Sikkim’s Bollywood celebrity who did the famous role of Kancha Cheena in Mukul Anand’s famous 1990 movie Agneepath said in an interview to the TOI that he would not have tampered with Agneepath. Danny said this with regard to the remake of the Agneepath by Karan Johar’s former assistant Karan Malhotra. The new film will bear the same tagline as the Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun Chakraborty starring 1990 Agneepath-”Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, poora naam, baap ka naam Deenanath Chauhan, gaon Mandwa.”

Danny Dengzongpa was the villain in the 1990 Agneepath produced by Yash Johar. The film whose title was taken from a Harivansh Rai Bachchan poem was considered y some as a loose adaptation of the 1983 Hollywood film Scarface starring Al Pacino. The films plot was based on the life Mumbai underworld.

In the 2012 Agneepath, the role of Amitabh Bachchan will be played by Hrithik Roshan against Priyanka Chopra. In the remake the character played by Mithun Chakraborty has been done away with. The role of the villain will be played by Sanjay Dutt in the new Agneepath to be released in 2012.

Danny said about his role being played by Sanjay Dutt, “Sanjay’s getup is far different from what I sported….If I was asked to do Kancha Cheena again, I would play it differently.”

The famous Bollywood villain from Sikkim who still spends a good part of the year at his farmhouse in Sikkim counts his role in Kaalicharan, Dhund and Agneepath as his one of the best. However, Danny rates his role in Bengali film Lal Kuthi at the top. The film ran for more than 60 weeks.

Though Agneepath flopped at the box office, it is still considered as one of the all time classics of Bollywood.

 

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