Agneepath (1990)

Amitabh Bachchan: Vijay Dinanath Chavan

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• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Name, Vijay Dinanath Chavan - full name. Father's name, Master Dinanath Chavan. Mom's name, Sawashni Chavan. Village, Mandva. Age, 36 years, 9 months, 8 days. We are in the 16'th hour.

• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : This is a city only in name. But laws of jungle prevail here. The housefly eats microbes. The frog eats the housefly. The snake eats the frog. The mongoose kills the snake. The fox sucks the blood of the mongoose. The lion chews-up the fox. Here, every powerfull being lives by killing the one weaker than himself.

• [Lying down on the bed at the hospital] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : What's your name?

  Mary Matthew : Why?

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Because in this world, only two women have seen me naked - and you are one of them.

• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [In Police station,showing his dairy to Commissioner Gaitonde]  I have an appointment with my death at 6 o'clock today evening.

• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : This world is very bad place, Mr. Gaitonde. In order to survive here, one has to be bad. He who reforms is dead.

• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Whatever language the question was asked in, the answer must be given in that same language. This is the principle of my business.

• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : I was a little boy when I saw my father die in front of my eyes. What was his crime? Nothing! I alone carried his body to the crematory. I didn't cremate one body that day, but two. One of my good father and the other of his good son.

• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [Handing Rupees 325 to Krishnan]  I could have given you a lot of money. But I know a man like you will only accept the money that is rightfully his.

• Vijay Dinanath Chavan : If I wanted I could have killed you myself. But Vijay Chavan does not give his enemies such an easy death.

• Kancha Cheena : [Looking at the scar on Vijay's wrist]  What happened to your hand?

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : I burnt down a petrol pump when I was young. My hand got burnt at that time.

  Kancha Cheena : [laughing]  That petrol pump was mine. I'll send you the bill.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Along with it send me the bill of your tailor as well. I really liked your dressing sense.

• Kancha Cheena : [to Amitabh Bachchan after Goga Kapoor falls dead on his footsteps]  What did you just do ?

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [In a calm smooth voice]  Whenever there's a fight between a snake and a mongoose, the snake dies Kancha.

  Kancha Cheena : [Smiling with grudge]  The snake's dead. But now it's the turn of the mongoose who tried to bite the snake charmer by befriending him.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : When you can benefit from your enemies, make friends with them. It's the core principle of your business. Didn't you say so.

  Kancha Cheena : You understood the functioning of my business very well Vijay Chavan, but you haven't seen the consequences of them.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [In a sudden raging tone]  It's YOU who'll see the consequences now. 25 years ago you landed on the soil of Mandwa and look how you intoxicated it. You turned the men into drug addicts, drunks. You made prostitutes out of women. You threw away the innocence of the kids into the sewers and individually, these people don't have a roof on their heads and you live in lavish palaces. These people don't have clothing to cover their body and you change clothes every hour.

  [as he turns around] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : He's speaking of consequences.

  Kancha Cheena : Now I understood why you wanted Mandwa. By getting rid of Dinkar Rao, you wanted to equal me, wanted to get under my skin. But you made a grave mistake Vijay Chavan. In your quest for reaching this position, you overstepped a lot, by coming to Mandwa for the starters. The land where I began my life.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [Turns around in a furious tone]  Hey, speak the whole fact. Not life, but the life of crime is what you began from here, by eliminating an innocent Master Dinanath.

  Kancha Cheena : [Astonished]  Master Dinanath ? How did you find out about him ?

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Kancha, this show off of yours is as strong as steel, but your hearing is as brittle as glass. You don't remember things to understand them. The day we met for the first time, what did I tell you who I am, Vijay Dinanath Chavan. That's my full name.

  [Danny gets shocked on realizing their connection] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Now you got it better. When you do something with your right hand, the left hand shouldn't know about it. Right.

  Kancha Cheena : [Draws out his gun and takes a step back]  You too wouldn't know that how soon you are going to go the same way Master Dinanath went.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [Sarcastically smiling]  Kancha, you're drawing a gun and taking a step back too ! No use in going back now Kancha, coz even if you back out, the past isn't coming back. You landed right into my trap like an ordinary pawn and nothing more. Take a look around.

  [Police arrives and Sudhir Pandey detains Danny at gunpoint] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : If I wanted, I would've drained all the life out of you. But Vijay Chavan doesn't give his enemies such an easy death. I burned in revenge for 25 years just to get to you. Now get lost and let the law decide your fate.

  Kancha Cheena : In the courtroom, you need evidence.

  Shanti : [Appears from behind Danny]  Which I have in my pocession Kancha. Evidence of each and every evil you have committed till now.

  Kancha Cheena : [Completely shocked]  Laila, even you... ..

  Shanti : I am not Laila,

  [walks over to Amitabh Bachchan's side] 

  Shanti : I am Shanti. In order to eliminate Master Dinanath, you used Chanda Bai's mother. In order to nab you, Vijay used Chanda Bai's daughter.

  Kancha Cheena : [In a shocked tone]  You're Chanda Bai's daughter ?

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [In a delighted, triumphant voice]  Yes, this is Shanti, Chanda Bai's daughter. The language in which the question's asked, the reply should be in the same language. That's the principle of my business Kancha.

  [Walks away] 

  Kancha Cheena : [shouting as he's loaded in the police jeep]  Vijay Chavan, it's YOU who's forgotten, that the punishment for every mistake is death. Now you better remember that.

• Shanti : [Sunbathing at Danny's beach villa after he opens a champagne bottle]  Is there a special reason you're celebrating ?

  Kancha Cheena : [Under the belief Sharat Saxena killed Amitabh Bachchan]  A tiny thorn, cut down an entire sword.

  [Handing Archana Puran Singh a glass] 

  Kancha Cheena : What 4 men and 100 bullets together couldn't accomplish, Terelin pulled it off on his own.

  Shanti : [Skeptical if Sharat Saxena indeed succeeded]  Terelin killed Vijay Chavan ?

  [Suddenly Amitabh Bachchan surfaces from the waters and makes way to the beach with Danny signalling his guards to stand down] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [to Danny]  I happen to be very punctual. But since I am late today, I apologize. You see, whilst on the way here, somebody threw mud on me so I thought I'll clean it up first. Myself, Vijay Dinanath Chavan. My full name.

  Kancha Cheena : And I am..

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [Interrupting Danny]  The man who lives in the glass castle, Kancha Seth. We've met before. I used to cloth clean the windows of your car when I was a kid.

  Kancha Cheena : [Smiling]  And now want to wear my clothing.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [Responding with a glee]  Nope, I want to put the cloth on

  [takes off his blazer and covers Archana Puran Singh] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : her.

  [to Singh] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Put this on, or you'll catch cold

  [singh leaves] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : .

  [to Danny] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Shall we talk business ?

  Kancha Cheena : Of course, have a seat. You want to go to the top quite fast. I fear for such people who want to make it big pretty quickly.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Some of such zeal is pocessed by most of us Kancha Cheena. At times, in order to move further you often have to trample innocent people. Haven't you crushed the innocent to reach your goals ?

  Kancha Cheena : True. What is it that you want ?

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Mandva.

  Kancha Cheena : [Stunned but calmly smiling]  What would you get in Mandva ?

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : The same thing I'll get in Shimoga, Daman, Jaisalmer or Kohima. Your business is operated out of there, I want entry. We'll work in tandem. You'll earn some so would I. Else, several more innocent people will die just due to our competition for no reason, wouldn't they.

  Kancha Cheena : Fair. You have Mandva. But remember one thing straight, Vijay Chavan, don't ever cross my path. The basic principle of my business is that the punishment for every mistake, is death. Take a look

  [a chopper approaches the beach] 

  Kancha Cheena : . Since it's the first day of our friendship, a small gift from my side

  [Bob Christo throws Sharat Saxena to his death from the chopper] 

  Kancha Cheena : , your nemesis Terelin.

  [Amitabh Bachchan walks to Saxena's corpse and a bullet round from his pocket on him] 

• Hasmukh : [At the syndicate office discussing Amitabh Bachchan's refusal to venture into drugs]  Usman, we've got only two more hours left. If Vijay Chavan wants the reins of this business, just give it to him, but we can't afford a miscalculation now.

  Usman : [Scoffing at Arvind Rathod]  You're one damn coward. If we don't eliminate Vijay, we'll have to forget not just going into the drug trade, but also our only chance to surpass Kancha.

  Anna Shetty : [In a furious tone]  Why are you all going nuts now. Years ago when I warned all of you, what did you all say ? That for the favours we're doing him, he'll keep waging his tail like a dog in front of us. You saw how he's waging his tail now ? That scoundrel dared to refuse our proposal.

  Terelin : So what Mr. Anna Shetty, 6 o'clock, we'll finish off that bastard.

  Usman : [In a sudden change of tone as Amitabh Bachchan steps into the office]  Hey Viju, buddy it's you, common in.

  Hasmukh : [Frightened]  Hey friend, why are you still standing over there, please step in. You want a chair

  [referring to the controls of the business] 

  Hasmukh : , here I am offering you mine

  [puts forward his chair at the center of the room] 

  Hasmukh : .

  Usman : [With a fake smile]  We're all past our age now. Our legs are hanging over the grave.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : [Sits on the table with a calm smooth voice]  The telephones in this place ring too much. It's a pretty bad invention this telephone,

  [in a gravely voice] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : the person who calls thinks something different, says something else, does things even opposite.

  Hasmukh : [Desperate to save his life]  No man, somebody has misinformed you.

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : Here you are, planning my death. And yet you say I've been misinformed. If you wanna kill me, you're most welcome. I'll take the bullets here

  [tapping his chest] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : on my body. If I die, this chair and this business everything belongs to you. BUT if I survive

  [laughs after a brief pause and starts leaving before turning around, pulling his gun out and putting it on the table] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : , in the fight between all of you and me, victory wouldn't be of this gun but of this

  [pointing across his fore line meaning fate and leaves] 

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : .

• Dhinkar Rao : [after Amitabh Bachchan comes to Mandwa and visits his childhood home]  Take a good look at this house. Had it not fallen, me and Kancha would've been destroyed once and for all.

  [Unaware Amitabh Bachchan lived in the house] 

  Dhinkar Rao : A teacher used to live here, Master Dinanath. That scum used to say he'll turn this village into a heaven. Me and Kancha used our brains and made a demon out of a saint. You know Bhai, at times when I get too drunk, I ponder what'd have happened to his wife and kids. But then I come to my senses and realise, what could have happened, they must be begging on the streets

  [laughs maniacally until Amitabh Bachchan turns around with a stern face] 

  Dhinkar Rao : .

  Vijay Dinanath Chavan : The winds are fast and strong Dhinkar Rao, watch your cap.

  [Leaves]