Big B starrer Agneepath itself is not a flawless movie but it has some beautiful moments. Besides being a revenge drama, the movie made in 1990 was also an attempt to exploit the then larger than life image of Amitabh Bachchan.
The character of Vijay Dinanath Chouhan in a way was an extension of Vijay Verma of Deewar. Through Agneepath, Mukul Anand tried to explore Vijay Verma of Deewar in isolation and in different time. Overtly Agneepath is a revenge drama but basically it’s a story of a protagonist with a noble mind, who due to unfortunate circumstances in his life leads the wrong path and till the end of his life struggles to restore his life to the right morale note.
In this context the moral conflict between Vijay’s mother and Vijay set in Deewar also is also the essence of the Big B starrer Agneepath. Revenge is the spine of the film but the soul of the film is the moral conflict of Vijay Dinanath Chouhan. You take away the moral conflict from the film and the film loses all its beautiful moments.
I think Karan Malhotra’s Agneepath commits the mistake of bypassing the moral conflict and loses its soul. In Karan Malhotra’s Agneepath, the character of Vijay’s mother, Suhasini Chouhan, is portrayed as insignificant one. After losing her husband she comes to unknown city of Mumbai and just because Vijay is leading the wrong path, she drives him away from home. As both the central characters part their ways the moral conflict automatically loses its intensity and the whole experience of watching the film turns into an ‘Agony-path’.
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