Aag [originally titled Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag] is a Bollywood Drama written, produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Mohanlal and Sushmita Sen in lead roles. The film was released on 31 August, 2007. It is a remake of one of Indias biggest hit, the 1975 film Sholay. This film was previously known as Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay but due to Ram Gopal Varmas infringement of Sippys trademark and copyright, the Delhi High Court ordered the name change [along with character names].
Nasik-based Heerendra Dhaan [Ajay Devgan] and Raj Ranade [Prashant Raj Sachdev] are bodyguards of a politician, but after their employer is implicated in a scam, they end up assaulting a police officer and flee to Mumbai. Once there they meet with Rambhabhai [Rajpal Yadav], who in turn, gets them employed with a gangster named Shambhu. After a short while the duo are apprehended by Police Inspector Narsimha, questioned, and after they agree to cooperate to bring down Shambhu, are let go. The two do succeed in assisting the police arrest Shambhu, but they themselves are arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to a year in jail. After their discharge they are met with Inspector Narsimha [Mohanlal], who wants to recruit them to capture and kill dreaded bandit Babban Singh [Amitabh Bachchan], who had slaughtered his wife, Kavita [Suchitra Krishnamoorthi], and son, Subbu [J.D. Chakravarthy], as well as cut his arms off. Heerendra and Raj agree to carry out this task for 8 Lakh Rupees. They re-locate to Kaliganj where Heerendra falls in love with auto-rickshaw driver, Ghungroo [Priyanka Kothari], while Raj gives his heart to Subbus widow, Durga [Sushmita Sen]. They then set about their task to capture Babban [Amitabh Bachchan], and do meet with some success during Diwali, but Babban manages to escape. Babban then starts to ambush and kill Kaliganj residents one by one in order to compel them to surrender the duo to him. The question remains will the residents carry out Babbans wishes or will they permit themselves to be slaughtered?
Reception
The film received extremely poor reception from critics, and is currently placed at number 12 on the bottom 100 movies on imdb.
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