Ek Villain

The movie starts with Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) calling her husband and leaving a message for him. A mysterious man in a hood breaks into her house, murders her with a screwdriver, and throws her out of the window. At her funeral, CBI officer, Aditya Rathore (Shaad Randhawa), points out to the police, that it is vital to track down the murderer or else Guru Pratap Singh (Sidharth Malhotra), Aishas husband, would go on a killing spree. He misguides Guru by blaming Gurus former boss, a gangster Caeser (Remo Fernandes), for killing Aisha. In a flashback, he reveals that Guru used to work as a hitman for Caeser.

Two years back, Guru had mercilessly killed a young man in a fit of anger, in front of his mother and younger brother. She told Guru that one day God would make him pay for all his crimes.Guru meets new Aisha, a free spirited girl in love with life, who requests him to help her with reuniting two aged lovers. They soon become friends and Aisha reveals to him that she is suffering from a terminal illness, and tells him about her bucket list. Guru helps her fulfill most of those wishes but her health deteriorates.

Falling in love with her, Guru marries Aisha. He tries every means to save her. She receives treatment in Mumbai and miraculously recovers. Few days later she discovers she is pregnant but conceals the fact from Guru. In a parallel story, Rakesh Mahadkar (Riteish Deshmukh) is an unsuccessful and henpecked man who is constantly nagged and ridiculed by his wife Sulochana (Aamna Sharif) for being useless and poor.

He vents out his frustration by murdering women who speak rudely to him, and Aisha turns out to be one of them.In present day, Guru aims to track down Aishas killer. After finding out that it was not Caeser behind the murder, he finally tracks down Rakesh, while he is assaulting another victim. Guru beats Rakesh brutally but later admits him to a hospital and pays for the expenses, intending to return. While at the hospital, Guru finds out that Aisha was pregnant which makes him even more angry.

While assaulting a nurse who had earlier spoken rudely to him, Rakesh is again intercepted by Guru who almost kills him, but revives him again after delivering an adrenaline shot and sets him free. Meanwhile, the police finds out the truth about Rakesh and takes his wife for questioning. Rakesh goes to his friend Brijesh Yadav (Kamaal R Khan), who suggests that Guru must be the husband of one of his victims and is thus taking revenge. He realizes that Guru is Aishas husband as she had begged him not to kill her by saying that she is pregnant.Rakesh, who now knows Gurus identity, taunts him over the phone before killing Aishas father, and then surrenders himself to Aditya.

Rakesh expected Guru to kill him so that he would become a hero in the eyes of his wife and everyone else, while Guru would become a villain. However, Caesar calls Guru at that moment and says that he has killed Rakeshs wife and asks Guru to finish off his son. Enraged, Rakesh injures Guru and is about to kill him when he is run over by a car and dies on the spot. Guru later adopts Rakeshs son instead of killing him, and completes the remaining wishes on Aishas bucket list.Ek Villain received mixed to positive reviews from critics with praise towards performances of Malhotra and Deshmukh.

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama awarded the movie 4/5 stars and wrote that, On the whole, Ek Villain is a stylish, spellbinding and terrifying edge-of-the-seat thriller. Its a step forward in this genre, without doubt. A sure-shot winner! Raedita Tandon from Filmfare gave the film 4/5 stars and stated that, Though indulgent in parts, Ek Villain packs in a punch. Copy of a Korean film or not, it's ‘good' paisa vasool entertainment. Meena Iyer of The Times of India gave the film 3 stars in a scale of 5, stating that You cannot fault the scale of Ek Villain or berate its lead star cast.

But you wish you could celebrate this thriller like you did Suris last movie outing Aashiqui 2. This one lacks soul. Aparna Mudi of Zee News gave the film a rating of 2.5/5 stars, concluding her review that The unveiling of the visceral saga has a lot of strong characters and Mohit has done a good job in adapting a foreign film and complimenting it with the drama that the Indian audience is used to. But he has gone a tad over in making a thriller.

Maybe, filmmakers should step out of this trap more often and we wouldn`t be too far from making beacons of world cinema. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN stated that Im going with two-and-a-half out of five for Ek Villain. If youre still wondering, the real villain here is the lousy script. Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film 2 stars, commenting that Suri is an innate story-teller, and can keep things moving. All he needs is a strong, all-the-way credible, original plot.

Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV rated the film 2/5 and wrote that As a whole, this film, besides its surface flair, does not have too much to fall back upon. Watch it only if that is good enough for you. Raja Sen of Rediff gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, stating that Given free tickets, sure, you could escape Humshakals in theatres this weekend with this mediocre effort, but I say do yourself a favour and seek out the Korean DVD. (Uncover it, even.

) Now that's bloody special.