Agni Varsha is a 2002 critically acclaimed epic Hindi film directed by Arjun Sajnani. The film is a silver screen adaptation of Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...

's Mahabharat play "The Fire and The Rain". The film's art direction was handled by Shashi Adappa and Choreography was handled by Prabhu Deva.

Plot

The film is Based on an incident from the Mahabharata

Mahabharata

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....

 and also made as a play on a Girish Karnad titled Fire in the Rain. The film features Amitabh Bachchan in a cameo appearance as Lord Indra

Indra

' or is the King of the demi-gods or Devas and Lord of Heaven or Svargaloka in Hindu mythology. He is also the God of War, Storms, and Rainfall.Indra is one of the chief deities in the Rigveda...

. Jackie Shroff plays the main lead in the film as Puravasu the head priest, Raveena playing the role of his unfaithful wife in love with Yavakri. Nagarjuna played Yavakri the priest's jealous rival and Prabhudeva as a demon who kills Yavakri. While Milind Soman plays the younger brother of Jackie Shroff as Aravasu, the female lead opposite Milind is played by Sonali Kulkarni.

Cast

• Nagarjuna Akkineni - Yavakri
• Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
  
   - Indra
  Indra
  ' or is the King of the demi-gods or Devas and Lord of Heaven or Svargaloka in Hindu mythology. He is also the God of War, Storms, and Rainfall.Indra is one of the chief deities in the Rigveda...
  
  
• Jackie Shroff
  Jackie Shroff
  Jackie Shroff is an Indian actor. He has been in the industry for more than 28 years and has appeared in over 150 films.-Personal life:...
  
   - Paravasu
• Raveena Tandon
  Raveena Tandon
  Raveena Tandon is a National Film Award winning Indian actress, producer, and a former model. She has primarily worked in Bollywood films, though she appeared in a few Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films as well....
  
   - Vishakha
• Milind Soman
  Milind Soman
  Milind Soman is a Scottish-born Indian model and actor. He was born in Scotland and lived in England for seven years before his family moved back to India.-Professional life:...
  
   - Arvasu
• Prabhu Deva - Rakshasa
• Mohan Agashe
  Mohan Agashe
  Mohan Agashe is an Indian theatre and film actor. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996.-Biography:...
  
   - Raibhya
• Kumar Iyengar - Senior Courtier
• Sonali Kulkarni
  Sonali Kulkarni
  Sonali Kulkarni is an Indian actress. She was born in Pune. She has majorly worked in Marathi and Hindi films. She is famous for her role in Dil Chahta Hai.-Career:...
  
  
• Deepti Bhatnagar
  Deepti Bhatnagar
  -Early life:Deepti Bhatnagar was born in a Hindu family from Meerut. She did her early education from Delhi and attended Meerut University. She moved to Mumbai in 1992 to identify a good ad agency to promote her handicrafts factory in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.-Career:...
  
  
• Raghuvir Yadav
  Raghuvir Yadav
  Raghubir Yadav is a two-time International Award winner Indian stage, film and television actor, music composer, singer and set designer.-Biography:...
  
  - Actor Manager (Sutradhar)
• Nikita Athena Rajwade