An action-romance film directed by Mohit Suri featuring Sidharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor as the pivotal characters in this violent film apparently based on a Korean film. (Ek Villain – Film Review)
Guru (Sidharth Malhotra) is a quiet, tough and ruthless boy, working for a local don, Prahlad. Guru has a dark past and its disturbing, recurring memories refuse to let Guru lead a normal life day in and day out.
While being interrogated at the Police station, he gets the first glimpse of a sweet looking girl, Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) and more than him it is Aisha who is intrigued, impressed with his persona. Aisha is the talkative, ‘ek joke sunoge’ types (which is a bit too much to bear at times).
Aisha persuades him to do a favour for her, and in the process, he realises the happiness and joy of doing something good for other. He falls in love with her, his life changes and wants to get married to her.
Aisha is suffering from a serious illness and her father lets out to him that the cheerful, bubbly, talkative girl has very short life. She mantains a scrap book with her wish-list of things to do. Most of the issues are to see people happy around her.
Sensing that Guru is becoming fond of her, she doesn’t want him to lead an unhappy life as her doctors say that she has very few days of her life to live. So she leaves Goa and boards a train to Mumbai. Guru is now obsessed about her so much that he even quits his job and moves from Goa to Mumbai to make a new beginning with Aisha.
Just when things seem perfect, she falls prey to a physical attack. She is the victim of a psychotic serial killer, and even after her pleading to save her life, she is heartlessly thrown out of a window.
Devastated, Guru starts hunting the miscreant and is shocked to learn of his seemingly innocuous and simple identity. Something is amiss and Guru is unable to place a finger on the precise problem.
Who is the real assailant? Does Guru succeed in getting even with the assailant? And what is the motive behind her killing?
The plot thickens as the astonishing mystery unveils and new realizations come to the forefront.
Director Mohit Suri, known for his inimitable cult films, Woh Lamhe, Zeher, Awarapan, Raaz-2, and the recent Aashiqui-2, misses to create the grip in the film in the second half.
The chemistry between Sidharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor is beautifully shown. It is the character of Riteish Deshmukh as the husband longing for love and affection from his wife, is the highlight of the film.
Riteish ought to be commended for a splendid performance. Instead of goofing around wearing females clothes, its time that this talented young actor takes up similar meaningful roles.
Remo Fernandes is unlikable in the role of a don, while Aamna Sharif comes up with a brief yet very realistic performance of the nagging wife, always scorning, having disrespect and ever mocking attitude towards her husband (Riteish Deshmukh). Prachi Desai is in there for a sensuous song.
Ek Villain is intriguiging, edge-of-the-seat drama in the first half. Then onwards there is romance in the air and some enchanting back-ground songs.
A bit confusing in the beginning, yet a gripping tale that unfolds the mysteries in the latter half. Ek Villain is an above average thriller.
During several moments in the second half, there is much of sadism depicted in the pysches of Guru and Rakesh, and even the cop. The tagline of Ek Villain says ‘There is one in every love story’. One wonders who is the greatest villian – Guru, Rakesh or … the director?
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Cast
Sidharth Malhotra – Guru
Shraddha Kapoor – Aisha
Riteish Deshmukh – Rakesh
Aamna Shariff – Sulochana (Rakesh’s wife)
Kamaal Rashid Khan – Rakesh’s friend
Shaad Randhawa – Inspector
Remo Fernandes – Guru’s boss
Asif Basra – Aisha’s father
Prachi Desai – Special appearance
Credits:
Banner – Balaji Motion Pictures
Producer – Ekta Kapoor
Director – Mohit Suri
Background Music – Raju Singh
Choreographer – Raju Khan
Music Directors – Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon, Rabbi Ahmed, Adnan Dhool
Lyrics – Manoj Muntashir, Mithoon, Rabbi Ahmed, Adnan Dhool
Cinematography – Vishnu Rao
Ek Villain – Film Review