Agneepath Remake: Hrithik-Priyanka to play most intense passion!

Agneepath Remake: Hrithik-Priyanka to play most intense passion!: Karan Johar promises passion play like never before between Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra in his upcoming remake of Agneepath, which he will produce.

The movie will have Hrithik reprising the role of the angry man immortalized by Amitabh Bachchan in the original film by Mukul Anand. Priyanka, however, will not play a nurse, Big B’s love interest in the original played by Madhavi. There have been rumours that Priyanka’s character has been changed from a nurse to a prostitute, but Karan Johar denies it.

What he confirms emphatically is that there’s going to be a smouldering chemistry between Hrithik and Priyanka in the film.

“The new 'Agneepath' is first and foremost an intense love story. There was love between Priyanka and Hrithik in 'Krissh'. But here we want an unparalleled intensity between them. You've never seen Priyanka and Hrithik get so intense with anyone before,” Karan Johar is quoted as saying by a news agency.

The original film, made in 1990, was produced by Karan’s dad Yash Johar.

Priyanka Chopra to go for a sex laborer!

Priyanka Chopra to go for a sex laborer!: From a nurse to a sex worker, it could be the most radical character overhaul in modern Hindi cinema.

Karan Johar's remake of the 1990 picture Agneepath, starring Hrithik Roshan, is surely set up to be a hellfire lot special from the Mukul Anand picture that got Amitabh Bachchan a National Award. We catch that to make the picture engaging the present day film devotee, Karan has chosen to dump the element of the nurse took on by Madhavi in the first and trade it with a dim complexioned sex laborer.

Whoa! That’s some character transformation.

But here’s the clincher. Karan has reportedly zeroed down on Priyanka Chopra to play the role. We hear that PC will play a prostitute named Kaali in the remake.

Just a few weeks back, Karan had said that he can’t envision PC playing a nurse. Now we know what he had on his mind.

Agneepath Remake Movie: Hrithik Roshan play a lead role

Hirthik Roshan

Agneepath Remake Movie: Hrithik Roshan play a lead role: Agneepath, a remake of the similarly titled 1990 film headlining Amitabh Bachchan, will start production early next year.

The film will be produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Production which under Karan's late father, Yash Johar, had produced the original directed by Mukul Anand.

Karan tells TOI that by making Agneepath he will be fulfilling a promise that he made to his father.

The film won Amitabh Bachchan a national award but bombed at the box office, something Yash Johar couldn't reconcile to.

"Karan, we must remake Agneepath," Yash told Karan.

After his father passed away, Karan couldn't see himself directing the remake, so when his assistant in My Name is Khan, Karan Malhotra, offered to direct the film Karan was immediately ready to produce it.

The film will headline Hrithik as Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, the role essayed by Bachchan in the original.

"Duggu has heard the script and he loved it. He is as thrilled about this film as Karan (Malhotra) and I are," Johar tells TOI.

Johar says he will announce the rest of the cast shortly. The buzz is that Priyanka Chopra will be the female lead as Hrithik's love interest; Nana Patekar will fill in for Danny Denzongpa as the villainous Kancha Cheena.

Mithun Chakraborty's role as Krishnan Iyer MA is being dropped from the film. Instead, a new character will be introduced in the first half of the film. The role is being offered to one of Bollywood's finest actors. (How many such actors are there, we wonder?)