My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves is a
Bollywood Drama starring newcomer
Nikhil Dwivedi,
Amrita Rao and
Mithun Chakraborty as the lead protagonists. The film is directed by
E. Niwas. The name of the movie is derived from the 1977 hit movie
Amar Akbar Anthony's famous song, "
My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves." The film was released on 11 January 2008. The film was a
box office bomb.
Synopsis
My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves starts with a gangster and killer, Sikander (
Pawan Malhotra), murdering someone with his gang; they bury him and flee. Then the story line drops to a young man, Anthony Gonsalves (introducing
Nikhil Dwivedi), who accepts Sikander for his father, guru, everything, since Sikander adopted Anthony when he was a young child living on the streets. He didn't exactly adopt him, since he says that his real father is the town priest (
Mithun Chakraborty).
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, meeting his idols,
Priyanka Chopra, etc.
One day when Anthony is practicing film dialogues with a couple of street gangsters, he meets Riya (
Amrita Rao), a woman who has no more family, is an orphan, who lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai and works as an assistant director for a movie producer, Bharucha (
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