1990’s ‘Agneepath’: flop at the box office but the most memorable and award-winning film of Amitabh Bachchan’s career

New Delhi. Amitabh Bachchan’s film Agneepath, released in the year 1990, could not be successful at the box office at that time, but later it got the status of a cult classic and Amitabh Bachchan also received the National Award for Best Actor for the same film. The film was directed by Mukul Anand and produced by Yash Johar. In the film, Amitabh Bachchan played the powerful character of ‘Vijay Dinanath Chauhan’, which is considered very popular among the audience even today.

The film was made on a budget of around Rs 2.85 crore to Rs 4 crore at that time and collected around Rs 10.25 crore, despite this it was considered a box office flop due to the production and distribution costs. Despite the earning figures, the film’s story, dialogues and Amitabh Bachchan’s performance were so impressive that it was later included in the list of classic films,

Many veteran actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Rohini Hattangadi, Danny Denzongpa, Tinu Anand, Alok Nath and Archana Puran Singh played important roles in the film. Mithun Chakraborty and Rohini Hattangadi also received the Filmfare Award for the film.

In the year 2012, a remake of this film was also made which was produced by Karan Johar in the memory of his father Yash Johar, in this new Agneepath, Hrithik Roshan played the role of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan while stars like Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra were seen, this remake proved to be a superhit at the box office.

Even today, 1990’s Agneepath is counted among the strongest and emotional films of Amitabh Bachchan’s career, which proved that even every flop film can become history with time.