A martial arts coach struggles to earn money through fights in order to save his wife suffering from blood cancer.
Acting
Pawan Kalyan's raw physicality carries the entire emotional load.
Direction
Kalyan directs himself with maximalist ambition, for better and worse.
Director
Pawan Kalyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pawan Kalyan wrote, directed, and choreographed the action himself—this is peak auteur maximalism gone wrong.
This 2003 flop became a cult curiosity precisely because Kalyan's later political stardom made 'Johnny' fascinatingly prophetic of his messianic self-image.
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