Johny Ustad (1980) User Reviews

Mahendran's classic

[kandan_m · 8/10 · 20 January 2006]

Mahendran is in par with Sathyajit Ray. Simplicity of story telling and bringing that out in the camera is a rare art. Influenced by Satyajit Ray, Mahendran did bring to the Tamil industry a classic collection of his movies. Jhonny is one of the classics that illustrates the life pattern of two characters who look alike and how their actions affect each other.This undoubtedly is a classic of south Indian cinema. Portrayal of a twin role in a movie has never been handled so effortlessly and artistically. This movie has real good camera work as the shots are very simple and gel in well with the flow of the movie. Mahendran has an aesthetic sense and shapes his characters very beautifully, the songs in this movie are also very limited and are used only in places where they are required, this again is a very rare phenomenon in Tamil cinema. This is a must see for serious movie buffs.

My All-time Favorite

[Navaneethan · 8/10 · 11 May 2012]

A very good film and a must watch for everyone. Excellent direction by Mahendran and beautiful performance by Rajnikanth (and Rajnikanth!) and Sridevi. The casting was perfect, music by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja was awesome and camera by Ashok Kumar was decent.

Probably it's the only film which I've seen many times in my lifetime and I love to watch it for many more times too.

The story was good except for one place where I'm confused till date. It is the starting scene, where the character named 'Vidyasagar' is shown to be a Robber. But actually, the character named 'Johnny' is only the Robber.

Anyways, except for that, it is a very good film.

Musical Masterpiece with Vintage Acting

[vivianbalagan · 9/10 · 2 March 2018]

Rajinikanth played two contrasting roles johnny and Vidya sagar, Sridevi as a singer hopelessly in love with Johnny. Its an emotionally moving story, intense acting by Rajini and Sridevi and memorable songs and masterclass BGM by Ilaiyaraaja.Classic Stud!!

JOHNNY the movie which tickles our senses.

[arjunflamingfeather · 10/10 · 25 November 2018]

SRI DEVI is a star in this movie which we have not seen but from memory of the dual roles; RAJNIKANT has acted here in another dual role which includes a latter release dated film in this decade.