Catchy songs likely to make the film a hit.
By Tathagata Mitra
BANGALORE: Mohit Suri’s new film ‘Ek Villain’ is getting plenty of buzz. As if capturing the attention of all Bollywood lovers through the songs and the teasers wasn’t enough, now there is a brand new trailer and it seems to focus more on the villainous aspects of ‘Ek Villain’.
‘Har love story me ek hero hota hai, ek heroine, aur ek villain’ narrates Shraddha Kapoor’s character, Aisha. She continues, ‘Par ye love story ek villain ki hai.’ What she means is her hero in this love story, Guru, played by newbie Siddharth Malhotra is a villain, or at least a bad guy. The trailer goes on to elaborate how Aisha, the heroine of the story will change her hero through love.
Changing the nature of a man through love is nothing new in Bollywood. It has appeared time and again in mainstream Hindi films and in many forms. How many of us remember Kaala Patthar (1979), where Shatrughan Sinha transformed into a decent man through the help of Neetu Singh and a few nicely timed dance numbers? Even in Gunday, released earlier this year, we see Ranveer Singh giving up all his black market shenanigans for Priyanka Chopra.
The trailer gets interesting when it introduces Villain No. 2, as in the villain who stays a villain throughout the film, a. k. a Rakesh played by Riteish Deshmukh. Rakesh is a serial killer who is hunting down women to satisfy his inner urges. ‘Tum sab ke nikalti jaan ke saath meri sab chilnta saari stress bhi nikal jati hai’ narrates Rakesh now as we see the cold blooded murderer at his job.
The banners read ‘Witness a love story with no heroes’ as we have a look at the two villains taking it out on each other.
The trailer stitches shots to create the sense of thrill, fear, hope and romanticism, all of which is necessary for a film like ‘Ek Villain’, a romantic thriller, as director Mohit Suri calls it. Not only do we witness some of the raw action sequences, along with some of the romantic sequences, but we also get the first real look at Ritesh Deshmukh as the villain of the story. Riteish’s dark cold stare that we see in the trailer as he murders, hits or even gets hit, is certainly a side of the actor that we have never seen before.
The music used in the trailer is also the perfect addition to the mood that it tries to create, ‘a deep sense of loss of a loved one’. Ankit Tiwari and Mithoon seem to have done a good job for this film which is about to hit the theatres on June 27.