MUMBAI: Karan Malhotra will direct Karan Johar‘s new-age Agneepath, the film in which Amitabh Bachchan‘s brilliant performance as Vijay Dinanath Chavan won him a National award.

The upcoming film, an adaptation and restructured version of the film that Karan‘s father Yash Johar had produced, has been penned by Karan Malhotra along with two other writers. 

While Agneepath was deeply influenced by Scarface, the new Agneepath purports to pay homage to Scarface.

Karan Malhotra was the associate director in My Name Is Khan.

It is widely reported that Hrithik Roshan has been approached to essay the character that Amitabh Bachchan essayed.