When his father is lynched by a mob after being framed by a gangster, a young boy leaves his village along with his pregnant mother and flees to Mumbai. He takes up a life of crime and swears to avenge his father. A remake of the 1990 film.
Agneepath is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action crime film produced by Hiroo Johar and her son Karan Johar under Dharma Productions and directed by Karan Malhotra in his directorial debut. Adaptation of the 1990 film of the same name directed by Mukul S. Anand and starring Amitabh Bachchan, it centers on a screenplay written by Malhotra and Ila Dutta Bedi, with dialogues written by Piyush Mishra. The film stars Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt along with Rishi Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Om Puri and Zarina Wahab in supporting roles. Similar to the original, in the film, Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, a common man from the island village of Mandwa who seeks revenge for his father's humiliation and murder at the hands of Kancha Cheena ; in the process, he befriends Rauf Lala, an underworld gangster, and falls in love with a loquacious girl, Kaali Gawde.