The Killer (2006)

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India, has been made aware of a killer cab-driver in Malaysia who killed several people in a matter of hours, and then crashed his taxi and killed... See full summary »

Directors:

Hasnain Hyderabadwala, Raksha Mistry

Writer:

Sanjay Masoom (dialogue)

Stars:

Irrfan Khan, Emraan Hashmi, Priyanka Kothari

Cast

Credited cast:
Irrfan Khan	...	Vikram / Roopchand Swaroopchand Solanki
Emraan Hashmi	...	Nikhil Joshi
Priyanka Kothari	...	Ria (as Nisha Kothari)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bharati Achrekar	...	Mrs. Joshi
Sanjay Batra	...	Police officer
Amit Bhalla
Anupam Bhattacharya
Avtar Gill	...	Nikhil's boss
Zakir Hussain	...	Jabbar
Prithvi Zutshi	...	Kamaal Khan

Storyline

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India, has been made aware of a killer cab-driver in Malaysia who killed several people in a matter of hours, and then crashed his taxi and killed himself. The same think happened again, this time in Hong Kong, several people were killed by another cab-driver, who also ended up being killed. Now Ranvir Oberoi of the CBI is in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, working together with Dubai Police to protect several witnesses who have agreed to testify against notorious Dubai-based Don, Jabbar. Then the unexpected happens when at first Malika, a witness against Jabbar, gets killed; then Mussa, another witness's girlfriend is killed, with Mussa, himself, missing. Dubai police who are carrying out video surveillance of Jabbar's palatial mansion find that a Cabby, of Indian origin, Nikhil Joshi, was seen entering his estate's gates, and witnesses had stated that they had seen his taxi outside the site of recent murders. The Police race, not only to ...

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Plot Keywords:

dubai | killer | hostage | taxi driver | assassin | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

21 July 2006 (India)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Vishesh Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Remake of Collateral (2004)

User Reviews

rubbish excuse for a film

This movie, is an awful, awful, awful version of the original with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. The Plot is more or less copied word to word with very little originality. The movie lacks any kind of suspense and emotion. Although Irfan Khan may have played commendable roles in the past, his negative character in this film has very little believability. He might as well have been out buying his groceries and became irate at the service with the supermarket and decide to kill a few people on his way home in anger. Thats how believable he was. Tom Cruise's character was very dark. As for the taxi drivers role, Jamie Foxx played a character that had issues in his personal life when Tom Cruise sat in his Cab. Tom Cruise forced him to confront some of these issues and in turn brought out more of his character. Hashmi's character had nothing. He was an ordinary taxi driver with no real background story and could easily have been played by anyone. As for Kothari's role, she was just there to add the usual bit of glamour. Again no real character as Jada Pinkette played. For those of you who can sit there and claim that this is a better version....my guess is, you know very little about film. Personally i think that the producers could have made this a better film by changing Irfan to either Manoj Bajpai or even the Big B. Even then, judging by its originality, i doubt it would have been a great movie.