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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name =Agneepath
| name =Agneepath
| image = Agneepath poster.jpg
| image = [[File:Srk kissing.jpg|Srk kissing]]
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| caption = Shahrukh Khan caught during sting operation
| director = Karan Malhotra
| director = Karan Malhotra
| producer = [[Karan Johar]]
| producer = [[Karan Johar]]

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Agneepath
Srk kissing
Shahrukh Khan caught during sting operation
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
  • January 26, 2012 (2012-01-26)
CountryTemplate:Film India
LanguageTemplate:Film Hindi
Budget₹62 crore (US$7.4 million)[1]

Agneepath (Hindi: अग्निपथ; English: Path of Fire) is a 2012 Indian Hindi action thriller film produced by Karan Johar. It is a remake of a 1990 film of the same name and is directed by Johar's former assistant Karan Malhotra. 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.[2] 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.[3][4][5] 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. Agneepath released on 26 January 2012 to positive reviews from critics.

Plot

The story opens in an island Maharashtrian 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.He then proceeds to put a false blame of raping a student on Master Dinanath Chavan and executes him in full public view by hanging him to banyan tree.This forces the 12 years old Vijay and his mom to flee the town and they reach Mumbai where his mom gives birth to a baby girl. In Mumbai the young Vijay sees Kancha and as events pan out becomes an accomplice of Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor) as Rauf has clash with Kancha. Vijay tries to seek help and power of Lala to be powerful and get hands on Kancha to take revenge one day.

By the time Lala becomes sole Drug Mafia of the city and keeps on running the business of selling the young girls. Police officer Gaitonde (Om Puri) manages to debar Kancha from interfering in Mumbai but can not get proofs against Lala or Vijay.

Lala's son Mazhar Lala (Rajesh Tandon)is a freak who very much conflicts his business and personal agendas. Mazhar hates Vijay for being a stronghold on Lala's business. He expresses his disgusts towards Vijay to Lala. But Lala consoles him saying, let Vijay handle their business and Mazhar be an observer ,and when time permits, they should finish Vijay.

Vijay plays double cross by holding home secretary Borkar(Sachin Khedekar) to ransom, who is Kancha China's aid; and threatens Shantaram another aid of Kancha to be a middleman between Vijay and Kancha to have trades of cocaine to Mumbai from Mandwa. He sets up a plan to win trust of Lala and Mazhar when he takes a shot on himself and portrays as a savior of Mazhar.

On the night of his marriage,Lala's son Mazhar Lala 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 Shantaram right in front of Vijay who is unmoved and already knows the plot. Vijay later shoots Shantaram as he no longer needs him as he had already sent a message to Kancha and also for not 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. He 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 Gaitonde 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 who had exiled him since the day he had joined Lala's group after killing inspector aid of Kancha when he was 12 years old.In the meantime,Kancha sends a man (the same person who had set Vijay's house on fire in Mandwa 15 years ago and was the real rapist of the student) to keep an eye on Vijay and as he finds Vijay to be considerate towards commissioner and is asked to assassinate the commissioner.This man while trying to assassinate the commissioner is murdered by Vijay in Ganesh Visarjan event. Vijay's mother Suhasini sees the news of this in the paper saying she knew this person as a Mandwa citizen and goes to the police; identifying her and Vijay as citizens of Mandwa. A mole in the police informs Kancha of this. The commissioner 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 other hand,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 by reciting the poem "Agneepath", which his father had previously told him would give him strength. Vijay, reciting the poem, kills Kancha by hanging him from the same banyan tree to which his father was hanged to. Finally, Vijay succumbs to his injuries and breaths his last in the lap of his mother, while seeing a vision of his childhood.

Cast

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, 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.[6]

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.[7]

Casting and filming

Debutant director Karan Malhotra and Karan Johar approached Hrithik Roshan in 2010 instead of the more obvious choice of Abhishek Bachchan[8] as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan. He agreed to the play the role even before he finished hearing the script.[9] Actress Genelia D'Souza was originally considered to play the female lead but the part eventually went to Priyanka Chopra.[10][3][5] Sanjay Dutt was signed on to play the character of Kancha, the main antagonist.[2] 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 of Rauf Lala was introduced and to be played by actor Rishi Kapoor.[4] 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.[11]

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 muscle 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 Dinanath 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.[12] The 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.[13]

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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 rave reviews from some of the top reviewers of Tinsel Town. Joginder Tuteja gave 4.5 stars, quoting" Chikni Chameli would be a good enough reason to set up brisk sales for the album. ".[14] Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and said that the film's music was "promising".[15] "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. [16]

Reception

The movie opened to positive reviews from critics. According to review aggregator Review Gang, professional critics have given the film a rating of 7 out of 10.[17]

Critical reception

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. The movie has all the potential to scale dizzy heights of victory and catapult Hrithik Roshan as the newest member of the 100 cr Club, besides providing the Hindi film industry with the first giant Blockbuster of 2012. A definite winner!".[18] Subhash K.Jha of IANS 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 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] Sukanya Varma of Rediff gave it 3 out of 5, commenting "Agneepath, less of a remake, more of a tribute. The makers of Agneepath should have just called it Dharmapath."[24] Mansha Rastogi of Nowrunning gave the movie 3 out of 5 stars, wrote 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."[25] 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!"[26] Sonia Chopra of Sify gave it 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."[27] Rajeev Masand of IBN Live 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." [28]

Box Office

Agneepath collected ₹21.76 crore (US$2.6 million) nett on its opening day, thus breaking the record set by Bodyguard.[29] The film also set new circuit records in Mumbai, CP Berar, Nizam, and Mysore.[30] However, the film witnessed an unprecedented fall on its second day, dropping by almost 50%, and collected ₹11 crore (US$1.3 million) nett.[31] The film managed to recover a bit on Saturday and netted around ₹12.50 crore (US$1.5 million).[32]

See also

References

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