From last one decade director Mohit Suri is making movies adapted from foreign films without giving any credit to them.The only change he does is to add some Indian sentiments and some melodious songs. With "Ek Villain" he has done the same thing. This time the movie which has been taken as inspiration is a Korean film "I Saw The Devil".
This is a movie about two lovers one become a good person from a villain for his lady love another becomes a villain from a good guy for his wife. So there are two parallel tracks one involving Guru (Siddharth Malhotra) and Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) and another one is about Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh) and his wife Sulochana(Aamna Sharif).
On the other hand Rakesh is a frustrated MTNL employee who has a nagging wife at home unsatisfied boss at office. Although his wife's behavior is very bad towards him he loves her very much and wants to prove himself as a hero to her wife.
With one murder both this stories crossed each other. What happens after that is rest of the story.
Basically this is meant to be the story of a serial murderer who kills innocent ladies but there is a solid dose of romance too as the flashback story of Guru and Aisha. If we watch carefully to director Mohit Suri's last two works one was "Murder 2" a psychological thriller and "Ashiqui 2" a musical love story and it seems this time the production house has forced him to mix his both hit formulas together. But unfortunately neither it is as exciting as "Murder 2" as a thriller nor emotional and touchy as a musical love story as "Ashiqui 2".
The main problem is with the script. The romantic track has been added with main story but it has been progressed in a very much cliched approach where a tough guy falls in for a talkative sweet girl and fulfills all her wishes. For the thriller part the main missing thing is a solid reason behind the serial killings. the reason which has been shown in the script is very much unrealistic.
the films narrative style has also some problems in spite of being a thriller it reveals the murderer in just 20-25 minutes of the film. Then a promising point comes that now the main focus will be how the hero traces the killer but surprisingly that is also done even before the interval so basically nothing is left for the post-interval portion. Even in the climax the final confrontation between the hero and the anti-hero is finished in such way which becomes unintentionally funny.
As a director Mohit Suri has done far better jobs for Bhatt camp, it seems he was not at his ease with his first venture outside Bhatt camp.His story telling style is not up to the mark. Every time there is a dilemma whether it is a romantic story or a thriller. He has experimented in casting too by selecting actors for the roles exactly opposite to their image though the casting is good for the leading cast but the same can not be said for the supporting cast members.
As the leading man Siddharth Malhotra has done a fantastic job. This is the first time he has done action role and he has done that very well. Be it the intense emotional scenes or the action scenes his performance is commendable.He is one actor who is growing as a performer with each of his movies.
Riteish Deshmukh has taken a big challenge to do something exactly opposite from his screen image and he succeed up to a point. He is good in negative character but his expressions are very cliched sometime which could have been improved. Specially in some scenes in the beginning he doesn't look much efficient but as the story progresses his control over the character also keeps getting strong.
There are lots of hope from Shraddha Kapoor after "Ashiqui 2" but she is disappointing here. Though she has acted fair but her character graph is bad that she fails to impress the audiences.She looked pretty but her dialogues which consist too much gyaan does not go well with her image.
Aamna Sharif has done good job in the small role of Riteish Deshmukh's wife. Kamal R Khan's acting and his character in this movie is just like his real life personality disgusting. Remo Fernandese is a miscast as the underworld don. Shaad Randhawa tries to hard to act and look like a tough cop but his character has no scope neither he has any promising abilities.
There is an unwanted item song too which features Prachi Desai and no matter how the song interrupted the story but Prachi Desai has given appropriate expressions for the song.
Among the technical team the only man who shines is the cinematographer Vishnu Rao. He has shot the under water sequences as well as the action sequences very well. The rest of the technical team is just okay.
the films narrative style has also some problems in spite of being a thriller it reveals the murderer in just 20-25 minutes of the film. Then a promising point comes that now the main focus will be how the hero traces the killer but surprisingly that is also done even before the interval so basically nothing is left for the post-interval portion. Even in the climax the final confrontation between the hero and the anti-hero is finished in such way which becomes unintentionally funny.
As a director Mohit Suri has done far better jobs for Bhatt camp, it seems he was not at his ease with his first venture outside Bhatt camp.His story telling style is not up to the mark. Every time there is a dilemma whether it is a romantic story or a thriller. He has experimented in casting too by selecting actors for the roles exactly opposite to their image though the casting is good for the leading cast but the same can not be said for the supporting cast members.
Aamna Sharif has done good job in the small role of Riteish Deshmukh's wife. Kamal R Khan's acting and his character in this movie is just like his real life personality disgusting. Remo Fernandese is a miscast as the underworld don. Shaad Randhawa tries to hard to act and look like a tough cop but his character has no scope neither he has any promising abilities.
There is an unwanted item song too which features Prachi Desai and no matter how the song interrupted the story but Prachi Desai has given appropriate expressions for the song.
Among the technical team the only man who shines is the cinematographer Vishnu Rao. He has shot the under water sequences as well as the action sequences very well. The rest of the technical team is just okay.
The music is main highlight of the film. All the music composers Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari and Soch band should be given credit for the soulful songs.Also the director himself should credit for choosing such melodious songs and using them perfectly with the story. The main hit songs are ofcourse "Galiyaan" and "Banjaare" but the rest of the songs "Zaroorat" and "Humdard" are also good. Only the item song "Awaari" featuring Prachi Desai seems forced into the screenplay.
Overall it is not a soulful love story that will touch your heart neither it is a pacy thriller it is in between of these two. The only saving grace is the melodious songs and some fine acting by the two leading man. Don't go for this with high expectation just give it a try as a one time watch.
Overall it is not a soulful love story that will touch your heart neither it is a pacy thriller it is in between of these two. The only saving grace is the melodious songs and some fine acting by the two leading man. Don't go for this with high expectation just give it a try as a one time watch.
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