release date:
21th July, 2006

director: Hasnain S Hyderabadwala
Raksha Mistry

gast:
Emraan Hashmi (Nikhil Joshi)
Irrfan Khan (Vikram)
Nisha Kothari (Ria)
Zakir Hussain (Jabbar)

music director:
Sajid
Wajid

singers:
K K
Shreya Ghosal
Alisha Chinoy
Suzanne D'Mello
Hamza Faruqui
Earl
Sunidhi Chauhan

There's no harm in adapting an English film in Hindi. After all, every director has his/her way of interpreting a story. Moreover, there's a strong possibility that a wide section of desi audiences may not have watched the original/source, which means that the adapted version may come across as a novel experience.

After attempting original concepts with flourish [ZEHER, KALYUG, GANGSTER], Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt's current outing THE KILLER borrows the essence from acclaimed director Michael Mann's Tom Cruise-Jamie Foxx thriller COLLATERAL [2004]. The story of a cabbie and a hit man and the series of murders that take place in one night haven't been witnessed on Hindi screen before. That, sure, makes for an interesting plot!

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