My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (2008)

Riya lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Mumbai and works as an Assistant Director for a movie producer, Bharucha. After the passing of her mother, she is consoled by a young man, Anthony ... See full summary »

Director:

Eeshwar Nivas

Writers:

Mayur Puri, Lajan Joseph

Stars:

Nikhil Dwivedi, Amrita Rao, Mithun Chakraborty

Cast

Credited cast:
Nikhil Dwivedi	...	Anthony Gonsalves
Amrita Rao	...	Riya
Mithun Chakraborty	...	Father Braganza
Anupam Kher	...	Murtaza
Pavan Malhotra	...	Sikandar
Mukesh Tiwari	...	Maqsood
D. Santosh	...	Michael
Saurabh Shukla	...	Murthy - Cameraman
Lillete Dubey	...	Bharucha - Movie Director
Anupam Maanav	...	Choreographer
Anil Kapoor	...	Himself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hrishitaa Bhatt	...	Item Girl
Priyanka Chopra	...	Herself - Dream sequence
Daya Shankar Pandey	...	Riyaz
Javed Sheikh	...	Inspector Khan

Storyline

Riya lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Mumbai and works as an Assistant Director for a movie producer, Bharucha. After the passing of her mother, she is consoled by a young man, Anthony Gonsalves, in the church graveyard. He introduces himself as the son of Jeffrey, who passed away during 1986, and works as a waiter in Jimmy's Pub, Bandra and wants to be a Bollywood actor. Thereafter she meets him again in the studios when he comes to audition for the part of Mark Anthony in a re-make of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'. Both are attracted to each other and continue to meet. Little does Riya know that Anthony has lied to her, as he never had a father by the name of Jeffrey, and the real person who brought him up is a gangster and killer, Sikander, who is now a suspect in the sudden disappearance of Police Inspector Gupta.

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Plot Keywords:

audition | gangster | waiter | assistant director | orphan | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Romance

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

11 January 2008 (India)

Company Credits

Production Co:

E. Niwas Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Ya Baba"
Written by Sameer
Composed by Pritam Chakraborty
Performed by Sunidhi Chauhan and Shaan
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)

User Reviews

Unexpected pleasure

Not often I get to watch a movie knowing nothing about it, MNIAG was one of those. And what a treat it turned out to be. After the tear-jerking, heartrending glop turned out in TZP, this was an unpretentious delight- nice acting by all concerned, simple story line (though a thoroughly gratuitous fight scene at the end) And that Amrita Rau- she is the spitting image of Emmanuelle Chirqui and equally bubbly! Just the right kind of movie to watch of a Sunday afternoon, no hamming and quite a pleasure to see Anupam Kher actually acting instead of hamming it up as he seems to have been forever since Saraansh.

Yeah, all said and done I recommend MNIAG most heartily and am awfully surprised to see the rating of 5.2 or whatever it has. Must be a bunch of philistines who mistook the shameless emotional manipulation of TZP for real cinema!