Welcome to the screenwriting breakdown and analysis of Bollywood film Johnny Gaddar (2007)

This genre-defining neo-noir caper film starring Neil Nitin Mukesh, written by Sriram Raghavan, Pooja Ladha Surti, Vinay Chaudhary, and Atul Taishete changed how Indian audiences consume caper crime films.

In this episode of the Breakdown Besties, your film-school level screenwriting class experience, we analyze the techniques used in the script, to make the film come alive on the screen.

Here’s what we cover:

0:00 Introduction

02:34 Logline breakdown
08: 20 Hero's Journey analysis

27:10 World Building

33:49 Scene construction

49:05 Genre trope analysis

51:36 Plotting

And after you’re done watching the episode, we recommend you watch Johnny Gaddar again, now with all the awareness of the techniques, and see how they’re executed to bring entertainment to life.

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