Ek Villain: Difference between revisions

| starring      = [[Sidharth Malhotra]]<br />[[Shraddha Kapoor]]<br />[[Riteish Deshmukh]]<br />[[Aamna Sharif]]<br />[[Shaad Randhawa]]<br />[[Asif Basra]]<br />[[Remo Fernandes]]<br />[[Kamaal Rashid Khan]]

| music          = ''' Songs:'''<br />[[Ankit Tiwari]]<br />[[Mithoon]]<br />Soch - The Band<br />'''Score:'''<br />[[Raju Singh]]

'''''Ek Villain: There's One in Every Love Story''''' is a 2014 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller film]] directed by [[Mohit Suri]] and produced by [[Shobha Kapoor]] and [[Ekta Kapoor]] under [[Balaji Motion Pictures]]. Based on a script written by [[Tushar Hiranandani]] and [[Milap Zaveri|Milap Milan Zaveri]], it stars [[Sidharth Malhotra]], [[Shraddha Kapoor]], [[Riteish Deshmukh]]<ref name="Reviews" /> and [[Aamna Sharif]], and is about a hardened criminal whose terminally ill wife is murdered by a sadistic serial killer.

This marked the first time Deshmukh portraying a negative role. It was released worldwide on 27 June 2014 and received positive reviews from critics, garnering praise for the theme, direction, screenplay and performances. Made on a budget of {{INR|link=yes|390}} million, the film became a major box-office success with earnings of over {{INR|1}} billion domestically and a worldwide gross of {{INR|1.7}} billion.

 

Malhotra and Deshmukh later reunited for the 2019 masala actioner ''[[Marjaavaan]]'', in which Deshmukh's entry as the antagonist was accompanied by him singing the award-winning song "[[Galliyan]]" from the ''Ek Villain'' soundtrack. A sequel, ''[[Ek Villain Returns]]'', starring [[Arjun Kapoor]] and [[John Abraham]] as replacements in the male leads, along with [[Disha Patani]] and [[Tara Sutaria]] as the female leads, is in development.

A young woman, Aisha Verma ([[Shraddha Kapoor]]), tries to leave behind a message for her husband, Guru Divekar ([[Sidharth Malhotra]]), who then calls her, but the call is disrupted when a masked man enters Aisha's house and kills her by throwing her off the window. At her funeral, [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]] officer Aditya Rathore ([[Shaad Randhawa]]) points out that it is vital to track down the murderer or else Guru will go on a killing spree. Guru's past is shown in flashbacks. He used to be a ruthless hitman working for mob boss Caeser ([[Remo Fernandes]]), who raised and trained him so that Guru could have a chance to murder the goons who killed his parents. Guru is arrested for killing a young man, Debu, but is bailed, as Debu's mother, a witness, refuses to testify against him. She warns Guru that she did not testify because one day, God will make him pay for his crimes, and he will also lose a loved one.

Guru meets Aisha, an optimistic girl dying from a terminal illness. She seeks his help to save "Chhotu," an elderly man, from a mental asylum. Guru saves him for Aisha and takes part in Chhotu's wedding with Sheela, in accordance with both Christian and Hindu customs and rituals. Aisha's diary, which depicts her wishes, falls in the ''Mandap'', and Guru picks it up. His friend interprets the wishes, written in English, but the last wish, "to save a life", leaves Guru enraged. Later, as he finds her clicking a photograph of Chhotu's deceased wife's funeral, he confronts her angrily, questioning her views on life and death and accusing her of projecting a positive image in front of everyone, but with a smile full of pain, she reveals to Guru that the wishes in the diary are her last wishes, as she is suffering from a terminal illness. He decides to help her complete her bucket list before she dies. They fall in love and get married. Guru leaves behind his old life and gets a job while Aisha receives treatment in Mumbai and recovers. She discovers she is pregnant and decides to tell Guru in person as he is returning from his interview, but is murdered before she can. Across a parallel story, Rakesh Mahadkar ([[Riteish Deshmukh]]) is an unsuccessful and henpecked man who is constantly ridiculed by his wife Sulochana ([[Aamna Sharif]]) for his shortcomings, though he still loves her. He vents out his frustration by murdering other women who speak rudely to him or have some complaint about him, and Aisha turns out to be one of them.

Back in the present, Guru finally hunts down Rakesh and brutally beats him, then admits him to a hospital and pays for the expenses, intending to return and keep beating him. At the hospital, Guru learns that Aisha was pregnant, which breaks him even more. While assaulting a nurse ([[Rishina Kandhari]]), Rakesh is again intercepted by Guru, who kills him, then revives him with an intracardiac injection and sets him free with a threat to his life. Meanwhile, the police finds out about Rakesh and takes Sulochana for questioning about Rakesh as the officers doubt on him being the one who is responsible for all those recent murders of women in Mumbai. Rakesh realizes that Guru is Aisha's husband and is taking revenge.

Rakesh taunts Guru over the phone before killing Aisha's father Aadesh ([[Asif Basra]]). He expects Guru to kill him so that he'll become a "hero" in the eyes of Sulochana and everyone else while Guru will be tarnished. However, Caesar calls Guru and says that he has killed Sulochana but left his little son Manish for Guru to kill. Enraged, Rakesh fights Guru but is run over by a car and dies before he can kill him. Guru adopts Manish instead of killing him and completes the remaining wishes on Aisha's bucket list.

* [[Sidharth Malhotra]] as Guru Divekar: Aisha's Husband: a former culprit

* [[Shraddha Kapoor]] as Aisha Verma / Aisha Guru Divaker: Guru's wife, killed by Rakesh

* [[Riteish Deshmukh]] as Rakesh Raghu Mahadkar: A psychotic killer, Aisha's murderer

* [[Aamna Sharif]] as Sulochana Rakesh Mahadkar, Rakesh's frustrated wife

* Md Azimul Islam Sheblu as Alif