19: S06E19: Agneepath (1990) - Sexy, Angry Amitabh Bachchan

Our twitter friend, Sujoy of The Khaandaan Podcast, joins us today as we talk about Agneepath. Agneepath (English: The Path of Fire) is a 1990 Indian action-drama film[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agneepath_(1990_film)#cite_note-2) [3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agneepath_(1990_film)#cite_note-3) directed by Mukul Anand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukul_Anand) . It stars Amitabh Bachchan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan) as the protagonist Vijay Deenanath Chauhan along with Mithun Chakraborty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithun_Chakraborty) , Madhavi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhavi_(actress)) , Neelam Kothari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelam_Kothari) , Rohini Hattangadi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohini_Hattangadi) and Danny Denzongpa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Denzongpa) as the antagonist Kancha Cheena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancha_Cheena) . (Source: Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.

Podcast Episode Summary:

We talk about Amitabh's voice in this movie

We talk about how women were badly represented in this movie

We talk about how much a character's name plays a role in a movie

Quotables:

This was a big passion project for Dharma - Sujoy

It was like a bad Marlon Brando hangover - Tanvi

The background score in some the scenes were really nice - Flo