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'"My Name is Anthony Gonsalves"' is a popular comic song from the 1977 Bollywood film 'Amar Akbar Anthony'. One unusual feature of this song is that the actor featured in its picturization, Amitabh Bachchan, provides vocals along with the playback singer Kishore Kumar. Amitabh speaks and Kishore Kumar sings. It is shown in a sequence which in a reception, Anthony (Bachchan) sings and performs to be close to Jenny (Parveen Babi), for which her bodyguard keeps him away from her.[http://dcubed.blogspot.com/2005/01/hey-my-heart-show-me.html Hey My Heart, Show Me][https://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/presenters/top40_soundtracks_no36.shtml BBC Asian Network Top 40 Soundtracks of All Time #36] - link dead 27 May 2007

The song was composed by duo LaxmikantPyarelal. The character Anthony Gonsalves is named after Anthony Gonsalves, a music teacher of Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma who was one of the most famous music arrangers in Bombay in the 1930s. He had among his students the likes of RD Burman apart from Pyarelal.

Special effects are used for comic purposes in the picturisation of this song.

The opening line, "You are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity", that is spoken by Anthony when he emerges from the Easter egg, is an almost exact quotation from a speech in the Parliament of the United Kingdom given by British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in 1878. Disraeli (who was referring to William Ewart Gladstone) used the word "inebriated" rather than "intoxicated".[http://www.westernciv.com/syllabi/notes/Gladstone-Disraeli--Instit.pdf Institute for the Study of Western Civilization: The Long Century - Eminent victorians] Anthony Gonsalves was also the name of the arranger for the famous music director Salil Chaudhary.

See also



*Parda Hai Parda

* 'My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves' (2007 film)

References



Category:1977 songs

Category:Indian songs

Category:Hindi film songs

Category:Kishore Kumar songs

Category:Songs with music by LaxmikantPyarelal

Category:Songs with lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Category:Amitabh Bachchan songs

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