Johnny Gaddar - To Each His Own
20th June 2008 | posted in External Reviews, Hindi Movies, meetu |Looks like youre new here. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Meetu’s Review: It was refreshing to use my brain while watching a movie and finding out that the moviemakers have also done the same while making it. Not flawless, but completely entertaining, Johnny Gaddar is a must watch!
Rating: Watch for sure - preferably in theatre
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Here is what 27 other reviewers/viewers think. Average rating 4.8 / 5.0: 25 thumbs up, 2 so-so, 0 thumbs down.
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| Nikhil Kumar, Apun Ka Choice …. The script is tight, the plot is immensely interesting, the dialogues are well penned… See full review |
Bollyvista.com …The first half is tight and has ample twist and turns, but the second half drags… See full review |
| Rachel Fernandes, Bollywood Mantra …The action may not be of hi-tech variety but its rawness is what makes it even more interesting…. See full review |
Fatema H Kagalwala, Business of Cinema …The skilful writing of the film is also revealed in its characters who, though skimpily sketched makes the audience relate to them…. See full review |
| Deep, Deep’s Home …The music was kind of bad, leaving the title song apart…. See full review |
Martin D’Souza, Glamsham.com …The cast is good and it shows in their performances…. See full review |
| Khalid Mohamed, Hindustan Times …Truly, the form is simply fantastic, what with the jump cuts, swipes, crane swoops and creative lighting schemes… See full review |
Rajeev Masand, IBN Live …If there?s one problem and one problem alone with Johnny Gaddaar, it?s the fact that the screenplay slips up in the second half…. See full review |
| Taran Adarsh, IndiaFM …The beauty lies in the fact that no one can predict what’s in store next…. See full review |
Joginder Tuteja, Indiaglitz …Background score plays a vital role in making JOHNNY GADDAAR the kind of spice that makes you salivate but also ask for more… See full review |
| Praveen Lance Fernandes, indiatimes … What works is the fact that minute things shown earlier in the film come cropping up once again adding to the punch of the already existing plot…. See full review |
Anu Kamat, Intermission, The Bookeazy Blog …No songs. Yes, the film has no songs which means the viewer does not lose focus or deviate on the central plot even once…. See full review |
| Amit Kaundinya, J.A.M …He pays homage to his idols, James Hadley Chase, Vijay Anand and Amitabh Bachchan and weaves them very innovatively into the plot of the film…. See full review |
Vaibhav Wankhede, M TV …Neil Mukesh makes a impressive debut… See full review |
| Amit R Agarwal, merinews …Each and every character has been detailed to perfection… See full review |
Anupama Chopra, NDTV …But Johnny is a far more fun than Hasina. Sriram, a devotee of Vijay Anand and James Hadley Chase, has created slick pulp fiction…. See full review |
| Ashok Nayak, Now Running.com …The pace of the movie is sluggish at most times and not suitable especially for a film belonging to this genre…. See full review |
Subhash K Jha, Now Running.com …Hamletian in tone and utterly liberated from the artifice that often underlines noire films from Bollywood, “Johnny Gaddar” is a feast of feverish fury harnessed very cleverly… See full review |
| Full2Faltu, Passion for Cinema …I had liked Sriram Raghavan?s ?Ek Hasina Thi? too and this is so much better…. See full review |
Siddharth Pillai, Passion for Cinema …one element, that raises ?Johnny Gaddar? from the ?pop, enjoy and evaporate? likes of ?Ek Chalis..?- nostalgia…. See full review |
| Varun, Passion for Cinema …There were just 8 people in theater here in Houston and all of them liked it… See full review |
Abhishek Singh, Planet Bollywood …he tributes are so heart felt that he didn?t even feel the need to hide the source of inspiration like most of the other filmmakers…. See full review |
| Hanumant Bhansali, Radio Sargam …The best thing about of this thriller is that the suspense is opened right in the beginning…. See full review |
D Morgan, Rediff …assumes that we’re a thinking, breathing audience and not just popcorn-munching machines… See full review |
| SearchIndia.com …all the ingredients of a fine thriller - love, crime, sexy girls, action, unexpected twists and betrayal…. See full review |
Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India …Watch out for Neil Mukesh who pitches the perfect note as the smooth snake in the sleeve… See full review |
| Upper Stall …hot taking, lighting, background score, art direction all get an A+, but the show stopper is the sound design… See full review |