Slickness. Spell-check tells us that that’s not even a real word, but we’ll have to invent it.
Slickness is what jumps out at you when you’re watching Johnny Gaddaar. Is this what a Bollywood movie would look like if Tarantino made it?
Not quite. But if the Gettysburg Address was about Johnny Gaddaar, Lincoln would’ve probably said that it’s a movie “about movies lovers, by a movie lover, for movie lovers”. From the get go, it’s apparent that Sriram Raghavan loves his movies, and Johnny Gaddaar is peppered with hat-tips and homage moments to a whole host o....