Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1970
Johny Mera Naam
Buy Johny Mera Naam now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Johny Mera Naam' is a 1970 Indian Hindi-language crime action film directed by Vijay Anand. The film stars the director's brother, Dev Anand and Pran in the roles of brothers separated in childhood. Hema Malini, Jeevan, Premnath, I. S. Johar and Iftekhar also star in pivotal roles.
At the 18th Filmfare Awards, Vijay Anand won the Filmfare Best Screenplay Award, while actor I.S. Johar received his first Best Performance in a Comic Role for his triple roles: a steward in an aeroplane, an associate of criminals and a police officer. The film was remade in Kannada as 'Apoorva Sangama', in Telugu as 'Eduruleni Manishi' and in Tamil as 'Raja'.
Synopsis
Mohan and Sohan are the sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father is killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit. Mohan kills the goon, takes refuge in a car boot, and goes missing.
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, solves a case wooing Rekha and finds the criminal. Finally, Rekha takes refuge in a car boot and goes missing.
Cast
* Dev Anand as Sohan / Johny
* Hema Malini as Rekha
* Pran as Mohan / Moti
* Jeevan as Heera
* Premnath as Ranjeet / Rai Sahib Bhupendra Singh
* I. S. Johar as Pehle Ram / Dooja Ram / Teeja Ram (Triple Role)
* Iftekhar as Chief Inspector Mehta
* Sulochana Latkar as Mother
* Padma Khanna as Tara
* Randhawa as Babu
Box office
It was the highest grossing Bollywood film of 1970.
Soundtrack
The movie boasts one of the best performances of Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle. 'Johny Mera Naam' marked some of the best music composed by the duo Kalyanji-Anandji and pro memoria lyrics of Indeevar.
Influences
The song "Pal Bhar Ke Liye" 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.
References
Buy Johny Mera Naam now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1970