Movie Review: Ek Villain is a decent watch
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It's a story of a serial killer who picks the wrong man's fiancee to murder.
Bad guy with a good heart Guru (Siddharth Malhotra) works for a local gangster (Remo Fernandez) in Goa. Life takes a pleasant turn once he meets the chirpy Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) who wants to live her life to the fullest and has a joke for every occasion. Aisha's life is all about doing things for others and interestingly for one of her many cases she wants to take Guru's help. He doesn't seem interested but she for some reason is sure that he will agree and predictably so, he eventually does. A few scenes later, Guru and Aisha are married. The twist comes when a serial killer Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh) on the loose kills Aisha. His is one of the many rude characters in Ek Villain. From doctors to the ticket collectors, everyone for some reason is arrogant and brash.
Now it's only certain that Guru will dig out Rakesh come what may, to the extent that even best security officers from the CBI are worried, not because there is a serial killer on the move but they fear Guru's revenge which can be ugly. Devasted, Guru manages to find Rakesh but he decides to not take his life and instead will find him torture him every day.
The cops are the most useless lot in this film. They don't catch the serial killer, in fact at one point when they have information about him they pass it on to Guru so that he can seek revenge.
The film has a lot of interesting portions but the plot is full of loopholes. Mohit Suri has managed one big thing and that's getting some of the best performances out of all the three actors. Shraddha delivers a wonderful performance. Siddharth though too good looking to be the mean guy is out of his comfort zone and is convincing as the new-age, angry young man. Riteish as the disturbed serial killer is excellent!
A lot of the portions could have been chopped like a silly item number by Prachi Desai to make the film slick. Not just songs but some inexcusable casting was also done to make some noise like the obnoxious Kamaal R Khan playing an unpleasant character who slaps his wife and says that's the only way middle class men can get rid of their frustration.
The dialogues are just not in sync with the plot of the film. A lot of times they break into some poetic language which neither suits their characters nor it goes with the plot. You would expect young actors to have more realistic dialogues.
There is no doubt that filmmaker Mohit Suri knows the craft, he is in fact one of the best filmmakers out of the younger lot, which he has also proved in the past. He has worked too long with the Bhatts so there was no way he would get the music wrong, full marks to music composers Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon and Soch (Band) for giving soulful music keeping the mood of the film in mind.
Even after a lot of flaws Ek Villain is a decent watch but it could have been much better!
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