Cast: Arjun Kapoor, John Abraham, Disha Patani and Tara Sutaria
Director: Mohit Suri
Another pulpy action thriller from Mohit Suri is here in the form of #ekvillainreturns starring #johnabraham #dishapatani #arjunkapoor #tarasutaria in lead roles. If only it had the elements right.
Normally Mohit Suri movies are pulpy thrillers with good music to accentuate the intense action.
EK Villain with Siddharth Malhotra in 2014 was a remake of the Korean classic I saw the Devil.
Albeit not as sophisticated, Suri presented a movie with its own twist and soulful score which resonated with the masses.
However, the sequel was just not expected. There is barely a connect to the original Ek Villain in the Ek Villain Returns script by just mentioning Ritesh Deskmukh’s character.
8 years have passed, and another serial killer is on the circuit. The catch? This time this killer is only targeting women who have unrequited lovers.
So, if you are a woman who have dated a guy and then found him incompatible or led the guy down a path to love and then walked out of the relationship.
So basically, this psycho killer wants to be the vigilante or jilted men lovers.
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Terrible screenplay, appalling acting and incompetent storytelling, Ek Villain Returns pushes all of that down our senses and overwhelmed the mickey out of his audiences.
The film wants to generate anxiety and thrills but all it does is deliver a series of spotty scenes that would be ludicrous has they not been stitched together.
Ek Villain Returns tries to desperately sound coherent by touting the philosophy about the line separating darr (fear) and pyaar (love) but lands just nowhere.
The film kicks off with , singer Aarvi Malhotra (Tara Sutaria), going missing.
The alarm bells begin to ring: the ‘Smiley Killer’ is back with a vengeance. ACP Ganesan (JD Chakravarthy), a self-styled criminal psychologist, alleges that he knows the identity of the masked killer. His colleagues in the police force are not so sure.
The film goes back and forth between the present day and either six or three months earlier to track the parallel stories of two hunks who wander around looking for food.
One of these guys is a rich businessperson’s rebellious son Gautam Mehra (Arjun Kapoor). He gatecrashes the wedding of his ex and makes a scene. Aarvi, the scene and posts it on social. Gautam earns quick infamy.
, Gautam tracks down Aarvi at a music festival and begins to hang around her with the specific intention of revenge. He offers to help the wannabe pop singer eliminate a famous rival – Qiran “with a Q” – out of her way. The smiley mask comes back to the story and Aarvi is successful. Our fav bod,John Abraham, is Bhairav Purohit, a zookeeper, part-time cabbie and shopaholic who buys a shirt a day from salesgirl
Rasika Mapuskar (Disha Patani). In short, both the male leads are stalkers.
And then the psychopathic killer is awarded a halo.
The women in the movie might as well have been a part of the furniture ensemble.
The dialogues written by Aseem Arora really account for some uncomfortable and cringe worthy moments in watching the movie.
That 36/34 dialogue should be sent to a deep abyss somewhere in below the surface of the planet.
Apparently the serial killer has killed 15 young women, but Ek Villain Returns is disinclined to giving the victims (barring one) faces, lives and significant stories that could create any room empathy for them.
Infact, it ends up blaming the women for how they have ended up. It accentuates the theory that these girls deserved the death, a violent one at that, and the psychopath had good reasons.
We reiterate that Arjun Kapoor, even after all his weight loss should not be in the business of acting. Our favorite hunk John Abraham competes with him.
The women are there just for the embellishment.
The movie is a mixture of incoherence. Not one word in the movie, not one scene, nor one dialogue that it fashions makes any sense. It propagates perilous notions about love and its consequences. And that’s that.
