Ek Villain (2014)

Simply A Masterpiece

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The first time when I saw the trailer, I felt I think I know this story and I was trying to recall the movie which had the same concepts, then I remembered "I saw the Devil", a South-Korean epic movie which is one of my favourite movie of all time. Well, guess what, after watching "Ek Villain" like after 25 minutes, I walked out in disgust. I was totally gutted. Bollywood has always been poor in terms of everything. This proved everything in just one movie. No innovative ideas, no self creation, no effects, no good actors. Bollywood keeps betraying people by cheating. If the movies can't be remade better than the original, then these pathetic Bollywood should stop making remakes. If anyone is thinking to watch this movie, then they should better watch the original Korean movie "I saw the Devil" before or after, anytime, South-Korean movies are too good. After you watch the original, you will spit on this movie "Ek Villain". You will know you are betrayed. No wonder why movie piracy in India is more fair to be honest.

This is very good movie. Very emotional. Cinematography is very good. One thing I didn't liked the villain :p . Such a stupid villain. This charter should be given to a better actor. Yes "Ritesh Deshmukh". NOT suitable for this role. Here other tough actor would more suit.The reason of this serial killer is also lame. The story Line should have changed in this reasoning. The serial killer reasoning should be justified more deeply. Some ideas should have taken from the "Dark knight" Other than this movie is fantastic. Very romantic.Hope to see more films like this

Indian filmmakers have been known to be inspired by other, esp foreign, films. Ek Villain is another addition to such bolly movies, inspired by the South Korean psychological/thriller-horror flick "I Saw The Devil". But the problem with Ek Villain is that to make it commercially viably the makers tone down the Korean movie's blood and gore, add love and songs and give a reason to the audience to empathize with the Villain/Devil. And what is the end result? Read on...******* Spoilers Ahead for both Ek Villain AND I saw The Devil *************Starting with positive things firstWhat I liked- -THE MUSIC!! The best thing about Ek Villain is it's music. Each and every song is of the kind which stays in your memory for a long time. The lyricists, musicians and singers have done an awesome job on the sound track. Kudos to them. Riteish's attempt to try a new kind of role. Negative roles were what gave Shahrukh Khan's career a push. If the same is true for Riteish's is a mystery only time can solve. But he gets well into his character's skin of a total psycho who loves his wife too much to see even a scratch on her no matter how much she hates him but won't stop from strangling any other woman who mistreats him.A brooding no-nonsense Siddharth Malhotra, yes his fans won't be disappointed. And neither will Shraddha's, she looks gorgeous.Romance between the lead pair. It wasn't the best "love story", seemed made up and was cheesy at times, but it wasn't all that bad either. The chemistry between the main characters surely makes you feel for them. Now to the worse parts What I didn't like - The portrayal of women. It feels as if Riteish might have carried an "ALL GIRLS PLEASE BE RUDE TO ME" sign on him that he was so mistreated by so many women, so regularly!! The way those girls treat him, confused me if Riteish was actually a psycho, or was he just a normal guy and the girls were the real "Villains". India does not such portrayals of women when cases like "Nirbhaya" still exist here. Which brings me to the next thing I didn't like. A toned down, glossed over, Devil. The makers of Ek Villain tried to give a "reason" to the villain for hating women. In "I saw the devil", Kyung Chul hates/lusts-after all girls, no matter how nice they are to him. Which means you end up being terrified every time ANY girl is in his presence. He never "needed" a reason to hate a woman and that's how a character, whom you expect to portray as a "psychopath", is supposed to be. The moment the audience is successful in rationalizing a psychopath's actions, is the moment you fail to make him a true psychopath and make the audience less terrified of him. Remember Alfred's "Some men just want to watch the world burn" quote from The Dark Knight? Doesn't it fit perfectly for the most hated villain in recent times- The Joker? I would have loved to see Riteish's character be the same as Kyung Chul's was in the original film. A romantic back story. Even if the romance was cute and nice, doesn't mean it was needed in the script. In I saw The Devil, the Hero's wife exists for just two scenes. Being inspired from a "revenge" flick, the makers should have stuck with the original premise, as adding the romantic bits, made the actual revenge less satisfying even to the point of unnecessary. It made me feel as romantic parts are overshadowing the "Reveng-y" parts. That clearly shows in the different ways in which The Devil died in "I saw" and the way The Villain died in Ek Villain. So at the end it is to say that Ek Villain's hero was unsuccessful in getting his revenge- killing the Villain. So much for being inspired from a "Revenge Flick". Maybe the makers should have just made a romantic or a feel good film instead of trying to gloss over the story of a world class revenge-thriller-horror film.The cancer story. When that happened in Ek Villain I was like- "Where did that even come from?????" A heroin who has cancer, just to be cured in the end? Was the cancer added as an unnecessary sob story, or was it just a prop for the hero to feel something for the girl? I am still confused. Makers of Ek Villain, please take note- "A girl does not have to be a cancer patient to be loved by the hero."If you are a die hard of I saw the devil, I say, don't expect this movie to do justice to I saw. And watch at your own risk. For all those who haven't seen I saw, and want a real "revenge-thriller-horror" movie, watch that one instead of Ek Villain. For all those who want good music, some romance, elements of real life, mixed with a dark tragic story, and a girl's continuous chatter, you might come to like Ek Villain.

I've recently watched this film and at first i thought at least it got a good plot. Then i got to know that it actually ripped off a Korean film called "I saw the devil". After seeing that film i could see why many people are bashing this film.One thing i don't understand is how could people actually stand that annoying bitch shraddha kapoor and her irritating acting.i don't care if you think iam a horrible person but i actually enjoyed the scene where she gets killed, i was cheering and rooting for her killer. She tried to act like an innocent and adorable girl but instead she comes of so annoying that at some point i myself wanted to kill her. Now let talk about the lead actor siddharth kapoor, the director must have asked him to carry a serious expression on his face and he did a good job at carrying that single depressed look through the film without showing any improvement . people are calling him the next big star of Indian cinema? for godsake there is nothing special about this guy. i never thought i would say this but Ritesh deshmukh actually acted pretty well in this film. he is the only saving grace in this "excuse for the filmmaking" I got nothing to say about the director. i'm not a very big fan of his other films too. i always thought that there is alake of realism in his films.the original korean film is bloody,gritty,well acted, short and straight to the point. this copy is every thing that's opposite to that. if you like the music just buy it on i tunes or buy a cd ..but good music is not an excuse to watch a movie this bad.