Agneepath (Hindi: अग्निपथ; English: Path of Fire) is a 2012 Indian Hindi 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.
Plot
The story opens in island Mandwa, near Maharashtra in the year 1977.
The highly respected school master of the village, Master Deenanath
Chauhan (Chetan Pandit), tries to dissuade the villagers 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. In turn,
Kancha falsely accusing Master of raping a student, executes him in full
public view by hanging him to a banyan tree. This forces the 12 year
old Master's son Vijay and his mother to flee the town and reach Mumbai,
where his mother gives birth to a baby girl. In Mumbai the young Vijay
sees Kancha and as events pan out, he becomes an accomplice of Kancha's
enemy Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor). Vijay gains help and support from Lala to gain power.
After 15 years, Lala monopolizes in drugs dealings of the city along
with running a business of human trafficking. Police commissionaire
Gaitonde (Om Puri)
manages to debar Kancha from interfering in Mumbai but is unable to
collect evidence against Lala or Vijay. Lala's son Mazhar Lala (Rajesh
Tandon)is a volatile person who conflicts his business and personal
agendas. Mazhar hates Vijay for his stronghold on Lala's business. He
expresses his disgusts towards Vijay to Lala. But Lala convinces him to
be an observer of Vijay for a while and accordingly they would finish
him later.
Vijay (Hrithik Roshan) holds Kancha's aide and home secretary Borkar (Sachin Khedekar)
to ransom, and threatens Shantaram, another aid of Kancha to be a
middleman between him and Kancha to conduct trades of cocaine to Mumbai
from Mandwa. On one instance, he takes a bullet on himself fired on
Mazhar, thereby winning trust of Lala and Mazhar. On the night of his
marriage, Mazhar gets the information that the shot was actually fired
by Shantaram. He, along with Vijay, leaves to end him but in turn is
shot dead by Shantaram in the process. Vijay later shoots Shantaram for
he no longer needs him and any evidence of their conspired plan of
killing Mazhar. Seeing his son dead, Lala falls sick and is admitted
into a hospital. Meanwhile, Vijay takes hold of the position of Lala and
is soon contacted by Kancha. He accepts Kancha's offer and goes to
Mandwa for a business deal. While in Mandwa, Vijay puts forth his deal
to Kancha which is handing over the drug business in Mumbai to Kancha
and in return of taking over Mandwa. Though Kancha initially suspects
this deal, he later agrees on the condition that the commissioner
Gaitonde must be killed.
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 auction in public. Notified by Kancha, Vijay flees
back to Mumbai and kills Lala and his men with the help of eunuchs. He
gets closer to his family who had exiled him since the day he joined
Lala's group after killing the inspector aid of Kancha at the age of 12.
In the meantime, Kancha sends a man (the same person who had set
Vijay's house on fire in Mandwa 15 years ago and the real rapist of the
student) to keep an eye on Vijay. Kancha orders the man to assassinate
the commissioner if Vijay is unable to do so. This man while trying to
kill the commissioner is murdered by Vijay on the event of Ganesh Visarjan. Vijay's mother Suhasini (Zarina Wahab)
identifies this person as a Mandwa native and informs police,
identifying herself and Vijay as natives of Mandwa. A mole in the police
informs Kancha of this. Vijay marries his love interest Kaali (Priyanka Chopra) who is killed right after their marriage during a shooting spree by Kancha's men.
Enraged Vijay leaves for Mandwa to avenge the death of his father and
his wife. Meanwhile, Kancha gets hold of Vijay's mother and sister and
brings them to Mandwa. During his violent fight with Kancha, Vijay is
initially brutally wounded and stabbed, but later garners energy by
reciting the poem "Agneepath", which his father had previously taught
him to give him strength. Vijay, reciting the poem, kills Kancha by
hanging him from the same banyan tree to which his father was hanged.
Vijay finally comes to peace with himself and has a vision of his
younger self with his father reciting Agneepath and succumbs to his
injuries.
Cast
- Hrithik Roshan as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan
- Priyanka Chopra as Kaali Gawde
- Sanjay Dutt as Kancha
- Rishi Kapoor as Rauf Lala
- Om Puri as Commissioner Gaitonde
- Zarina Wahab as Suhasini Chauhan
- Rajesh Tandon as Mazhar Lala
- Sachin Khedekar as Home secretary, an aide of Kancha
- Deven Bhojani as Azhar Lala, young mentally challenged son of Rauf Lala
- Chetan Pandit as Master Deenanath Chavhan
- Arish Bhiwandiwala as Young Vijay Deenanath Chavhan
- Kanika Tiwari as Shiksha Chauhan
- Rajesh Vivek as a police who is an aid of Kancha
- Madhurjeet Sarghi as Lachhi
- Katrina Kaif in a special appearance in and as "Chikni Chameli"
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 to play the female lead . Sanjay Dutt was signed on to play the character of Kancha, 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 of Rauf Lala was introduced and to be 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 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 Agneepaths 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.[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.
| Track listing | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Chikni Chameli" | Shreya Ghoshal | 05:03 | ||||||
| 2. | "O Saiyyan" | Roop Kumar Rathod | 04:38 | ||||||
| 3. | "Gun Gun Guna" | Udit Narayan, Sunidhi Chauhan | 04:36 | ||||||
| 4. | "Shah Ka Rutba" | Sukhwinder Singh, Anand Raj Anand, Krishna Beura | 05:23 | ||||||
| 5. | "Abhi Mujh Main Kahin" | Sonu Nigam | 06:04 | ||||||
| 6. | "Deva Shree Ganesha" | Ajay Gogavale | 05:56 | ||||||
Reception
The music of Agneepath got rave reviews from some of the top
reviewers of Tinsel Town. 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
The movie opened to highly positive reviews from critics. According
to review aggregator Review Gang, professional critics have given the
film a rating of 6.5 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 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 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] The Times of India
too gave the film 3.5 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 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."[25]Kunal
Guha of Yahoo.com gave the movie 3 out of 5 stars, saying that " The
biggest dilemma of remaking a movie is how much to retain and what to
retain. If the new story takes violent shifts, you lose the audience who
came to revisit the original. If you photocopy scene-by-scene, you risk
failing to connect with the audience who is accustomed to present
sensibilities. The only safe bet: a ‘khichdi’ of the past and the
present, like this one."[26] Mansha Rastogi of Nowrunning 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."[27] 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!"[28] 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."[29] 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."[30]
Box Office
India
Agneepath collected 
21.75 crore (US$4.34 million) on the opening day, breaking the record of the first day collections of Bodyguard. The film also set new circuit records in Mumbai, CP Berar, Nizam, and Mysore.[31] Agneepath grossed 62.11 crore (US$12.39 million) nett over its extended four-day weekend.[32]
21.75 crore (US$4.34 million) on the opening day, breaking the record of the first day collections of Bodyguard. The film also set new circuit records in Mumbai, CP Berar, Nizam, and Mysore.[31] Agneepath grossed 62.11 crore (US$12.39 million) nett over its extended four-day weekend.[32]
The film's collections held very well on Monday and it netted around 7.50 crore (US$1.5 million), taking its five-day total to 69.50 crore (US$13.87 million) nett.[33] It further did well and grossed 6.50 crore (US$1.3 million) nett on Tuesday and another 5.00 crore (US$1 million) nett on Wednesday.[34] In doing so, Agneepath brought its first week total to 85.88 crore (US$17.13 million) nett.[35] The film collected 23.12 crore (US$4.61 million) on its second week thus taking its 2 weeks total to 109 crore (US$21.75 million) nett.[36]. The film collected 7.59 Crore nett in its third week, taking it's three week nett colletions to 116.59 crore (US$23.26 million). [37] Agneepath collected 2.61 crore (US$520,695) in it's fourth week, taking it's four week nett collections to 119.20 crore (US$23.78 million).[38]On week five Agneepath collected 58 lakh (US$115,700)and taking it's five week nett collection to119.78 crore (US$23.9 million).[39] After six week Agneepath collected 17 lakh (US$33,900)and taking it's tally to119.92 crore (US$23.92 million).[40]It was declared a "Super Hit" by Box Office India[41]
7.50 crore (US$1.5 million), taking its five-day total to 69.50 crore (US$13.87 million) nett.[33] It further did well and grossed 6.50 crore (US$1.3 million) nett on Tuesday and another 5.00 crore (US$1 million) nett on Wednesday.[34] In doing so, Agneepath brought its first week total to 85.88 crore (US$17.13 million) nett.[35] The film collected 23.12 crore (US$4.61 million) on its second week thus taking its 2 weeks total to 109 crore (US$21.75 million) nett.[36]. The film collected 7.59 Crore nett in its third week, taking it's three week nett colletions to 116.59 crore (US$23.26 million). [37] Agneepath collected 2.61 crore (US$520,695) in it's fourth week, taking it's four week nett collections to 119.20 crore (US$23.78 million).[38]On week five Agneepath collected 58 lakh (US$115,700)and taking it's five week nett collection to119.78 crore (US$23.9 million).[39] After six week Agneepath collected 17 lakh (US$33,900)and taking it's tally to119.92 crore (US$23.92 million).[40]It was declared a "Super Hit" by Box Office India[41]Overseas
After a successful opening in the domestic market, Agneepath made 16.5 crore (US$3.29 million) in its four day weekend overseas.[42] The film recorded the 12th largest opening overseas and was marginally behind the other Hrithik Roshan starrer, Dhoom 2.[43] By the end of its second weekend the film managed to collect 26 crore (US$5.19 million).
16.5 crore (US$3.29 million) in its four day weekend overseas.[42] The film recorded the 12th largest opening overseas and was marginally behind the other Hrithik Roshan starrer, Dhoom 2.[43] By the end of its second weekend the film managed to collect 26 crore (US$5.19 million).
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