AGNEEPATH COMING TO LIBERTY

Much-hyped Bollywood action thriller Agneepath film produced by Karan Johar will be screened at Liberty Cinema, Colpetty from February 1.

The movie imported to Sri Lanka by ‘Event Concept' is a remake of a 1990 cult classic film of the same name and is directed by Johar's former assistant Karan Malhotra. While Hrithik Roshan plays the lead role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, Sanjay Dutt plays the role of the main antagonist Kancha Cheena, originally played by Amitabh Bachchan and Danny Denzongpa respectively.

The film stars Priyanka Chopra as the female lead. Other members of the cast include Rishi Kapoor playing a newly introduced negative character, Om Puri and Zarina Wahab among others. The award winning character of Krishnan Iyer M.A played by Mithun Chakraborty in the original has been totally done away with.

The story opens in an island village of Mandwa. The school teacher of the village, Dinanath Chauhan

(Chetan Pandit),who is highly respected by the villagers tries to dissuade them from giving away their lands on lease to Kancha Cheena (Sanjay Dutt),the son of the village head who plans to start a drug mafia.he then proceeds to put a false blame on Master Dinanath and executes him in full public view by hanging him from a tree.this forces the young Vijay and his mom to flee the town and they reach Bombay where his mom gives birth to a baby girl. In Mumbai the young Vijay sees Kancha and as events pan out becomes an accomplice of Lala (Rishi Kapoor).

On the night of his marriage, Lala's son Mazhar Lala (Rajesh Tandon)