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===Reception===
===Reception===
The music of Agneepath got positive reviews from some of the top reviewers. Joginder Tuteja gave 3.5 stars, quoting "''Chikni Chameli'' would be a good enough reason to set up brisk sales for the album.".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/musiccriticreview/id/503039 |title= Joginder Tuteja Review |publisher=Bollywood Hungama|date=2011-11-19 |accessdate=2011-12-19}}</ref> Sukanya Verma of [[Rediff]] gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and said that the film's music was "promising".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/music-review-agneepath/20111222.htm|title=Agneepath music is quite promising|publisher=[[Rediff]]|accessdate=30 December 2011}}</ref> "After a couple of false starts earlier this year, Ajay Atul have truly arrived in Bollywood with Agneepath", said Music Aloud which rated it 8.5/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaloud.com/2011/12/16/agneepath-music-review-bollywood-movie-soundtrack/ |title=Agneepath - Music Review |publisher=Music Aloud |date=19 December 2011 |accessdate=24 January 201}}</ref>
The music of Agneepath got positive reviews from some of the top reviewers. Joginder Tuteja gave 3.5 stars, quoting "''Chikni Chameli'' would be a good enough reason to set up brisk sales for the album.".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/musiccriticreview/id/503039 |title= Joginder Tuteja Review |publisher=Bollywood Hungama|date=2011-11-19 |accessdate=2011-12-19}}</ref> Sukanya Verma of [[Rediff]] gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and said that the film's music was "promising".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/music-review-agneepath/20111222.htm|title=Agneepath music is quite promising|publisher=[[Rediff]]|accessdate=30 December 2011}}</ref> "After a couple of false starts earlier this year, Ajay Atul have truly arrived in Bollywood with Agneepath", said Music Aloud which rated it 8.5/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaloud.com/2011/12/16/agneepath-music-review-bollywood-movie-soundtrack/ |title=Agneepath - Music Review |publisher=Music Aloud |date=19 December 2011 |accessdate=24 January 201}}</ref>

==Release==
Agneepath released on around 2650 screens worldwide.The film lost out in screens in [[West Bengal]] due to the release of a major Bengali film on the same day.<ref>[http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=4243&nCat=/ Housefull 2 To Release On 2700 Screens]</ref>


==Critical Reception==
==Critical Reception==

Revision as of 17:15, 12 April 2012

This article is about the 2012 film. For the 1990 film, see Agneepath (1990 film).
Agneepath
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKaran Malhotra
Screenplay byIla Dutta Bedi
Karan Malhotra
Produced byKaran Johar
StarringHrithik Roshan
Priyanka Chopra
Sanjay Dutt
Rishi Kapoor
Om Puri
CinematographyKiran Deohans
Ravi K. Chandran
Edited byAkiv Ali
Music byAjay-Atul
Distributed byDharma Productions
Release date
  • 26 January 2012 (2012-01-26)
Running time
167 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTemplate:Film Hindi
Budget₹62 crore (US$7.4 million)
Box office₹205 crore (US$25 million)[1]

Agneepath (English: Path of Fire) is a 2012 Indian epic action thriller film produced by Karan Johar. It is a remake of the 1990 film of the same name and is directed by Johar's former assistant Karan Malhotra. Though publicized as a remake; the film borrows only the basic plot of the original, while making the characters and incidents completely different. The title of the film is taken from a poem of the same name called 'Agneepath'[2] which was penned by Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Amitabh's father, and is recited at the beginning of the movie and creates a thematic link that continues through the movie, particularly in the climax, both literally and metaphorically.

While Hrithik Roshan plays the lead role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, Sanjay Dutt plays the role of the main antagonist Kancha Cheena, originally played by Amitabh Bachchan and Danny Denzongpa respectively.[3] The film stars Priyanka Chopra as the female lead. Other members of the cast include Rishi Kapoor playing a newly introduced negative character, Om Puri and Zarina Wahab among others.[4][5][6] The award winning character of Krishnan Iyer M.A played by Mithun Chakraborty in the original has been totally done away with. Shooting of the film mostly took place in Diu and Mumbai's film city. Originally slated for release on 20 January, Agneepath was postponed by a week to 26 January 2012, making it a Republic Day release. Upon release, the film broke the highest opening day collections record and became a critical and commercial success, unlike the original.[7][8]

Cast

Plot

The story opens in an island village of Mandwa. The school teacher of the village,Dinanath Chauhan (Chetan Pandit),who is highly respected by the villagers tries to dissuade them from giving away their lands on lease to Kancha Cheena (Sanjay Dutt),the son of the village head who plans to start a drug mafia.Knowing this,Kancha decides to get rid of the school teacher.He devices a plan which agitates the villagers against the school teacher.Kancha,with the support of the villagers kills the teacher by hanging him to death from a tree which is witnessed by young Vijay Chauhan (Hrithik Roshan),the son of the teacher.Vijay Chauhan along with his pregnant mother Suhasini Chauhan (Zarina Wahab) leaves the village.Destitute, they find shelter in the city of Mumbai but Vijay keeps the fire to go back to Mandwa and kill Kancha burning.While in Mumbai,Vijay Chauhan's mother delivers a baby girl named Shiksha.Vijay Chauhan is attracted to Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor),a local girl trafficker,drug lord and importantly an anti of Kancha and wants to get into his company.During this period,he testifies in favour of Rauf Lala and kills a cop.Eventually he is joined into the gang by Rauf Lala.Meanwhile,his mother along with his baby sister leaves Vijay because she thinks he was wasted by the thought of taking revenge for his father's death. Vijay through the years,works for Rauf Lala and finds himself as a trusted worker for the drug lord.Meanwhile,he also does several charity activities on the name of his sister.Once inspector and now commissioner,Gaitonde (Om Puri) acts as a silent guardian for Vijay and tries to eliminate crime in the Mumbai city.During the time when Rauf's influence over the drug business in Mumbai is falling,Kancha decides to grow his influence as a drug lord in the city and sends one of his men over to Mumbai for the process.Vijay with the help of the commissioner disrupts this plan and is lauded by Lala.He further gains the trust of Lala by taking a bullet shot which was thought was aimed for Lala's son but is later revealed as a conspiracy involving Vijay and the man kancha sent over to Mumbai to whom Vijay offers to help Kancha in expanding his drug business in Mumbai. On the night of his marriage,Lala's son Mazhar Lala (Rajesh Tandon) gets the information that the shot was fired by Kancha's man and along with Vijay leaves to end him in the process of which is shot dead by Kancha's man right in front of Vijay who is unmoved.Vijay later shoots the killer for leaving the evidence of their conspired plan.Lala on seeing his son dead falls sick and is admitted into a hospital unconscious.In the meantime,Vijay takes the place of Lala and stops all the crimes committed by Lala's gang.He then is then contacted by Kancha.He accepts Kancha's offer and goes to Mandwa for a business deal.While in Mandwa,Vijay puts his deal in front of Kancha which is handing over the drug business in Mumbai over to Kancha and in return taking Mandwa.Though Kancha initially suspects this deal, he later agrees on the condition that the commissioner must be killed. Meanwhile back in Mumbai,Lala regains health and knows the truth behind his son's death.He gets hold of Vijay's sister Shiksha(Kanika Tiwari) and calls out for her sale in public to one who bids the most.Vijay is notified of this by Kancha and he flees back to Mumbai and kills Lala after which he gets closer to his family.In the meantime,Kancha sents a man to assasinate the commissioner.This man identifies Vijay to be the son of the teacher killed by Kancha and reports this to Kancha.This man while trying to assasinate the commisioner is killed by Vijay.The commisioner later warns Vijay to be careful as Kancha posed him a threat.Vijay then marries his love interest Kaali (Priyanka Chopra)who is killed right after their marriage during a shooting spree by Kancha's men. Vijay leaves for Mandwa to avenge the death of his father and his wife by killing Kancha and on the otherhand,Kancha gets hold of Vijay's mother and sister and brings them to Mandwa.During the final showdown,Vijay bearing a couple of initial stabbings from Kancha garners energy and kills Kancha by hanging him from the same tree to which his father was hanged to. Finally, Vijay succumbs to his injuries and breaths his last in the hands of his mother.

Production

Development

In an interview with The Times Of India, Karan Johar explained that he had the intention of remaking the original Agneepath ever since the film released 22 years ago, because according to him, the commercial failure of the film broke his father's heart. The idea of the remake materialized on the sets of Johar's film My Name Is Khan in which Karan Malhotra was an associate director. Johar told Malhotra his desire to remake the original film and asked him to revisit it again for which he agreed immediately.[9]

According to the art director Sabu Cyril, Mandwa and Diu, the villages where the events of the film take place were chosen because they were completely isolated from the urban areas. A big haveli like structure with tantric paintings on the walls, resembling an old fort built by the Portuguese (who had historically occupied Diu) was created as the den of film's main antagonist Kancha Cheena which was later recreated in Mumbai to shoot the song Chikni Chameli. Vijay's (main protagonist) shelter, a small sack-like thing on the terrace in a chawl was built on some open ground with a hundred houses.[10]

Casting and filming

Debutant director Karan Malhotra and Karan Johar approached Hrithik Roshan in 2010 for the lead role of protogonist Vijay Deenanath Chauhan. He agreed to the play the role even before he finished hearing the script.[11] Priyanka Chopra was cast as Kaali Gawde, the female lead. Sanjay Dutt was signed on to play the character of Kancha Cheena, the main antagonist.[3] The award winning character of Krishnan Iyer M.A., originally played by Mithun Chakraborty was totally done away with and rather a completely new negative character, Rauf Lala was introduced and was played by actor Rishi Kapoor.[5] Other members of the cast include Om Puri & Zarina Wahab. Actress Katrina Kaif was approached to do an item number for the film, which she eventually agreed.[12]

Initially, Karan Malhotra approached Sikander Kher for the role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan as he wanted a fresh and strong face for the portrayal of Vijay. However, Sikander turned it down due to his prior commitment to Players.

Filming started in January 2011. The entire film was shot in Diu with a few scenes shot in a mill in Mumbai. Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt both undertook a strict exercise regime to gain muscles for the film. On October 18 it was reported that Hrithik Roshan had injured himself during shooting and thus the shooting was delayed by 15 days.

Marketing

The first look of Hrithik Roshan's character was revealed on July 5, 2011. Producer Karan Johar posted a link on Twitter to Agneepath's Facebook page, which contained an image of Hrithik as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan. The Dharma Productions team planted the first theatrical trailer of the film with the prints of Bodyguard, which released on August 29, 2011 and the second theatrical trailer was circulated with the prints of Don 2 which released on December 23, 2011.

Soundtrack

All the songs are composed by the duo Ajay-Atul while lyrics are penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya.[13] The item song "Chikni Chameli" is a remake of the Marathi song "Kombdi Palali" composed by Ajay-Atul for the Marathi movie Jatra, the song features Katrina Kaif, Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt.[14]

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Track listing
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Chikni Chameli"Shreya Ghoshal05:03
2."O Saiyyan"Roop Kumar Rathod04:38
3."Gun Gun Guna"Udit Narayan, Sunidhi Chauhan04:36
4."Shah Ka Rutba"Sukhwinder Singh, Anand Raj Anand, Krishna Beura05:23
5."Abhi Mujh Main Kahin"Sonu Nigam06:04
6."Deva Shree Ganesha"Ajay Gogavale05:56

Reception

The music of Agneepath got positive reviews from some of the top reviewers. Joginder Tuteja gave 3.5 stars, quoting "Chikni Chameli would be a good enough reason to set up brisk sales for the album.".[15] Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and said that the film's music was "promising".[16] "After a couple of false starts earlier this year, Ajay Atul have truly arrived in Bollywood with Agneepath", said Music Aloud which rated it 8.5/10.[17]

Critical Reception

 Review Scores
Source Rating
Bollywood Hungama
Indian-Asian News Service
India Today
DNA India
NDTV
Daily Bhaskar
The Times of India
Rediff
Now Running
Hindustan Times
Sify
CNN-IBN

The film opened to highly positive reviews from critics. According to review aggregator Review Gang, professional critics have given the film a rating of 6.5 stars out of 10.[7] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film a score of 4.5 out of 5, and said "Agneepath is an uncomplicated story of revenge, is hard-hitting yet entertaining, dwells on strong emotions and aggressive and forceful action, yet is dissimilar from the original. ... It is a fitting tribute to the masterwork."[18] Subhash K.Jha of Indo-Asian News Service gave it 4 out of 5 stars, pointing "Every component of the film falls into place, with a resounding thump. Agneepath is brilliant in its brutality. It's a riveting and hectic homage to the spirit of the cinema when revenge reigned supreme. And content was king. This new Agneepath takes us back to the era when there was no computer or cellphones. And communication with the audience was immediate and electrifying."[19] Kaveree Bamzai of India Today rated the movie 4 out of 5, noting "Melodramatic, choir-inducing sentiment, ecstatic.Agneepath is that rare mainstream movie written well."[20] Aniruddha Guha of DNA India gave the film 3.5 out of 5, reviewing "An adaptation rather than a remake, the film assumes a life of its own once the central plot has been established... the film then charts a journey of his own."[21] Piyali Dasgupta of NDTV gave it 3.5 out of 5, stating "Watch this film because this one is unadulterated Bollywood entertainment."[22] Daily Bhaskar gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, adding "On the whole, Agneepath totally rests on star power which will lure the cine-goers to halls but how far will it impress them remains to be seen."[23] Avijit Ghosh of The Times of India gave the film 3 stars out of 5, and said, "Try to wipe out the movie's earlier version from your mind. You might find it more enjoyable."[24] Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave the movie 3 out of 5, commenting "Agneepath, less of a remake, more of a tribute. The makers of Agneepath should have just called it Dharmapath."[25] Mansha Rastogi of Now Running gave the movie 3 out of 5 stars, writing that "Much against some flaws, Agneepath deserves to be lauded for performances and should be encouraged for a very convincing remake to a cult classic."[26] Mayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times gave the movie 3 out of 5 stars remarking "This is the kind of genuine theatre experience, now getting rare, which remains most precious in the life of a film-goer. Reason can take over later. I had a ball!"[27] Sonia Chopra of Sify gave the movie 3 out of 5, mentioning "Debut director Karan Malhotra shows great promise in making the film visually arresting and maintaining the consistency of performances. But remaking a cult film means you have big shoes to fill. If you’re a loyalist of the late Mukul Anand’s Agneepath, you’re likely to have reservations with this one. But if you leave the comparisons aside and are willing to forgive the faults, Agneepath is worth a watch essentially to savor Hrithik’s performance."[28] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the Agneepath 3 out of 5, said "It is in the end, an old-fashioned revenge drama treated in that melodramatic, over-the-top style. You're not likely to be bored by the intense action and the solid performances, but prepare to be exhausted by just how long this film plays on."[29]

Box office

India

Agneepath collected ₹21.75 crore (US$2.6 million) on the opening day.[30] Agneepath grossed ₹62.11 crore (US$7.4 million) nett over its extended four-day weekend.[31] The film's collections held very well on Monday and it netted around ₹7.50 crore (US$900,000), taking its five-day total to ₹69.50 crore (US$8.3 million) nett.[32] It further did well and grossed ₹6.50 crore (US$780,000) nett on Tuesday and another ₹5.00 crore (US$600,000) nett on Wednesday.[33] The movie brought its first-week total to ₹85.88 crore (US$10 million) nett.[34] The film collected ₹23.12 crore (US$2.8 million) in its second week, thus taking its two-week total to ₹109 crore (US$13 million) nett.[35] The film collected ₹7.59 crore (US$910,000) nett in its third week, taking its three-week nett collections to ₹116.59 crore (US$14 million).[36] Agneepath collected ₹2.61 crore (US$310,000) in its fourth week, taking its four-week nett collections to ₹119.20 crore (US$14 million).[37] The movie was declared a super hit by Box Office India[38] Agneepath collected ₹120.06 crore (US$14 million) in it's lifetime run and is currently the fifth highest grossing bollywood movie.[39]

Overseas

After a successful opening in the domestic market, Agneepath made ₹16.5 crore (US$2.0 million) in its four day weekend overseas.[40] The film recorded the 12th largest opening overseas and was marginally behind the other Hrithik Roshan starrer, Dhoom 2.[41]

See also

References

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