Agnee (franchise)

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Agnee
Created byIftakar Chowdhury
Original work Agnee (2014 film)
OwnerJaaz Multimedia
Years2014-present
Films and television
Film(s)

Agnee is a Bangladeshi action-drama film franchise created by Iftakar Chowdhury. The films resolves around Tanisha, a stone-cold assassin who has lost her parents in childhood because of the underworld mafia Gulzar and Haydar. [1] [2] Agnee franchise films are among the most successful Bangladeshi action films. The first Agnee film was a blockbuster hit which changed the view of action films in the Bangladesh film industry.

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Overview

Agnee (2014)

Tanisha is a young daughter of a man working for the brutal underworld mafia Gulzar and Haydar. When Tanisha's father decides he wants to leave the crime world to make a better life for his daughter, Gulzar and Haydar kills him, and family in order to eliminate a potential threat. Gulzar kills everyone in the family, and when he is about to kill Tanisha, she stabs him and vows she will kill them one day before escaping. She grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She receives training from her uncle and ultimately engages in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target, the powerful underworld crime syndicate responsible for her parents' death.

Agnee 2 (2015)

After defeating Gulzar and his gang to avenge father's death, Tanisha returns to Bangladesh with Sishir to live normal lives again. Sishir, Tanisha's boyfriend, once a deadly assassin and a member of Gulzar's crime syndicate who later turns good and Tanisha to avenge her father's death. Sishir decides to permanently return to Bangladesh for Tanisha but fails to return to Tanisha as Python, Gulzar's brother and leader of a large crime syndicate kills him to take revenge for Brother's death. Saddened by the death of Sishir, Tanisha vows to kill Python at any cost.

Films

FilmRelease dateDirectorWriterProducer
Agnee 14 February 2014 Iftakar Chowdhury A J Babu Abdul Aziz
Agnee 2 July 18, 2015 Iftakar Chowdhury Md Amjad Hossen Abdul Aziz

Agnee

Agnee was the first film of the series which was released on 14 February 2014. [3] The film became a commercial hit. [4] With the success of the first film. The creators went to make a sequel.

Agnee 2

Agnee 2 is the sequel of Agnee. It is the second film of the series which was released on 18 July 2005. [5] Like its predecessor, Agnee 2 was also a commercial hit. [6]

Cast and crew

These tables list the cast and crew who worked in the Agnee franchise. [2]

Cast

CharactersFilms
AgneeAgnee 2
20142015
Tanisha Mahiya Mahi
Shishir / Dragon Arifin Shuvoo
Young Tanisha Puja Cherry
Gulzar Ali Raj
Haidar Misha Sawdagor
Python Ashish Vidyarthi
Ishan Om
Mithun Sarkar Amit Hasan

Crew

CrewFilms
AgneeAgnee 2
Director Iftakar Chowdhury
Producer Abdul Aziz
ComposerAdit Ozbert Savvy Gupta & Akassh

Reception

Box office performance

This is a list of Agnee franchise first two days performance at box office.

FilmBox officeRef.
Agnee৳2.4 crore (US$309k) [4]
Agnee 2৳3.9 crore (US$502k) [6]
Total৳6.3 crore (US$811k)

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