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When the original Agneepath directed by Mukul Anand released in 1990, it was a box-office disaster. In the next couple of decades that have followed, the film, its hero, its villain, dialogues everything achieved a cult status. Reason – Mukul Anand’s epic was ahead of its times.

If you have watched Agneepath released this year, chances are you won’t remember its hero, its villain or any of its dialogues after a couple of weeks. Reason – Karan Malhotra’s remake is just the latest cash-in offering from Bollywood’s assembly line production of masala action Hindi films. If you are a fan of the old Agneepath or eve remotely like it, you will find it hard trudging through these freshly laid fiery lines. And even if you have not seen the original and don’t care much for that one, you are likely to find the new 2012 Agneepath overlong, largely lackluster and unnecessarily violent.

Need to mention here about Priyanka Chopra too. In terms of the screen duration, her name should appear 6^th or 7^th in the credits. She rings in the songs which are as redundant as her. The same, of course, can not be said about either Katrina Kaif or her Chikni Chameli, which completely shakes things up in the extremely slow second half.

Before going to comparison you might want to ask – why compare? Because if you want to cash in on the brand, you have to weather the thorns of comparison.

Agneepath – Old and New (Remake)

When Mukul Anand’s Agneepath opens, we see Vijay’s sister as a little girl but in Karan Malhotra’s Agneepath, Vijay’s mother, acted by Zarina Wahab, is pregnant at the start of the film and gives birth to Vijay’s sister Siksha in Mumbai, after they have been thrown out of Mandwa.
Since Siksha is a 15-year old girl when the Agneepath action actually takes off, she does not need a love interest and so, there is Krishnan Iyer MA nariyel paaniwaala. Mithun Chakraborty’s memorable award-winning character, who pops up every time Vijay’s life is in danger, is well, a history.
While Amitabh Bachchan appears 25 minutes into the original Agneepath, Hrithik Roshan appears only after 45 minutes in the remake. The extra 25 minutes in the first act of the new Agneepath really test your patience.
The first appearance of Hrithik Roshan’s Vijay in Agneepath 2012 is not the big thing like Amitabh Bachchan’s Vijay was. He is the right hand man of Mumbai’s don Rauf Lala – a character introduced in this film and played by Rishi Kapoor with aplomb – and is always scheming his way to the top of the crime chain.
Vijay Chauhan’s love affair in the new Agneepath is not with a hospital nurse Mary (played by Madhavi, a super actress in the South in the 1990s) but his childhoods love from his Dongri chawl, Kali (Priyanka Chopra).
Kancha Cheena is not a business associate of Dinkar Rao, the Mandwa zamindaar, in Agneepath of 2012. He is the son. The father-son relationship makes a huge difference in the new film.
All the so-called iconic scenes – including Vijay’s introduction scene at the police station, the Vijay-Kancha meeting on the Mauritius beach, the climatic mother-son healing scene – are left out in a bid to create new legendary moments!!
Instead of Archana Puran Singh’s Laila in Agneepath of 1990, there is Katrina Kaif’s Chikni Chameli. Cheers!

Keywords: Agneepath, film, Amitabh Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Vijay, Chikni Chameli, Karan Malhotra, Mukul Anand