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| Directed by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Produced by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Written by | Salim Khan Ram Gopal Varma |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan Mohanlal Ajay Devgan Sushmita Sen |
| Music by | Ganesh Hegde Prasanna Shekhar |
| Cinematography | Amit Roy |
| Distributed by | Adlabs K Sera Sera |
| Release date(s) | 31 August 2007 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Aag (originally titled Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag) is a Bollywood drama written, produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Mohanlal, Ajay Devgan and Sushmita Sen in lead roles. The film was released on 31 August 2007. It is a remake of one of India's most successful films, the 1975 movie Sholay. The film was previously known as Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay but due to Varma's infringement of Sippy's trademark and copyright, the Delhi High Court ordered the name change (along with character names).
The film was a critical and huge commercial failure as it received poor reception from both critics and audiences, who bashed the film and also the director for making it.
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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 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 by 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 Subbu's widow, Durga (Sushmita Sen). They then set out to capture Babban and meet with some success during Diwali, but Babban manages to escape. Babban then starts to ambush and kill Kaliganj residents to compel them to surrender the duo to him. The question remains will the residents carry out Babban's wishes or will they permit themselves to be slaughtered?
It was the biggest disaster of the year at the Indian box office in 2007.[1] Currently it is placed at number 15 on the bottom 100 movies on IMDb with one of the lowest ratings of 1.6/10 from over 2500 users [2] also it is the only Hindi film on the list. (http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom) [3]
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