Passing a string to C-code in Android NDK

The program should take an Image from the SD card and adjust its brightness. And the image is taken from the SD card via the NDK C-code. It is to be noted that the string depicting the path to the image is passed to the NDK via JNI.

Java code:

private void adjustBrightness() {
   imagePath     = (Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath()+"earthglobe.jpeg").toCharArray();
   brightness(imagePath, brightness);
}

public native void brightness(char[] imagePath, float brightness);

NDK code:

JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_example_ImageActivity_brightness(JNIEnv * env,char[] bitmappath, jfloat brightnessValue)
{
   string bmpath    =   bitmappath+'\0';
   jobject  obj = fopen( bitmappath , "rb" );
}