Directed by Mohit Suri
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3175038/
Tere hi gunaah laute hai, ek ajnabee ke roop mein tujhe saja dene…
This movie is another case of me connecting to a emotional romantic genre and inspite of various flaws, I end up loving the movie. Sometimes, what a movie makes you feel is important, the flaws takes a backstage then.
The story is of a gangster Guru (Siddharth Malhotra) who meets Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) and in few meetings he falls in love with her because of her innocence and her way of living life. As expected she helps Guru come out of his dark life and start to enjoy life. But, their happy life is destroyed by a serial killer, Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh) who kills Aisha and many other girls because he loves his wife, Sulochana (Aaamna Sharif) a lot, and he feels by killing other girls he can remove the anger he gets towards her or others who insult him, he is basically a emotional lover psycho (bad version of shahrukh from darr). What happens later, is very much predictable.
Mohit Suri isn’t interested in making the narrative full of suspense, as he begins the movie with Rakesh brutally killing Aisha (though I wonder what was the need to dub Riteish voice in that scene, which in 2nd half we see again in his original voice). There are two main plots of movie, one the romance developing between Aisha and Guru, and other is Guru’s revenge of Aisha’s death. And Mohit uses them both in small intervals in a non-linear format with flashbacks quite efficiently.
Special mention to the editor who cuts the past narrative to present beautifully with ‘female galliyaan alaap’ in background and the contradiction of situations in both timelines, like when Aisha tells Guru ‘how she would like to die’ and we are cut to Guru in present, mourning the death of Aisha. Or when Aisha tells Guru ‘to close his eyes and he will find her near him in form of wind’, we are cut to present where Guru is in church and doing the same trying to feel Aisha around him with a very soft background score to accompany the environment. Both were my fav scenes, also the three times Aisha, Guru and Rakesh’s son draw that smiley on the window of jeep. Infact in all these scenes, that galliyaan alaap bg is the common thing. These small romantic elements is what makes a love story touching.
I liked the way Sulochana’s character is written, had she not been as rude and constantly insulting Rakesh, his psycho act won’t had looked convincing. Now comes two flaws, one major and one minor. The minor one is to make Guru find Rakesh so easily by means of co-incidence that Rakesh son arrives at church.. also Mohit Suri cheats with us through flashbacks, in linear format Guru actually finds Rakesh just one day after death of Aisha. Even if I ignore this flaw which the non-linear narration does help to do, the major one is Suri doesn’t literally use Guru’s dialogue ‘main tujhe marne nahi dunga, lekin main tujhe roj maarunga.. ek baar nahi, hazaar baar marunga’. What I wanted was Rakesh getting tremendous torture and beaten badly atleast 2 times more, maybe near his work place or once in public. Infact if you notice, Guru is in that coat-shirt costume since Aisha death until Rakesh is murdered, which I think takes 2 days to happen… so it was in a way just 2 day torture to Rakesh. Easily a opportunity lost by Suri in that regard.
I like the Rakesh-Guru face-off right at interval. Another aspect of movie that irritates is Remo Fernandes, what made Suri sign him and what made him not see how bad accent he’s got. Remo totally spoils that dialogue ‘sher ki asli jagah jungle mein hi hoti hai’. Prashant Narayanan would had been ideal choice for the role or some other good character artist.
The God angle is another common thing in Mohit Suri films but slightly over-done in Ek Villain. I am fine with that lady telling Guru that ‘khuda tumhe saja dega’ but saying ‘ek din tumhara koi apna tumhari aankhon ke saamne marega, aur tum kuch nahi kar sakoge’ was a tad too much. Also, his son whom Guru kills does too much of cliched dialogue ‘bhagwan ke liye mujhe chorh do’.
I ain’t much fond of Milap Zaveri’s dialogues, infact I have hated his work till now in almost every film or even the show ’24’. But for first time, his work is good and many dialogues are worth applauding like that ‘hamdard’ one. Though they edited my fav one from film ‘tere hi gunaah laute hai, ek ajnabee ke roop mein tujhe saja dene’.
Its hard not to adore the love story of Guru-Aisha even though the start of it may look silly. Plus it includes that badly directed scene of mental asylum which has a good Amitabh Bachchan reference which for 2nd time Siddharth gets for himself (actually 1st time, in Hasee toh Phasee it was his character at young age who is shown watching Agneepath). I till now don’t know why Aisha hired Guru to free Chotu when it was so easy to enter and the guards looked that scared.
Not a single song that I dislike, easily best album of year and all of the songs are wonderfully used without halting the narration. Through ‘Banjaara’, Guru starts having a attachment towards Aisha (that shammi kapoor step was edited out, and I was so angry at it) which develops into love with ‘Galliyaan’ which is most romantic song along with ‘Hamdard’ which personally I don’t like much but the visuals are worth it. Then, there’s ‘Zaroorat’, where we see Guru in pain over death of Aisha and it includes Suri’s excellently one shot action scene on ship (just like Raabta in Agent Vinod). Lastly, ‘Awari’, which captures the broken Rakesh after being beaten by Guru and seen his wife taken by police.
Siddharth Malhotra comes out of his chocolate boy image, and in this role that has ample scope to perform, he takes it with open hands and simply doesn’t disappoint. He does falter in his dialogues at few places but overall, his acting is excellent.
Shraddha Kapoor is still coming into her own, improved performance after Aashiqui2, feel she is more comfortable in bubbly non-stop talk scenes rather than the emotional ones where her acting comes out more like delivering lines. Yet, I adore her a lot and she has a amazing screen presence, and how cute she looks when she says ‘lakshmi ko mana nahi karte’ or that angry bird imitation ‘puyiiii’. She still has a long way to go to become a great actor, but I am keeping fingers crossed that she will get better.
Its Riteish Deshmukh who steals the show, he is terrific in each and every scene he is part of, be it his innocent looking husband at home, or worker at office, or his evil psycho side while killing girls. The scene where his psycho side is introduced for 1st time openly is very well done by Suri, also the line given too ‘Phikr mat kijiye madam, aaj ke baad aapko shikayat ka mauka nahi milega’ (like Bob of Kahaani would say a particular line before killing). Also, love the scene where he calls Guru and tells ‘tera talent bhi ajeeb hai, tu gairo ko toh bacha paata hai, lekin apno ko nahi’. And of course how can you not like the final fight scene, and all the dialogues and imitations of Aisha, Riteish does. You only wonder why such a talented actor keeps doing same nonsense comedy movies when he can offer so much more to hindi films.
KRK actually doesn’t irritate (except for his long laugh) and reason for it is the character he plays is such a asshole that you can easily relate KRK playing himself in the movie which he does quite easily.
Overall, Ek Villain works for Siddharth-Shraddha chemistry, Ritesh Deshmukh’s super evil performance and great music. Its still not Mohit Suri’s best direction, but much better than his last two movies.
Note : I haven’t seen the Korean film from which this movie is inspired or copied.. and I don’t really care either.
Verdict : 3.5/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3175038/
Tere hi gunaah laute hai, ek ajnabee ke roop mein tujhe saja dene…
This movie is another case of me connecting to a emotional romantic genre and inspite of various flaws, I end up loving the movie. Sometimes, what a movie makes you feel is important, the flaws takes a backstage then.
The story is of a gangster Guru (Siddharth Malhotra) who meets Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) and in few meetings he falls in love with her because of her innocence and her way of living life. As expected she helps Guru come out of his dark life and start to enjoy life. But, their happy life is destroyed by a serial killer, Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh) who kills Aisha and many other girls because he loves his wife, Sulochana (Aaamna Sharif) a lot, and he feels by killing other girls he can remove the anger he gets towards her or others who insult him, he is basically a emotional lover psycho (bad version of shahrukh from darr). What happens later, is very much predictable.
Mohit Suri isn’t interested in making the narrative full of suspense, as he begins the movie with Rakesh brutally killing Aisha (though I wonder what was the need to dub Riteish voice in that scene, which in 2nd half we see again in his original voice). There are two main plots of movie, one the romance developing between Aisha and Guru, and other is Guru’s revenge of Aisha’s death. And Mohit uses them both in small intervals in a non-linear format with flashbacks quite efficiently.
Special mention to the editor who cuts the past narrative to present beautifully with ‘female galliyaan alaap’ in background and the contradiction of situations in both timelines, like when Aisha tells Guru ‘how she would like to die’ and we are cut to Guru in present, mourning the death of Aisha. Or when Aisha tells Guru ‘to close his eyes and he will find her near him in form of wind’, we are cut to present where Guru is in church and doing the same trying to feel Aisha around him with a very soft background score to accompany the environment. Both were my fav scenes, also the three times Aisha, Guru and Rakesh’s son draw that smiley on the window of jeep. Infact in all these scenes, that galliyaan alaap bg is the common thing. These small romantic elements is what makes a love story touching.
I liked the way Sulochana’s character is written, had she not been as rude and constantly insulting Rakesh, his psycho act won’t had looked convincing. Now comes two flaws, one major and one minor. The minor one is to make Guru find Rakesh so easily by means of co-incidence that Rakesh son arrives at church.. also Mohit Suri cheats with us through flashbacks, in linear format Guru actually finds Rakesh just one day after death of Aisha. Even if I ignore this flaw which the non-linear narration does help to do, the major one is Suri doesn’t literally use Guru’s dialogue ‘main tujhe marne nahi dunga, lekin main tujhe roj maarunga.. ek baar nahi, hazaar baar marunga’. What I wanted was Rakesh getting tremendous torture and beaten badly atleast 2 times more, maybe near his work place or once in public. Infact if you notice, Guru is in that coat-shirt costume since Aisha death until Rakesh is murdered, which I think takes 2 days to happen… so it was in a way just 2 day torture to Rakesh. Easily a opportunity lost by Suri in that regard.
I like the Rakesh-Guru face-off right at interval. Another aspect of movie that irritates is Remo Fernandes, what made Suri sign him and what made him not see how bad accent he’s got. Remo totally spoils that dialogue ‘sher ki asli jagah jungle mein hi hoti hai’. Prashant Narayanan would had been ideal choice for the role or some other good character artist.
The God angle is another common thing in Mohit Suri films but slightly over-done in Ek Villain. I am fine with that lady telling Guru that ‘khuda tumhe saja dega’ but saying ‘ek din tumhara koi apna tumhari aankhon ke saamne marega, aur tum kuch nahi kar sakoge’ was a tad too much. Also, his son whom Guru kills does too much of cliched dialogue ‘bhagwan ke liye mujhe chorh do’.
I ain’t much fond of Milap Zaveri’s dialogues, infact I have hated his work till now in almost every film or even the show ’24’. But for first time, his work is good and many dialogues are worth applauding like that ‘hamdard’ one. Though they edited my fav one from film ‘tere hi gunaah laute hai, ek ajnabee ke roop mein tujhe saja dene’.
Its hard not to adore the love story of Guru-Aisha even though the start of it may look silly. Plus it includes that badly directed scene of mental asylum which has a good Amitabh Bachchan reference which for 2nd time Siddharth gets for himself (actually 1st time, in Hasee toh Phasee it was his character at young age who is shown watching Agneepath). I till now don’t know why Aisha hired Guru to free Chotu when it was so easy to enter and the guards looked that scared.
Not a single song that I dislike, easily best album of year and all of the songs are wonderfully used without halting the narration. Through ‘Banjaara’, Guru starts having a attachment towards Aisha (that shammi kapoor step was edited out, and I was so angry at it) which develops into love with ‘Galliyaan’ which is most romantic song along with ‘Hamdard’ which personally I don’t like much but the visuals are worth it. Then, there’s ‘Zaroorat’, where we see Guru in pain over death of Aisha and it includes Suri’s excellently one shot action scene on ship (just like Raabta in Agent Vinod). Lastly, ‘Awari’, which captures the broken Rakesh after being beaten by Guru and seen his wife taken by police.
Siddharth Malhotra comes out of his chocolate boy image, and in this role that has ample scope to perform, he takes it with open hands and simply doesn’t disappoint. He does falter in his dialogues at few places but overall, his acting is excellent.
Shraddha Kapoor is still coming into her own, improved performance after Aashiqui2, feel she is more comfortable in bubbly non-stop talk scenes rather than the emotional ones where her acting comes out more like delivering lines. Yet, I adore her a lot and she has a amazing screen presence, and how cute she looks when she says ‘lakshmi ko mana nahi karte’ or that angry bird imitation ‘puyiiii’. She still has a long way to go to become a great actor, but I am keeping fingers crossed that she will get better.
Its Riteish Deshmukh who steals the show, he is terrific in each and every scene he is part of, be it his innocent looking husband at home, or worker at office, or his evil psycho side while killing girls. The scene where his psycho side is introduced for 1st time openly is very well done by Suri, also the line given too ‘Phikr mat kijiye madam, aaj ke baad aapko shikayat ka mauka nahi milega’ (like Bob of Kahaani would say a particular line before killing). Also, love the scene where he calls Guru and tells ‘tera talent bhi ajeeb hai, tu gairo ko toh bacha paata hai, lekin apno ko nahi’. And of course how can you not like the final fight scene, and all the dialogues and imitations of Aisha, Riteish does. You only wonder why such a talented actor keeps doing same nonsense comedy movies when he can offer so much more to hindi films.
KRK actually doesn’t irritate (except for his long laugh) and reason for it is the character he plays is such a asshole that you can easily relate KRK playing himself in the movie which he does quite easily.
Overall, Ek Villain works for Siddharth-Shraddha chemistry, Ritesh Deshmukh’s super evil performance and great music. Its still not Mohit Suri’s best direction, but much better than his last two movies.
Note : I haven’t seen the Korean film from which this movie is inspired or copied.. and I don’t really care either.
Verdict : 3.5/5
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