Director Shriram Raghvan strikes back with another masterpiece after Ek Hasina Thi. An interesting and “intelligent” story weaved with good direction and realistic Mumbai locations leaves the audience stuck to their seats. Another striking feature is that the movie starts from the end which the Bollywood directors rarely attempt.

The movie is about 5 club-partners (Shardul(?)–club owner, Shashidhar(Dharmendar)–retired Don, Shiva(Dayanad Shetty), Vinay Pathak–club runner and Vikram (Neil Nitin Mukesh)). Shardul’s wife(Rimi Sen) has an extra-marital affair with Vikram. The story begins with the 5 men planning a 2.5 crore deal for which each contributes 50 lakhs. Vikram, having wrong intentions wants to grab the whole sum.

Vikram’s loot plan (inspired from Bachchan starer Parwana) is almost successful until he by mistake kills Shiva. And then begins the game of luck and mistakes. Vikram ,ready to go to any extent t0 save himself and of course the stolen money, starts the series of lies, misunderstandings and murders. The twist in the movie comes when he gets to know that some of the loot money is fake.

The beauty of the movie lies in the fact that no one in the movie (except the audience ) knows that the “Gaddar” is Vikram. Vikram leaves no evidence of his cheat till the end , yet dies “by mistake”.

On the whole Johnny Gaddaar is a promising one-time entertainer. Neither a very heavy movie nor a light hearted entertainer. Movie deserves 3 1/2 star.