GOVINDA???

In the scene in which Ram Prasad goes to the hockey match (where Bhavani Shanker sees him and gets mad), he says it would be a lot of fun if Govinda and Ashok Kumar were with him. The movie released in 1979, years before Govinda made his debut. So who was Ram Prasad referring to? Was there another Indian celebrity named Govinda in the 1970s?