Johny Mera Naam

Johny Mera Naam is a 1970 Indian Hindi movie. Directed by Vijay Anand, it stars the director's brother, Dev Anand and Pran in the role of a pair of brothers separated in childhood. Hema Malini, Jeevan, Premnath, I. S. Johar and Iftekhar also star in this movie. It is considered a Dev Anand classic.

Synopsis

Monu and Sonu are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (Premnath). Mohan kills the goon and takes refuge in a car boot, and goes missing. Years later Sohan (Dev Anand) 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 (Jeevan) and goes to solve a case wooing Rekha (Hema Malini) and finding the criminal.

Cast

• Dev Anand ... Johny / Sohan
• Hema Malini ... Rekha
• Pran ... Moti / Mohan
• Jeevan ... Heera
• Premnath ... Ranjit / Rai Saab Bhupendra Singh
• I.S. Johar ... Pehle Ram (Palmist) / Dooja Ram / Teeja Ram
• Padma Khanna ... Tara
• Randhawa ... Babu
• Sulochana Latkar ... Sohan's & Mohan's mother (Sulochana)^[2]

Box Office

It was the highest grossing Bollywood film of 1970^[3] and also the 7th highest grossing Bollywood movie of the 1970's.

Soundtrack

Influences

• The song "Pal Bhar Ke Liye" composed by Kalyanji-Anandji, and performed by Kishore Kumar in this film was very popular, it was used at the end of The Simpsons episode Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore (2006).

• 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. The song "Pal Bhar Ke Liye" was picturized at the "Godawari" garden near Kathmandu, in which the glamor girl, Hema Malini, appears in beautiful getup.

External links

Johny Mera Naam at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. ^ IMDB Cast and Credits
2. ^ IMDB Cast and Credits
3. ^ Box Office India 1970
4. ^ www.songs.pk List