Amitabh Bachchan Hindi Movie Agneepath -

The 1990 Agneepath is not a film you "enjoy." It is a film you endure . It is two hours and fifty minutes of watching a good man slowly poison his own soul for a cause that will ultimately kill him.

Against this tide, director Mukul S. Anand (who had given Bachchan the stylish hit Hum earlier that year) decided to go darker. Much darker. He approached Bachchan with a script that had no songs in the first half, no comic relief, and a hero who commits murder in the first ten minutes. amitabh bachchan hindi movie agneepath

Agneepath was a gamble. It lost the gamble at the box office. But it won the war for cinematic legacy. Most revenge films end with the hero smiling. Agneepath ends with the hero bleeding out on a pier, whispering a lullaby. The 1990 Agneepath is not a film you "enjoy