Mumbai:
Filmmaker Karan Johar, who has donned the producer's hat for Agneepath, a remake of his father Yash Johar's 1990 film of the same name, says he cannot direct a script which has violence.
"All thanks to Karan (director Karan Malhotra), vengeance is looking beautiful in the film. If the opportunity to direct the film was given to me, I would not have been able to. I am incapable of doing it. I have done only one moment of action in my film, which was in Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, where Amitabh Bachchan slaps Hrithik... that is the only violent scene I have ever directed," Johar said after unveiling the first teaser of the film.
"We have violence in this movie with Hrithik, but this time it is a little more. It is overwhelming for Dharma Productions to have done something like this since my inception with 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'. With Agneepath it was all Karan (Malhotra)'s vision," he said.
Malhotra, a former assistant of Johar, is making his directorial debut with this film, in which Hrithik Roshan is reprising Bachchan's iconic role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan.
The original Agneepath was directed by Mukul Anand and starred Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhavi, Rohini Hattangadi and Danny Denzongpa.
"We had to retain the basic plot, the revenge factor. It starts in Mandwa and ends in Mandwa - besides that everything is new. There are structural changes," Malhotra said.
Agneepath is slated for release in January 2012.
"All thanks to Karan (director Karan Malhotra), vengeance is looking beautiful in the film. If the opportunity to direct the film was given to me, I would not have been able to. I am incapable of doing it. I have done only one moment of action in my film, which was in Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, where Amitabh Bachchan slaps Hrithik... that is the only violent scene I have ever directed," Johar said after unveiling the first teaser of the film.
"We have violence in this movie with Hrithik, but this time it is a little more. It is overwhelming for Dharma Productions to have done something like this since my inception with 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'. With Agneepath it was all Karan (Malhotra)'s vision," he said.
Malhotra, a former assistant of Johar, is making his directorial debut with this film, in which Hrithik Roshan is reprising Bachchan's iconic role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan.
The original Agneepath was directed by Mukul Anand and starred Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhavi, Rohini Hattangadi and Danny Denzongpa.
"We had to retain the basic plot, the revenge factor. It starts in Mandwa and ends in Mandwa - besides that everything is new. There are structural changes," Malhotra said.
Agneepath is slated for release in January 2012.
