What if someone told you that a
stern looking gangster can be given a heart change by your impish chatter and
inane jokes? The movie ‘Ek Villain’ drags you into believing it.
The
story spins mainly around three people-Aisha, Guru and Rakesh. Aisha (Shraddha
Kapoor) is this quirky girl who can go on and on with her babble, some funny
and some with a content high on philosophy. For every situation she manages to
tag along a joke. Sadly, she is gripped by a disease (name of which is not
disclosed till the end) due to which she has already started a countdown to her
death. This makes her ever bubblier (a la ‘Anand’ and ‘Guddi’ of olden times).
She wishes to enjoy happiness in every form and thus, writes a scrapbook to
make a note of those ‘happiness’ moments she would love to have before she dies
and a camera to click her happiness in action and paste it in the scrapbook.
Guru
(Siddharth Malhotra), the criminal who is forever lugging his deadpan looks, is
a man of few words. Aisha needs a favour from him, so is always after him
badgering to help her. Irritated by her nonstop talks, he tries to avoid her
and even intimidates her on some occasions. But at the end, he falls for her
and even helps her fulfil her ‘Project Happiness’.
Rakesh
(Riteish Deshmukh) shown as a psychopath husband is mind blowing. He loves his
wife to the core. He is ready to tolerate her everyday nagging and annoying
remarks; with an exception that he vents his anger on unknown ladies by killing
them in weirdest of manners. One such hapless victim is Aisha, who dies before
her disease can conquer her.
What
happens after that is the mystery of the movie. Will Guru take revenge of the
death of his lady love? Who exactly is the real villain in the story is to be
seen. First half an hour of the movie is immensely captivating as you are
curiously connecting the story shown part in flashback and part in the present.
But the climax leaves you flabbergasted for you feel that expectations built in
the first half are dampened in the second half. It makes you think that the
director, Mohit Suri had some abrupt idea at midnight and he told the
screenplay writer to make it into a film by hook or by crook.
The
film has been shot mainly in Goa and Mumbai. All picturesque places have been
captured for pleasant and romantic shots while dismaying locales have been
artistically picked for mysterious scenes. A typical Goanese background of
churches and British style buildings leave you mesmerised. The part where Aisha
wants to fulfil her wishes like catching a butterfly, seeing a peacock dancing
in first rains have been shot in very lush green neighbourhood like a dense
forest and a hilly area. You are left with a longing to visit that spot.
While
most of the songs are melodious and you keep humming those hours later, the
item number by Prachi Desai, ‘Awari’ is
a total misfit even to drag the story further. Ankit Tiwari and Mithoon have
done a good job in the music department. Tushar Hiranandani and Milap Zaveri
have belted out some really power-packed dialogues, highlighting the underlying
theme of the movie-‘a devil can be turned into a good person by bringing him
out of darkness into light’.
At
the end, I feel the box office numbers ringed because ever since previous week
there has been no good movie to watch and people needed some entertainment to
enjoy their weekend.
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