Johnny Gaddaar is what we call superb entertainment. It is a damn good thriller - gripping, riveting, dark and suspensive, and it will definitely have you glued to your seat throughout. Director Sriram Raghavan, who earlier directed the excellent Ek Hasina Thi, directs this movie with great integrity and understanding of the required mood, capturing every moment of it with sheer skill. He clearly takes inspiration from James Hadley Chase novels and several classic movies from India and abroad to create a true westernised Indian pulp fiction, and this makes it the more so enjoyable and fun. The movie presents a realistic yet different cultural world that is just fun to watch, but most importantly, it has style. And this style is created not only by the terrific screenplay, but also by its clever use of its technical aspects. The slick cinematography, the impressive camera work, the great editing, and the awesome background score, all contribute to the film's suspense and unpredictability. The acting is roundly good, from Dharmendra, who delivers one of his finest works in recent years, to Vinay Pathak who rocks as always to the hot Rimi Sen, the wonderful Ashwini Khalsekar to Govind Namdeo and Zakir Hussan, everyone does well. The movie, however, clearly belongs to Neil Nitin Mukesh, who delivers a very convincing debut performance, effectively playing the many shades of his character. He can be naive, sophisticated, devious or just indifferent, but he is just the real Johnny. Johnny Gaddaar is a movie everyone would enjoy watching - a thriller which is taut, twisted, fast-paced, unpredictable, and just very entertaining.