Starring: Sidharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor
Director: Mohit Suri
Rating: 2 stars
Ek Villain was initially called When Grumpy Met Bubbly.
Grumpy: Hi. This is Grumpy.
Bubbly: Heeyyyyyyyy, what is this sadu face? Come on, chin up!! Okay, shall I crack a joke? Blah blah blah blah blah blah…and I know it’s sad that you were launched in Dah of the Year but look at me…I started with Teen Patti, showed no talent in Luv Ka the End…but I am still smiling. Blah blah blah blah blah blah…Smile, yaar. Be happy, yaar. You know I love people and I maintain a diary. I click pictures of dead people and I pin those pictures in my diary!! I am a bigger psycho than that Riteish Deshmukh. Smile, yaar…don’t be sadu, man…Mohit Suri promises massive churners, SMILLLEEEEEEE!!!
Grumpy: SHAAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAAAPPP!!! [Gunshot]
That pretty much sums up the love story between Grumpy Guru and Bubbly Aisha, the two main characters of Ek Villain.
Without giving away the suspense, however inane and lame that might be, Ek Villain primarily starts with one love story and ends with two. Ramadan Bonanza, I tell you! Ek love story ke saath doosri free!! The first love story converts a badass gangster into a domesticated husband; the second one changes a henpecked husband into a psycho serial killer. So no matter which strata, which walk of life you come from, it’s always the men who have to change. Sob sob!! Tissue please!!
Guru (Sidharth-one-expression-Malhotra) is a gangster with the same old backstory - My parents were killed when I was eight. So I can kill anyone, everyone, and it’s justified. He can’t move a muscle to emote; and this is when he is not even Botoxed. He meets Aisha (Shraddha-as-irritating-as-Asin-in-Ghajini-Kapoor) is a happy, very happy, I mean VERRRRRRRYYYY HAPPPY, pleaaaaase CALM DOWN HAPPY girl who is on a mission to help everyone and finally kill them with her bad jokes. (Dude, I watched Humshakals last week - please have some mercy!) Shraddha’s character is a problem. She is passable in the film though.
Then there is Rakesh (Riteish-last-week-comedy-this-week-intensity-Deshmukh) who is abused and ridiculed by his wife. So he decides to kill other people’s wives. He has a friend too, played by KRK, who gives ‘regressive lines’ a whole new dirtier meaning. He beats his wife and says, “System hame marti hai, duniya hame marti hai, toh hum apni biwi ko marte hain.” Between KRK and Shraddha Kapoor, I couldn’t quite decide who was more irritating!
The philanthropist Ekta Kapoor has not only produced the film but also pulled out her soap queens from their joblessness and given them a few moments back in the limelight in Ek Villian. One of them is a nagging, abusive wife (Aamna Sharif) and the other is an item girl in a pointless item song (Prachi Desai).
The good thing about the film is its cinematography. DOP Vishnu Rao has captured Goa beautifully. I also liked the background score of the film where a mobile phone starts vibrating when someone is killed.
The film didn’t work for me but these films usually work for masses.
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