The entire 157 mins of Karan Johar's Agneepath made every minute, no every second count. Wait Wait. Dont get hopes jumping. It is not the illusion of excitement and twists and excellence of direction, that makes every moment worth of sitting through it. For the entire 157 mins I fought boredom, headache, fatigue, yawns, and seeking slightest indication of something interesting to happen in the plot.
The story was so filled with cliches of the typical early 90s films, that reminded me so much of Sunny Deol and Suniel Shetty times. The plot is so predictable, so are the 'so-called' twist. No, it's not predictable because certain points, the name of the film and characters, and the production house are same as 1990 Amitabh Bachchan starrer Agneepath. The film falls short of even being called the producer and director's tribute to the film, that I call a classic in its own way.
The film is a twisted tale of predictable lines.
Firstly the way in which Vijay Cauhan gets rid of Rauf Lal's son in hopes of gaining over his huge underbelly empire in Mumbai.
Secondly the part where 4 gun men open fire at Vijay and Kaali's wedding and gun down half of the party, and then Vijay single handed guns all 4 of them back, there and then.
Thirdly the part where Kaancha slams Vijay with swords and all in the climax drangs him and all, but still Vijay gets right back up for the last time to kill him and then die. Ok, this happened in the climax of old Agneepath as well, but believe me the way it is over exaggerated here its really reminds me of golden days, when an entire AK 47 was emptied yet he still gets up to kill the entire army of villains. The only hickup being that there hero would always survive.
There are a lot many twists in this story, but rarely did anything jolt me out of my state of somber fatigue. Come On Dude! I guess I would have been more happy if you would have even tried adapting the same story, should have done that one twist by twist, because no matter of shirtless Hrithik can make me forget the charisma of angry young man Amitabh from the old one.
Let's talk about the actors here. Hrithik Roshan seemed too cold as Vijay Deenanth Chauhan, Sunjay Dutt's look was something new and different but his acting was a bit too over the top, Om Puri lacked the convincing power of playing a police inspector/commissioner. Priyanka Chopra and rest of the female cast didnt have much to do and were completely props to fuel in more space for Hrithik. Rishi Kapoor's character was a new addition to the plot here, and he was the only one I found a bit okay. Though his look was too over the top and seeing Rishi as a villain doesnt naturally gets accepted by one's heart.
Ya that is one thing that I really found missing, the passion and anger of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan. Hrithik falls really really short in exuding the charm and magic of the character in the film. I dont know why but why has that 'angry young man' being done away with?? Why did K Jo not take chances at just dishing out the old script that was any time far more interesting and entertaining than this new 'so-called adaptation'. Even though you would have failed you would would have failed at matching that hit film, right now you just fail at 'paying a tribute' to that film, it's director and its script.
The dialogues of the film were a completely let down as mcuh as its screenplay. They were complete lackluster and too plain, for a film as powerful as this. The cinematography was not much impactful, and was fueled more by highly stylized sets that it failed to invoke any sense of connection to the places at all.
I dont care if the film is a huge Box Office success or commercial critics praise it to the T, but I would stick by my review. Because the critics and box office even went on to declare Ready and Bodyguard, but does that make those a good film in any way.....I sure hope Not.
All I can say in the Vijay Deenanath Chauhan sirf ek hi tha aur ek hi raheka.....
Agneepath (1990)
Agneepath (2012)
Director: Karan Malhotra
Agneepath (1990)
The story was so filled with cliches of the typical early 90s films, that reminded me so much of Sunny Deol and Suniel Shetty times. The plot is so predictable, so are the 'so-called' twist. No, it's not predictable because certain points, the name of the film and characters, and the production house are same as 1990 Amitabh Bachchan starrer Agneepath. The film falls short of even being called the producer and director's tribute to the film, that I call a classic in its own way.
The film is a twisted tale of predictable lines.
Firstly the way in which Vijay Cauhan gets rid of Rauf Lal's son in hopes of gaining over his huge underbelly empire in Mumbai.
Secondly the part where 4 gun men open fire at Vijay and Kaali's wedding and gun down half of the party, and then Vijay single handed guns all 4 of them back, there and then.
Thirdly the part where Kaancha slams Vijay with swords and all in the climax drangs him and all, but still Vijay gets right back up for the last time to kill him and then die. Ok, this happened in the climax of old Agneepath as well, but believe me the way it is over exaggerated here its really reminds me of golden days, when an entire AK 47 was emptied yet he still gets up to kill the entire army of villains. The only hickup being that there hero would always survive.
There are a lot many twists in this story, but rarely did anything jolt me out of my state of somber fatigue. Come On Dude! I guess I would have been more happy if you would have even tried adapting the same story, should have done that one twist by twist, because no matter of shirtless Hrithik can make me forget the charisma of angry young man Amitabh from the old one.
Let's talk about the actors here. Hrithik Roshan seemed too cold as Vijay Deenanth Chauhan, Sunjay Dutt's look was something new and different but his acting was a bit too over the top, Om Puri lacked the convincing power of playing a police inspector/commissioner. Priyanka Chopra and rest of the female cast didnt have much to do and were completely props to fuel in more space for Hrithik. Rishi Kapoor's character was a new addition to the plot here, and he was the only one I found a bit okay. Though his look was too over the top and seeing Rishi as a villain doesnt naturally gets accepted by one's heart.
Ya that is one thing that I really found missing, the passion and anger of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan. Hrithik falls really really short in exuding the charm and magic of the character in the film. I dont know why but why has that 'angry young man' being done away with?? Why did K Jo not take chances at just dishing out the old script that was any time far more interesting and entertaining than this new 'so-called adaptation'. Even though you would have failed you would would have failed at matching that hit film, right now you just fail at 'paying a tribute' to that film, it's director and its script.
The dialogues of the film were a completely let down as mcuh as its screenplay. They were complete lackluster and too plain, for a film as powerful as this. The cinematography was not much impactful, and was fueled more by highly stylized sets that it failed to invoke any sense of connection to the places at all.
I dont care if the film is a huge Box Office success or commercial critics praise it to the T, but I would stick by my review. Because the critics and box office even went on to declare Ready and Bodyguard, but does that make those a good film in any way.....I sure hope Not.
All I can say in the Vijay Deenanath Chauhan sirf ek hi tha aur ek hi raheka.....
Agneepath (2012)
Agneepath (2012)
Director: Karan Malhotra
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Om Puri
Screenplay: Ila Dutta Bedi, Karan MAlhotra
Editor: Akiv Ali
Producer: Dharma Productions
Running time: 157mins
Best Scenes: since I couldnt find anything much praise worth in this film....i kept going back to the original Agneepath in my mind (and no that is no reason for my prejudice to this film, believe me). So here are two of my best scenes from the Orginal 1990 Agneepath, that I think should have been referred to at lest, if to see the power of dialogues and dialogue delivery by the team behind new 2012 Agneepath.Agneepath (1990)
