My Name is Anthony Gonsalves film rating and review

My Name is Anthony Gonsalves (2008) Film Rating and Review :

It’s just the name

A two-minutes appearance by Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra in a 30-second dream sequence, a newcomer with more hype than promise, and opening credits thanksgiving to everyone from SRK to KJO to Rgv (that is the films only coup!). The whole of bollywood seems to have taken My Name is Anthony Gonsalves under its wings, nurturing and supporting it. Despite all that mollycoddling, this E. Niwas film falters—and falters badly—with the audience turning its back—or a sleepy eye—on the film even before the intermission.

The biggest flaw that plagues My Name is Anthony Gonsalves is that it is impossible to comprehend the genre of the film. Starting of on ‘an ordinary man with extraordinary dreams’ track, it quickly moves into the tried-and-tasted romantic formula, and before you know it, and the film descends into a cops-and-gangsters drama.

And amidst all this is Anthony. Par Anthony kaun hai? Young Anthony, played by Debutant Nikhil Dwivedi, is a waiter, church cleaner, aspiring actor and most importantly, the portage of an under-world bhai.

Par Anthony ke life mein kya problem hai? Only that he inadvertently chances upon his under-world bhai and his cronies dumping a cop’s body one day. Life turns topsy turvy for the bindaas banda. He is turn left precariously positioned between two contrasting lives—an innocent young man is love with the assistant director of his film (Amrita Rao), and the one caught in the murky world of murder and mayhem.

Par My Name is Anthony Gonsalves picter mein kya problem hai? The film fails to engage. The story and screenplay are routine and not much effort is made—by way of dialogue or direction—to push the narrative a few notches higher.

Amrita Rao has a bit role but does fairly well as the girl next door who can also turn on the oomph. Mithun Chakraborty has an even smaller role church father whose only occupation seems to be that of Anthony’s confession board. But the Mahaguru does draw the only ceetees in the film with his karate skills at the films. Nikhil Dwivedi has too much of a Shah Rukh hangover—he talks like him, walks like him and even spreads his arms out wide like him. But he does have screen presence.

Returning after four years, director E. Niwas is a disappointment. Pritam’s conventional ‘one-two chartbusters a film’ track record is also missing. In the end, My Name Anthony Gonsalves may just be remembered for the song that inspired its name.

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