Ek Villain [2014]

IMAGINE "You enter your house and find your loved one harshly slaughtered?" How terrifying it will be!

"Ek Villain" is a remake of the Korean classic "I saw the Devil", the difference being that the original gives more attention to the brutality and not on the Pyaar-Mohabbatein drama.

Director Mohit Suri (Murder 2, Aashiqui 2, Awarapan) undoubtedly good at making crime cinema, but it'd more enjoyable to see him away from his comfort zone. Suri, along with his writers, portrays Sidharth Malhotra (Guru) as a Gunda, and adds a different shade to the character as that of in the Korean classic. Also the lovestory of Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) and Guru runs the film longer. The reason behind portraying the love story was that the audience should realize Sidharth's a.k.a Guru's fall and pains.

Kamaal R Khan plays the role as a friend of the psychotic character Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh) who feels so happy when Rakesh ruins KRK's slave wife. *Whenever KRK showed up, I had a bad feeling of slaughtering the casting crew! Man, I had to grumble so as to avoid my brain fag.* KRK, who works a Midnight Bar, jokes terrible Non-Veg pranks at times. The '2 rupees people' and 'Mu bandh karna padega (showing some vulgar moves) were his magnificent dialogues I have ever seen at the Hindi cinema! Kidding.

A scene comes when Guru goes to kill his Boss Caesar where the protagonist reminded me of my childhood videogames. Sidharth is too bad when it comes to Action. Furthermore, he leaves all his Gundagiri for his love, cures her illness (I don't remember the name of that disease yet?) and later marries her. Searches for a job and later when Aisha gets killed, he spends his time for revenge.

Somewhere in between, Shraddha Kapoor dances awkwardly when the old people get married. Also she jokes horrible 7th grade jokes which will bombard your head. "EK JOKE BOLU?" Oh, what a jerk!

Riteish Deshmukh (Rakesh) is outstanding. He openly admits himself as a character full of beastliness. I still wonder why people were applauding when he said,"Sorry Madam, main aapko shikaayat ka koi mauka aane nahi dunga." The film turned out to be a comedy for a short time. Madman! He kills ladies to release his stress and later keeps on talking with these dead corpses. *Creepy Guy*

The songs are placed where they need to be. *I still keep wondering "What does Galliyan mean?"*

Overall, a good thriller. The climax would not meet your expectations. Go watch only if you can digest intense violence. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

Humshakals [2014]

"KHAO KHUJAO, BATTI BUJAAO"

(This review contains explicit language and a small conversation with my fellow colleague)

Few months ago, I, along with my sister, had visited a dentist who for an unending two hours plucked out a tooth and then drilled a huge gap in my mouth. The soreness was extreme and unbearable but what kept me going was the thought that the sore feeling was purposeful. 'Humshakals' is like that despairing and mournful day, else it doesn’t have any sense as well as understanding.

*Instead of wasting my vacations I decided to take this risk and so, we both, I along with a friend of mine (who was really having a wonderful day), got two entries for Humshakals. We entered the theatre and the movie started paying honor to Jim Carrey and Kishore Kumar, making us feel guilty of buying tickets at the very first moment.*

'Ashok' (Saif Ali) and his Chaddi Buddy 'Kumar' (Riteish Deshmukh) are introduced at first. Ashok is a millionaire and is all set to start his career as a stand-up comedian (Saif Ali needs to join 'Kapil Sharma Tutorials' for this). While Ram Kapoor plays the bad guy 'Mamaji' (alternately 'Kans') who stirves to rob Ashok's property by proving the latter as a mentally unstable man.

*Well, here, "I" was just striving to see a smile on her face (who still was having a wonderful day) and, later then I too forcefully wore a smile even when my mind made no sense of what I saw.*

Okay, so continuing, Ashok and Kumar both are admitted at a mental asylum where they meet their Humshakals with same name. This is the scene where all the shit happens and Sajid just stomps crap through our visualization and wipe his feet on the human desire to be entertained.

*If she (who had never had such a day before) had recorded all of my moaning, murmuring, eye-rolling throughout this movie and brought it up in a single tape, it could be sold as more funnier than the whole of Humshakals. On the grounds that it would be short, lively, much more catchy and easy-going.*

Writers, Sajid Khan (Director) himself along with Robin Bhatt and Akarsh Khurana team up to irritate you and you can see how much do they care about the audience's threshold level of hair-tearing and discomfort. Bipasha Basu, Esha Gupta and Tamannaah Bhatia were just to attract the spectators. About the Music, as far I know, 'Caller Tune' is a chartbuster (I personally HATE this song). Himesh Reshammiya still Sucks! He is Awful.

Concluding, Humshakals is a comedy of things that aren't funny at all. Possibly, you should see it as an example of the low-lying slope that you get for low-pass filters while tracing a Bode sketch. *That was an Engineering term, sorry for that*


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