Right now just after watching this movie, there is only one word I can think of to describe this. Its "Explosive". The extremely loud bg score, the awesome performances, the large scale settings for many scenes, the many close up shots are all a treat.
Like the earlier Agneepath, this one starts with the village(Mandava) setting where a "Master" is trying hard to elevate the economic and knowledge level of the people. But, all that is ruthlessly crushed by Kancha who gets the Master set up for a serious crime and eventually kills him with support of villagers. What follows then is the revenge story.
While the structure and some of the critical scenes resemble the original Agneepath, this movie is in true way inspired. After Sarkar this is the hindi movie that can truly be said to be inspired( or remake). The many scenes which although resemble the previous Agneepath, have been taken a step further with some important additions, like the one where Vijay's sister is kidnapped(this particular sequence also happens to be the highlight of the movie for me) or the one where Vijay goes for the dinner to her mother's house.
Regarding performances, Hrithik delivers one of those performances which we refer to as "breathed fire to his role". It is completely on the different lines than what Amitabh had portrayed. Like at places when Amitabh believed in just using his eyes to tell a lot, Hrithik uses his whole face to express the same emotions. In any case at the end you do have to appreciate Hrithik for giving something meaningfully different to the role of Vijay Chauhan, instead of making a mockery of his predecessor(yeah I am referring to SRK here).
Sanjay Dutt as Kancha is again entirely a different person than Danny was. Though the right amount of "edge" is there in his role but I still felt there could have been something more to be able to call his character as Pure Evil. Priyanka just has an extended guest appearance, and at most places is just there for song and dance routines. The best character to me was of Rishi Kapoor as Rauf Lala. The old man is simply scintillating who first plays a father figure then a bitter rival to Vijay.
The movie has a long running time, and some parts are quite loose in terms of screenplay especially in the first half, but the end product is worth a watch one time if not two.
