Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan will play the lead role in the remake of Agneepath.
After contemplating the idea for months, Karan Johar has finally decided to cast Hrithik Roshan in his ambitious projects, Agneepath.
The move comes as a surprise to many since it was being believed that Abhishek Bachchan is the natural choice for the role and would be offered the role his father successfully carried out in 1991.
A source close to Karan said that his decision to choose Hrithik to play the lead role in the film has not come as a surprise to those who know him because even though Abhishek’s name came up for consideration, Hrithik was always the first choice of the producer-director to play this role.
Irrespective of the fact that people feel that Abhishek would have been a good choice, Karan has his own explanation to choose Hrithik for the role. If Karan is to be believed, though the basic concept and the name of the movie remains the same, the reason for selecting Hrithik may be that the new film isn’t really going to be a replica of the movie made in 1990 featuring Mr. Bachchan in the lead role. An example of this being that in the film he plans to make, Karan has totally deleted the character of South Indian man played by Mithun Chakraborty. Keeping in mind that the film is going to have a single male character, Hrithik has been roped in for the lead role.
So, all of you, who wanted to see Abhishek playing the lead role in the remake of 1991 national award winning film, with Karan announcing that Hrithik will play the lead role, you are in for a disappointment.
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