Year
- 2007
- Genre
- Neo-noir · Thriller
- Cast
- Neil Nitin Mukesh, Dharmendra, Vinay Pathak, Rimi Sen
Why it's in the canon
A pure pulp machine, dedicated to Vijay Anand and James Hadley Chase, with no wasted frame.
Five men pool money for one deal and the youngest decides to take it all. Then the improvisations begin.
Johnny Gaddaar sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sriram Raghavan — also responsible for Andhadhun, Ek Hasina Thi.
- Released in 2007, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Neo-noir, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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