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John Jani Janardhan is a film of genre Drama directed by Rama Rao Tatineni with Rajinikanth
John Jani Janardhan (1984)
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Add to a movie listJohn Jani Janardhan is a Hindi film is directed by T.Rama Rao. South Indian Superstar Rajinikanth played the main lead in a triple role. John being the father and johnny and janardhan being the two sons. It is a remake of the 1982 Tamil film Moondru Mugam which starred Rajinikanth and Raadhika.
It was successful at the box office and completed 100 days run at the box office, thus being the only triple role film to become hit at the box office.
Actors
Rajinikanth
(Inspector John A. Mendez/Janardhan B. Gupta/Johny)
Poonam Dhillon
(Cheryl J. Mendez)
Rati Agnihotri
(Madhu)
Thiagarajan Sivanandam
(Gopaldas)
Kader Khan
(Gajanand 'Gajju')
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