Ek Villain (English: One Villain) is a 2014 Indian romantic thriller directed by Mohit Suri.
The film stars Riteish Deshmukh, Sidharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor in lead roles, and tells the story of a hardened criminal whose terminally ill wife is murdered by a serial killer. The film was produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under Balaji Motion Pictures and ALT Entertainment. Upon its release on 27 June 2014, the film received mixed to positive reviews from the critics, and was a commercial success.
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), Aisha's husband, would go on a killing spree. He misguides
Guru by blaming Guru's 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 Aisha's 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 Aisha's husband as she had begged him not to kill her
by saying that she is pregnant.
Rakesh, who now knows Guru's identity, taunts him over the phone
before killing Aisha's 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 Rakesh's 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 Rakesh's son instead of killing him, and completes
the remaining wishes on Aisha's bucket list.
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