Ek Villain Movie Review

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Starring : Sidharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh, Shraddha Kapoor, Prachi Desai
Director : Mohit Suri
Producer : Ekta Kapoor
Music Director : Ankit Tiwari
Rating: 3/5

The hit jodi of Mohit Suri and Sharddha Kapoor is all set to rock the screens yet again with their next venture, Ek Villain also starring Sidharth Malhotra and Riteish Deshmukh.

Story:

Guru (Sidharth Malhotra) is a popular gansgter of Goa, whose only aim is to wait for his death in life by killing other people. Until one he meets the the bubbly Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor), who believes in helping people to be happy and he falls for her. The two unite to be together unless one day, Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh) enters the picture.

Rakesh is a normal middle class man, who is frustrated with his job and boss, but loves his wife Sulochana (Aamna Sariff), who keeps nagging over small small issues and often fights with Rakesh. To keep loving his wife, Rakesh takes out his frustration by killing other nagging women in the city. Rakesh targets Aisha for the same reason and kills her.

Will Guru be able to find the real culprit behind Aisha’s death and will he be able to takr revenge? Forms the rest of he story…

Star Performances

Sidharth Malhotra catapults himself ahead of all the young actors around, upping himself above the league of actors he is associated with. It would be an understatement to say he is superlative. He is beyond that. In one of the romantic songs, where a gangster is falling in love with a woman, the actor’s expressions are accurate. He stares at her like I would at a trigonometry sum : with confusion, puzzled and lost. He even gets to do an Amitabh Bachchan from Shehenshah and the angry young man look and feel is fantastic. Exhibiting each emotion from heartbreak to pain to anger with such faultless ease, Malhotra is gloriously sensational.

Riteish Deshmukh doesn’t remain far behind matching up to him. He is tremendously wicked and the plainness in his eyes have a haunting quality. He talks to his victims after he murders them, telling them about his nagging wife and about how much he loves her. There is no sexual attraction between him and his victims but Riteish does bring out on his face superbly the peace after a murder. He looks positively rejuvenated and I don’t think anyone else would have been able to play this role with such perfection. Deshmukh invests himself completely to the skin of his character and he is every bit damn good!

Shraddha Kapoor talks too much in the film and that’s the most pertinent observation. Filling in perfectly into her role, she is way better than Aashiqui 2. She fits into her character very neatly and does a stellar job. Her chemistry with Sidharth is dreamy and memorable. Convulsing in her near death throes, Shraddha stole the scene and heightened the impact manifolds.

Aamna Sharif makes a re-entry on the silver screens after a while and she still has the impromptu quality of delivering well. She is memorable and justifies the reason for Riteish’s pent up frustration.

Kamaal Rashid Khan makes for good comic relief and he even gets to use his iconic #2RsPpl phrase. I am sure that quite has him content for the day and he won’t be puking all over Twitter today!

Positive Points:

Lets start with performances in this area. The roles portrayed by everone is excellent. While Sharaddha looks gorgeous and is her best self in the film, Sidharth carries off the raw villainous role with perfection. He looks extremely believable. Riteish Deshmukh’s performance is top-notch. He portrays the role of evil minded middle class man with ease.

It was after a very long time that Aamna Shariff was seen on screen. However, let us tell you that she havent lost touch for sure. Aamna too is excellent.

The romance shown between Sharddha and Sidharth has a lot of chemistry and is the best thing about the movie. The flashback scenes situated in Goa are engaging and Shraddha’s part is amazingly structured.

Negative Points:

A lot was expected from Mohit Suri’s next outing after critically and commercially acclaimed Aashiqui 2, but this time the director surely fails to impress. Ek Villain has a story that only looked good in parts, and this is the reason that the trailers enticed everyone so much. While the promos managed to develop lot of curiosity amongst the viewers, let us tell you that there is no suspense that can be looked for in the movie. Within the first five minutes, the villain is unmasked, which is disapponting on the director’s part.

Another worst part about the film is that Shraddha Kapoor, who looks extremely wonderful has only one scene in the second half. There are so many things that are left unexplained in the film, like Sharddha’s disease, etc. Also as soon as the movie starts to get some grip, it drifts apart soon after. A few of the scenes are also disconnected and the viewers fail to see any connection between these.

Also Kamaal R Khan’s character was forcefully placed in the film and it wasn’t needed at all.

Technical Aspects:

Even though the performances and the all the songs composed by Mithoon and Arjit Singh are praiseworthy, it is the screenplay that is pathetic. There are too many flashbacks in the film, which sometimes, do not even make sense.

While the first half has some good scenes and songs, the second half has nothing at all. The director pretty much sums up the whole story in the first half and post interval part is plain useless and boring. The cinematography is good as the the camera beautifully covers the locales of Goa and Mumbai time and again. Editting coild have been sharper, as there is too much if discontinuation between a few sequences.

Verdict:

On a whole, Ek Villain could have come out to be a great cinematic experience, but due to a shaky screenplay, the final product turns out to be not-so-enticing. One can watch it for the performances and songs.