Agneepath

Name: Agneepath (1990)

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Mukul S. Anand (Director)

Synopsis: Deenanath Chauhan is a school master in village Mandwa who has high moral grounds and is an honest man. His was teaching his son a poem named “Agneepath” the path of fire which everyone has to cross in his life. Deenanath is well loved and respected by the villagers. He wants that everyone including the child should be educated in the village and no one should be included in the bad deeds. But the Village headman doesn’t share the same opinion as he does. One day which playing with his friends and he saw a man named Kancha Cheena (Danny Denzongpa) arrives in the village meeting Village headman Dinkar Rao. He came to know that Kancha wants to make the village Mandwa into a drug trade centre as the village in not on the map of India and it will easier for him to do so. But he has to take down teacher Deenanath as he is the one who is causing hindrance in his plans. Dinkar Rao made a setup for Deenanath. With the help of the owner of the brothel he sets up Deenath and villagers seeing this beats teacher Denanath to death. His wife and both the child after so much humiliation went to Mumbai to start a new life.

He starts working on odd jobs for making his family living and as he grows old he came across the various harsh realities of life. One day when someone starts forcing with his mother his burns down his petrol pump. His bail is being given by four local goons who later on indulge him with themselves. Now Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) has grown old and now he is a gangster with class, style and most of things he has values for the poor people. One day when he refused to indulge with the drugs business of those four of his bosses, they tried to kill him. But a man named Krishnan (Mithun Chakraborty) saved him. When Vijay was recovering from hospital he secretly killed 2 of them. But as now Vijay is a gangster he was not liked by his mother and his sister doesn’t know much about him.

Later he tries to strike a deal with Kancha to let him enter in Mandwa so that both of them can do business. Kancha agrees to that but warns him that if he ever tries to cut his way, he will not spare him and in return for their partnership he gives him his 3^rd boss. Vijay on his wife advice slowly starts taking down Kancha by taking out his men one by one and gathering proofs against Kancha and later on helped police in taking down Kancha. Kancha was arrested. Meanwhile the last of the 4 bosses kidnaps Vijay’s sister. Krishnan with his last breath effort too was there with Vijay’s daughter to save him from his last boss and the fighting starts began between both of them. Vijay hearing this news and seeing that police also is not able to enter the place where his sister is being taken went in with his men with full force and eventually saved his sister, Krishnan and killed his last boss.

In a festival, Kancha’s men tries to kill Vijay but Krishnan came in between and he got badly hurt. Vijay took him to hospital and saw that his most faithful men is being shot dead as well as the only living proof/witness to be produced against Vijay is also killed by Kancha. Commissioner told Vijay that his mother, sister and wife as well as his child is being taken hostage by Kancha but he will do everything in his power to save him. Finally Vijay went to Mandwa village by himself. Kancha had made the traps for him in advance. Being torn out and bad shape, Vijay finally confronts Kancha. Houses were exploded and whole of the path was filled with fire. Kancha challenges Vijay to come across and if he dares saves his mother, his wife, his sister and his son. Krishnan too arrives there and starts shooting at Kancha’s men. Vijay starts running towards Kancha from that path of fire. Instead of being shot twice he fights with Kancha and eventually kills him. Now Vijay as being not being able to move as he is already shot twice too passes away across his mother saying “Agneepath” in an emotional context. In the end his mother was saying “My son is not a Gangster.”

Review: It is always said, some movies are just made great and this is one of them. Everything fits in its rightful place. Direction of Mukul S. Anand was just awesome. The way he has directed the movie was just great. Some performances are ever green and Amitabh Bachchan’s performance is one of them in this movie. His character in this movie lived alive. And in no way credit can be taken away from the Danny Denzongpa which is absolutely brilliance and with class. In this movie the hero and villain how they actually should be looked in the movie looks that way. Music of the movie just mind blowing suits to the context of the movie appropriately. Dialogues of the movie were great and rest of cast performance is also very good. A great movie is one where all the segments of the movie fit to its rightful place and everyone plays its part with equal importance. This movie has it all. People say Old is Gold. This had it.      

Stars given: 5 out of 5.