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Genre
  
Musical, Action, Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
India

7.2/10
IMDb

Director
  
Vijay Anand

Release date
  
November 11, 1970 (India)

Language
  
Hindi

Writer
  
Vijay Anand
,
K.A. Narayan

Release date
  
11 November 1970

Songs
  
O Mere Raja

Cast
  
Dev Anand
(Johny),
Hema Malini
(Rekha),
Pran
(Moti),
Prem Nath
(Ranjit),
Padma Khanna
(Tara)

Johny Mera Naam (Hindi: जानी मेरा नाम, English: Johny, My Name) is a 1970 bollywood 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.

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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 aeroplane, an associate of criminals, and a police officer. The film was remade in Kannada as Apoorva Sangama with Dr.Rajkumar, in Telugu as Eduruleni Manishi with N. T. Rama Rao and in Tamil as Raja with Sivaji Ganesan.

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 (Premnath). Mohan (Pran) kills the goon, 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), solves a case wooing Rekha (Hema Malini), and finds the criminal.

Cast

  • Dev Anand as Johny / Sohan
  • Hema Malini as Rekha
  • Pran as Moti / Mohan
  • Jeevan as Heera
  • Premnath as Ranjit / Rai Saab Bhupendra Singh
  • I. S. Johar as Pehle Ram (Palmist) / Dooja Ram / Teeja Ram
  • Iftekhar as Chief Inspector Mehta
  • Sulochana as Mother
  • Dulari as Poojari's wife
  • Padma Khanna as Tara
  • Randhawa as Babu

    • Box office

    It was the highest grossing Bollywood film of 1970 and the 7th highest grossing Bollywood movie of the 1970s.

    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 duo Kalyanji Anandji and pro memoria lyrics of Indeevar.

    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.
  • The song "O Mere Raja" was shot at the ruins of Nalanda and the Vishwa Shanti Stupa in Rajgir, Bihar.

    • References

    Johny Mera Naam Wikipedia
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