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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.
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.
- January 1, 1
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- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- 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 · ‘Merry Christmas’ director Sriram Raghavan speaks about Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on his filmmaking and his wish to create tank battle sequences in his next film ‘Ikkis’
- 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.
Jan 11, 2024 · 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 17, 2024 · Sriram Raghavan on Merry Christmas, its ‘clap-worthy’ climax and why comparison with Andhadhun unfair: ‘Some haven’t taken it kindly’. Starring Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi, Merry Christmas hit the screens last Friday, marking the director's return to the cinema halls after his 2018 blockbuster Andhadhun. Written by Justin Joseph Rao.
