Johny Mera Naam

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johny mera nam

Film poster
Directed by Vijay Anand
Produced by Gulshan Rai
Written by Vijay Anand
K.A Narayan
Starring Hema Malini
Dev Anand
Pran
Music by Kalyanji Anandji
Cinematography Fali Mistry
Editing by Vijay Anand
Release date(s) 1970
Country India
Language Hindi
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Johny Mera Naam (Johny is my Name) is a 1970 Indian Hindi movie. Directed by Vijay Anand it stars the director's brother Dev Anand in the role of a pair of brothers separated in childhood. Hema Malini, Pran , Jeevan, Premnath, I. S. Johar and Iftekhar also star in this movie.

[edit] The Story

Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (played by Premnath). Mohan kills the goon and takes refuge in a car boot. Years later Sohan goes on to become a CID officer called Sohan Kumar, who solves his cases taking up different guises.

He takes the identity of Johny, a petty thief and gets himself in jail, befriends Heera (enacted by Jeevan) and goes to solve a case wooing Rekha (Hema) and finding the criminal.

[edit] Influences

A scene of the film is shown in the 2007 thriller Johnny Gaddaar, prompting a character to give "Johnny" as a fake name and hence the film title.

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