Like I mentioned in the previous post, I bought the DVD of Johnny Gaddaar on Saturday, and watched the movie today.  Very nice movie, it came out in theatres here a couple of months ago but I couldn't watch it on the big screen.  Anyway, I guess watching it on DVD is a better experience, as you have the subtitles and a few nice special features to go along with it too.  The movie is written and directed by Sriram Raghavan, who earlier made the thriller Ek Hasina Thi for Ram Gopal Varma.

Johnny Gaddaar is a crime thriller with a dark sense of humour.  There is this group of five people who pool in money to negotiate a deal over four days, that will get them a sum total of Rs 2.5 crores.  This "gang" consists of retired smuggler Seshadri (Dharamendra), gambling club owner Prakash (Vinay Pathak), Shardul (Zakir Hussain), Shiva (Dayanand Shetty) and Vikram (Neil Nitin Mukesh).  Vikram is secretly in love with Shardul's wife Minni (Rimi Sen), and what's more, he decides that stealing the entire sum of money is better than settling for just his share.  But then as Alfred Hitchcock once said, murder is always a messy thing — can Vikram keep his deception of the group a secret?

The movie is very stylish and fast paced.  The opening credits are done in the style of a 1970s gangster movie, and the music is nice as well.  The DVD (from Big Home Video) comes with a nice anamorphic transfer and the picture and sound quality were very good.  I had a look at some of the extras on the disc — there is an alternate ending which isn't that different from the ending in the actual film (in fact the current one works better, I think), a couple of music videos, and some amusing blooper footage.  The meat of the extras though, are the commentary track with the director, director of photography (Muraleedharan C K) and editor (Pooja Surti), which I haven't had the chance to check out yet.  Anyway it's a good movie, and I'd rate it an 8/10.

Once again, there's a quick drawing I did to accompany this post — you can see it above (click for a larger version).  This was done with a black ballpoint pen, red gel pen and a black sketch pen.  This time, I actually used the stopwatch feature on my cellphone to see how long I took to draw it.  Took 23 minutes to do.