My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (film)

My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Eeshwar Nivas
Written by	Dialogue: Mayur Puri
Screenplay by	Mayur Puri Lajan Joseph
Produced by	Sahara One Motion Pictures
Starring	Nikhil Dwivedi Amrita Rao Mithun Chakraborty
Cinematography	Prakash Kutty
Edited by	Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Music by	Pritam Himesh Reshammiya
Distributed by	Sahara One
Release date	11 January 2008 (2008-01-11)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language crime-drama film directed by Eeshwar Nivas and starring newcomer Nikhil Dwivedi, Amrita Rao and Mithun Chakraborty as the lead protagonists. The name of this film is derived from superstars Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, and Rishi Kapoor's successful film Amar Akbar Anthony 's famous song, "My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves". It was released on 11 January 2008 and was a box office bomb. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Plot

My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves starts with a gangster and killer, Sikander, murdering someone with his gang; they bury him and flee. Then the story line drops to a young man, Anthony Gonsalves who accepts Sikander for his father and guru, since Sikander takes Anthony in when he was a young child living on the streets. He doesn't adopt him, though, since he says that his real father is the town priest.

Anthony's big dream is to become a famous and wealthy actor and be as kind as Sikander—he doesn't know that Sikander is a murderer. Sikander never told him because he wanted Anthony to be a kind and nice gentleman, unlike himself. Anthony has big dreams, like living with high society peoples and meeting his idols.

One day when Anthony is practicing film dialogues with a couple of street gangsters, he meets Riya, a woman who has no family, is an orphan, who lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai and works as an assistant director for a movie producer, Bharucha. Anthony introduces himself as the son of Jeffrey, who died in 1986, and works as a waiter in Jimmy's Pub, Bandra. 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. When he gets the role of Mark Anthony, he goes to tell Sikander and he sees him murdering a person. Anthony now knows the true side of Sikander.

Anthony doesn't tell them, but somehow, police inspector Khan finds out and goes to alert for Sikander, for which he needs the help of Anthony. He gets Anthony on his side, but Anthony is a man of his word and blames all the murders on Sikander's boss. To make it look real, Anthony does fake stunts, like blowing Murtaza's factory up and acting dead. In the climax, Anthony, Sikander, and the priest who raised Anthony, get together to kill Sikander's boss; that's when the police enter. Sikander gets arrested. Anthony marries Riya and becomes a big hero, a superstar, and his dreams come true.

Cast

Artist	Character
Nikhil Dwivedi	Anthony Gonsalves
Amrita Rao	Riya Singh
Mithun Chakraborty	Priest Braganza
Pawan Malhotra	Sikander Bhai
Anupam Kher	Murtaza Seth
Mukesh Tiwari	Maqsood Ahmed
Anil Kapoor	Himself (guest appearance)
Lillete Dubey	Ms. Bharucha
Jawed Sheikh	Inspector Amjad Khan
Priyanka Chopra	Special Guest
Hrishita Bhatt	Special Guest in the song "Ya Baba"
D. Santosh	Michael Raja
Sachin Nayak	Casting Director (in film)
Vishal O Sharma	Shiraj Bhai

Soundtrack

1. "My Name is Anthony Gonsalves Review 1.5/5 | My Name is Anthony Gonsalves Movie Review | My Name is Anthony Gonsalves 2008 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama . 11 January 2008.
2. "My Name is Anthony Gonsalves - movie review by Amodini Sharma - Planet Bollywood".
3. "My Name is Anthony Gonsalves Movie Review {2.5/5}: Critic Review of My Name is Anthony Gonsalves by Times of India". The Times of India .
4. "My Name is Anthony Gonsalves - music review by Samir Dave - Planet Bollywood".

External links

• My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves on Sahara One Motion Pictures
• Official Website of Sahara One Motion Pictures
• My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves at IMDb

My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves
Soundtrack album by Pritam Chakraborty and Himesh Reshammiya
Released	20 December 2007 (2007-12-20)
Recorded	2007
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	30:43
Language	Hindi
Label	T-Series
Pritam Chakraborty chronology
Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007) My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (2007) Bombay to Bangkok (2008)

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