his movie Bandini in which played in the movie. They are from Yakeen, Aadmi Aur Insaan and Naya Zamana. There are a couple of references to Hollywood movies too, for example when Shiva is introduced in the movie, he's watching Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut. And Dharmendra's line "It's not the age. It's the mileage" echoes a line from the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Apart from the note-counting scene obviously inspired from Scarface, there is a reference to Titanic as well as Citizen Kane in the scene where the female lead is assembling a huge jigsaw puzzle. The colour Red is used predominantly in the movie, as a homage to Sin City. Raghavan himself had confessed wanting to shoot the whole film in Black and White. But the main game is that Raghavan's inspiration for the plot and characterization was not Vijay Anand's film Johny Mera Naam. Raghavan employs a rope-a-dope by implying that his movie as a tribute to Vijay Anand and also adding in Parwaana and James Hadley Chase as distraction, while the fact is that the movie was an adaptation of the 1963 French movie Symphonie Pour Un Massacre (The Corrupt) by Jacques Deray which was based on the 1962 French crime novel Les Mystifies by Alain Reynaud Fourton though there are also similarities with the Stanley Kubrick's film noir classic The Killing - in the plot elements like the ex-conman character, the cheating wife and no-one escape climax - which are not coincidental. The only stark difference is that Kubrick's Johnny isn't the gaddar (the traitor). Cast Neil Nitin Mukesh as Vikram / Johnny G Dharmendra as Sheshadri 'Seshu' Rimi Sen as Mini (Vikram's Girlfriend and Shardul's Wife) Zakir Hussain as Shardul Vinay Pathak as Prakash 'Pakiya' Ashwini Kalsekar as Varsha (Prakash's wife) Dayanand Shetty as Shiva Govind Namdeo as Inspector Kalyan Vyjayanthi as Nurse Vaijanti Rasika Joshi as Shiva's mother Shankar Sachdev as Naidu Soundtrack The film has fifteen songs and two remixes composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy (soundtrack) and Daniel B George (score), with lyrics by Jaideep Sahni. The album was met with high critical acclaim upon its release. The soundtrack was co produced by composers Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and Adlabs, which is first of its kind in the history of Bollywood. The album was released on 13 September 2007 at IMAX, Wadala, Mumbai. Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Dharmendra, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Sriram Raghavan