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Sriram Raghavan (born 22 June 1963) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. He is primarily considered an auteur of neo-noir action thrillers. Raghavan made his directorial debut with Ek Hasina Thi (2004).
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- 1987-present
Sriram Raghavan is a director and writer of neo-noir thrillers in Hindi cinema. He has won several awards for his films, including Andhadhun (2018), a black comedy about a blind pianist.
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- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Johnny Gaddaar (2007) Johnny Gaddaar is a film dedicated to Vijaya Anand and James Hadley Chase, and is one of the gold standards of Indian noir. The film follows a gang of four, dubbed nonchalantly as The Gang: Sheshadri (Dharmendra), Vikram (Neil Nitin Mukesh), Prakash (Vinay Pathak), and Shardul (Zakir Hussain).
- Andhadhun (2018) To take a scene and attempt to weave around a robust three-act structure sounds like a project assignment given to a group of students taking a writing course.
- Badlapur (2015) The Indianization of Massimo Carlotto’s novella Death’s Dark Abyss, Badlapur is about the lingering infinitude of crime and mortality.
- Ek Hasina Thi (2004) The first theatrical feature film of Sriram Raghavan is a tale of love gone awry and its eventual metamorphosis into a revenge thriller.
- Johnny Gaddaar (2007) Much like Khosla Ka Ghosla, Maqbool and Black Friday, Johnny Gaddaar became a blueprint for generations of future storytellers.
- Andhadhun (2018) Sriram Raghavan’s biggest hit triggered the kind of online and offline discourse that most directors only dream of. It became a cultural moment, a perfect distillation of his Pune-centric noir into a film that mobilised its craft into a language of entertainment.
- Badlapur (2015) Badlapur is a better Raman Raghav 2.0 than Anurag Kashyap’s Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Which is fair, given that Sriram Raghavan was the first to make a docudrama about the Sixties' serial killer post his FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) days.
- Ek Hasina Thi (2004) A young woman is charmed and duped by her new boyfriend. After reaching rock-bottom in prison, she sets out to take warm-blooded revenge.
Jan 10, 2024 · Home. Entertainment. Movies. Sriram Raghavan Interview: On ‘Merry Christmas,’ ‘Ikkis’ and 20 years as a filmmaker. The director also speaks about Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on his movies and...
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Jan 11, 2024 · Vijay Sethupathi. An Alfred Hitchcock fan, Sriram Raghavan creates dark, gritty worlds that feel familiar yet unique. As his much-anticipated film, Merry Christmas, hits theatres this Friday, let's revisit his earlier projects and how they crowned him the king of the thriller genre in Hindi cinema.
Jan 10, 2024 · 10 Jan 2024, 12:34 pm. In the late Nineties and early 2000s, a New Hindi Cinema emerged from the cultural context of liberalisation, crime and the ‘gangster’ film. This cinema mainly used the neo-noir framework — where violence, sex and crime did not have to be buried under heavy subtexts and insinuations — to address the anxieties of ...