“In fact, I get angry when people laugh at me. I go to the airport and the ground hostess starts laughing at me when she sees me. I get irritated and ask them if I just did some comedy for them to laugh like that. But then I apologise because I know they must have remembered some movie scene that I did.”

Indian actor and comedian, born 1957

Johnny Lever is an Indian actor and comedian, known for his work in Hindi cinema. Born John Prakash Rao Janumala, he began his career in 1984 and has appeared in more than three hundred Hindi films. He is among the most widely recognised comic actors in India, and has won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comedic Role twice, for Deewana Mastana and Dulhe Raja. Over a long career, he became known for a style of performance rooted in mainstream Hindi film comedy.