Producer: Karan Johar
Director: Karan Malhotra
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor
Music: Ajay-Atul
Lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya
Genre: Drama
Recommended Audience: Adult
Film Released on: 26 January 2012
Storyline
Starting off in Mandwa, off the coast of Mumbai, the movie brings to surface schoolmaster Dinanath Chauhan, whose upright nature irks a lot of people, one of them being the power-hungry Kancha Cheena, who – Gita in hand – chants its holy verses in an almost satanic tone to abolish whatsoever he hates. Implicating him in a false case of rape, Cheena hangs Dinanath Chauhan in front of a horde of villagers, forcing his pregnant wife, Suhasini, and child, Vijay, to flee Mandwa. Landing in Mumbai, Vijay sees nothing but violence all around him. Still seething with the rage of his father’s murder, Vijay decides to play his own game of revenge, where life later comes full circle.So let’s get the more important matters straight for those people who have already seen the old Agneepath. Nurse Mary is out, bringing in Kaali (Priyanka Chopra) who is Vijay’s childhood friend and who loves him dearly and waits for him to reciprocate. Krishnan Iyer MA’s character (which gained Mithun Chakraborty a horde of accolades) is wiped out to introduce yet another sinister villain, Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor in his evil best yet) – and may I say, smart move, people. Apart from these important changes, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan here is what a normal, angst-ridden person should be like – angry, subdued, pained, and yet relatable. I like the fact that they’ve rubbed off all those dialogues that made Mr Bachchan famous (and gained him a National Award), and have replaced it with nothing but body language, elaborate expressions and a more conniving, calculative nature. Also, Vijay’s relationship with Inspector Gaitonde is beautifully woven into the narrative, because in the old one, I could only get a déjà vu with Amitabh Bachchan’s previous, more powerful, Shakti. Vijay’s vulnerability has also been portrayed well by Karan Malhotra – if an open minded viewer would get in without any bias, he would notice the major difference, all thanks to the intelligent writing by Malhotra and Ila Dutta Bedi.
Karan Malhotra looks like he knows his stuff really well. Some of the scenes are really well-directed, and it shows – as an example, we’ve got Vijay’s face-off with his mother Suhasini who reluctantly invites him over to dinner, and then asks him to get out. Vijay angrily takes the food to his plate and storms outside. As Kaali comes beside him to comfort him, all he does is point toward the plate, and tell her that that is what he’s been waiting for years. This scene reminded me of Hrithik Roshan in Lakshya and made me wonder – this guy has improved drastically! This director is a guy to watch out for and he’s got it in him to excel further if he makes all the right decisions in the future.
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