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Ek Villain

Posted by : Unknown Sunday, July 6, 2014

There's one in every love story, says the motto of Ek Villan, and the film strains every sinew to justify it. The three main characters - Guru unloved orphans become a gunslinger bully girl Aisha pretty busy checking items from a to-do list, and Rakesh stinging-low-daily-humiliation-hard working - bounce off each other, resulting in a film sprayed on the corny romance and shocking violence.

Mohit Suri has a gift for vivid characterization, though some things are a bit stressed too. He also does a good job with the fabric of high octane moments around their characters. So I do not really know a twig hokeyness plot to begin with as guru (Malhotra) and severity dissolved in softness with the parrot is sprightly Aisha (Kapoor) and Rakesh (Deshmukh) becomes increasingly aware of their oppressed state overnight. Then begins a series of murders, and a race to the bloody end.

But soon start noticing the lanosidad of history, which has more than a passing resemblance to a Korean cult slasher film, while confusingly weaves back and forth in time, from lovers singing of gruesome murders. The tone becomes inconsistent. Balancing Ek Villain between drama and melodrama is its weakness: the parts I bought kept me engrossed, and then I was back in those in which he could not suspend disbelief. A cop says: “Usne usi jagaah panaah li hai jahaan usne gunaah kiya“ in a mushaira, police can turn even a poetic, but alliterating, in the heat of the moment, and panaah Gunaah?

This was fine for the 80's Bollywood, when writers lavished dialog couplets about cops and robbers and lovers, his punches when heroes villains slowed to recite his pun-laden lines for our enjoyment. But now the device smells artifice. And get the performances in this film apart from the cables, there is a libertine (KRK) shooting tips on how to "keep the wives in control." He's enough to make you want to keep away from all the actual women.

Shraddha Kapoor is slowly improving, and has a couple of points higher when the audience laughs with her. Sidharth Malhotra is watchable even if you have difficulty doing this threat - it looks so pretty and healthy all the time, even when he is creaking bones. Riteish Deshmukh is sweeping the stakes, with dead eyes and talk at the same time. Deshmukh has played second and third wheel fourth-rate comedies, and always managed to remain visible. Here, he made me sit and watch.
Suri is a born storyteller, and can keep things moving. All you need is a strong, all-the-way credible, original plot.