Who was the actual villain in the film ‘Ek Villain’?
Villain meaning – a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot.
If you have seen the film, you may say -Ritesh Deshmukh …. but your answer is wrong!
The actual villain in the cinema is ‘WIFE’! to be precise – Ritesh’s wife in the film.
Wife is the actual evil culprit …in not just this film but I guess worldwide (the reason why probably males spend more time at the bar, consume alcohol and write insulting jokes on wives…and with the advent of Internet & social networks..even share the dirty wife jokes worldwide!!)
In the film Ritesh’s wife was a nagging woman who never left a slightest opportunity to show her husband down. She used to constantly belittle him and thought of him as some incompetent fool capable of doing nothing worthwhile!
This constant insult and nagging turns Ritesh into a maniac, a criminal! Since he could not harm his own wife – fear of society, neighbours plus an indication is given that he loved her after all but never got any respect or even love from her in return – so he used to take out his frustration on any female he happened to interact with and who showed even a wee bit of attitude to him – like raising her voice, complaining attitude, screaming / shouting – like anyone that reminded him of his wife – he killed her!!
So basically Ritesh turns into a villain not because he was originally a villain – he was rather shown to be pretty sensitive and peace loving in fact. For example there is a scene where couple of eunuchs surround them when they were going by an auto-rickshaw and asked them for money – Ritesh gives away almost all his money so as to avoid unnecessary ruckus in the middle of the road (shows peace loving nature). He then gets down and says that he does not have money to pay to the auto-driver (since the eunuchs had taken them all) so asked his wife to get down as well – along with their child (shows his honesty). To this his wife screams back and says that she has the money and she will go by auto – and he can go walking to the movie hall….she used to belittle him often because of his salary and the fact that they were always in dearth of money! So you see folks, being a wife as well as a mother, the female had hardly got any sense of love, warmth or feelings for her own husband!
So in the film…the actual villain stays alive…only the man who was driven to the extent that he turned into a criminal died! Injustice.
Ideally we should ‘Nip the devil in the bud’ – hate the crime, not the criminal…the reason Ritesh committed crimes was because of his wife…wife was the main criminal – the Ek Villain!
