14 Responses to "Husn ke laakhon rang kaun sa rang dekhoge"
January 22, 2014 at 5:18 pm
A great opening and the continued success of Johnny Mera Naam was, in a way, responsible for the utter flop of another great movie Mera Naam Joker. Although, in re-runs Joker is the best grossing movie for R K Films to date.
Satyajit Rajurkar
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January 22, 2014 at 5:21 pm
I never realised that the success of Johny Mera Naam could have been responsible for the flop show of Mera Naam Joker.
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January 22, 2014 at 5:27 pm
Atul, I remember discussing this with my mother, who had read it in many film journals/magazines, about it.
Satyajit
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January 22, 2014 at 5:29 pm
Also, Atul, both the movies were released on the same day.
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January 22, 2014 at 5:54 pm
Interesting fact, which most people nowadays are no longer aware of.
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January 22, 2014 at 10:06 pm
As per Wikipedia, ‘Johny Mera Naam’ was released on November 17, 1970 and ‘Mera Naam Joker’ on December 18, 1970.
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January 22, 2014 at 5:24 pm
Also, Johnny Mera Naam was the first in its genre, thanks to Vijay Anand, to have the game changing (baazi palatna) themes, which were the hallmark of the films of 70s and 80s.
Cheers
Satyajit Rajurkar
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January 22, 2014 at 5:55 pm
I think censor officials heavily edited/scissored the song.While watching,I get a feeling that the song is badly chopped in between. Any confirmations ?
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January 23, 2014 at 7:55 am
Thank you, Sadana d Kamat Ji. This shows that JMN had full 4 weeks of viewership and word of mouth to be the cause of MNJ’s downfall.
Cheers
Satyajit
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January 23, 2014 at 9:49 am
I had seen both these films when they were released. If my memory serves me right, ‘Johny Mera Naam’ was released without much pre-release fun fare while ‘Mera Naam Joker’ was released with much of pre-release hypes, probably created more by media than R K Films.
‘Johny Mera Naam’ was a fast-paced thriller like T-20.cricket match. The first part of ‘Mera Naam Joker’ was like opening batsmen giving a solid and crisp start in a Test Match. However, the film’s next two parts were like a dull Test Match with subsequent batsmen not keeping up to the expectations of the spectators.
Apart from this, the length of the film was an issue with the audience. After some years, I again saw the edited version of ‘Mera Naam Joker’ and I liked it.
The word of mouth played an important role in the box office collections of these two films – Johny Mera Naam revived from it and ‘Mera Naam Joker’ got dumped from it on its first release.
January 23, 2014 at 9:47 am
Despite a great thriller story I always dislike to view the movie because of this song due to its vulgar picturization. Well, but hats-off to the lyricists of golden era who never compromise with words.
Rajendra Krishna is the topmost underrated lyricist of Bollywood. In real sense, he is the Shailendra of small banners. While Shailendra is not much Urdu expert, RK had a very good command on Urdu. He is the primary choice of C. Ramchandra and Madan Mohan but both these music directors was not associated with big banners RK’s work never highlighted. RK is the only lyricist who penned all songs for movie COLLEGE GIRL (1960) for SJ while except this all films of SJ have one, more or all songs by their regular lyricists Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri right from Barsat (1949). After Shailendra’s death, Sachhai (1969) is such second film where all songs penned by RK. RK is also the third most used lyricist by SJ. He also worked with all top MDs like Naushad, Hushlal Bhagatram, OP Nayyar, Khaiyyam, SDB, Roshan, Chitragupt etc also tuned up well with next generation MDs like KA, LP, RDB etc. He is the one such lyricist who penned songs for almost all the themes and situations of life. He is more active during 1947 to 1981 after then he penned lyrics for few films only. He contributed songs for near about 250 films whereas he also write screen-play for more than 100 films.
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January 23, 2014 at 2:22 pm
Kya baat Hain One more movie goes Red.!!!! YYYYIIIIIPPPPPEEEEE!!!!
but weonder of wonders this song was left. HHHHMMMM!
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February 1, 2014 at 9:55 pm
What a hilarious write up…… I loved duty is duty 🙂
Keep it up Atul ji! Your sense of humour impeccable to say least!
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January 22, 2014 at 4:54 pm
Congratulations Atul ji & Prakash ji for covering all songs of this movie ‘Johny Mera Naam-1970’ and its joining to the list of ‘Movies-All Songs Covered’.
The movie is remebered for Vijay Anand’s direction and its songs as well.
thanks!
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