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Starring: Bobby Deol,
Shreya Saran, Nana Patekar, Sachin Khedekar, Chunky
Pandey, Jackie Shroff, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Akshay
Kapoor, Raghuveer Yadav, Zarina Wahab
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Ek – The Power of One is the Hindi remake of Telugu
super hit Athadu which starred Mahesh Babu as the
criminal and Prakash Raj as the cop.
The film isn't new-age cinema by any standards, but it
holds your interest at several moments. There are
emotional moments in the archetypal big Indian parivar,
some comedy thrown in and its more of a drama with
double cross and romance in this action film.
The story is about Nandu (Bobby Deol) who becomes an
orphan after he is born. The harsh realities of an
orphan's life have turned him into a hard criminal. He
doesn’t know what love is nor has any feelings of
compassion and humanity. He becomes a hit man from his
childhood days.
Now, an opposition leader
Anna Mhatre (Sachin Khedekar) hires Nandu to assassinate
himself, while he is addressing a rally for his election
campaign - with the intention of getting sympathy
support. But just before Nandu is able to lock his
target, much to his surprise and disbelief, some one
else shoots Anna Mhatre, leading to the cold blooded
murder of the politician. Nandu somehow manages to
escape from there, by leaping onto a running train.
CBI Inspector Rane (Nana Patekar), is given the
responsibility of tracking down the killer and is after
Nandu.
Nandu is welcomed by the entire family, including Preet
(Puran’s family friend’s daughter) who has moved in to
stay with the family after her father’s death. She falls
for Nandu the moment she sees him, unaware of the actual
fact.
Nandu fears that by breaking the news of Puran’s death,
it could breaking their heart on such a nice occasion.
So he starts living the false identity and develops
strong attachment with the family.
Now he realizes that he has missed out a lot in life.
The love and affection he gets from the family, and even
as Preet who tries to woo him, he cannot help but fall
in love with her. At the same time, he tries to help the
family members out of their problems. Somewhere along
the way, he begins to soften and starts developing
emotions.
Cast:
Nandu - Bobby Deol
CBI Inspector Rane - Nana Patekar
Preeti - Shreya Saran
Anna Mhatre - Sachin Khedekar
Balli - Chunky Pandey
Savte - Jackie Shroff
Kripal Singh- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Puran - Akshay Kapoor
Guru - Gurpreet Guggi
Shekhar - Pradeep Kharab
Joshi- Raghuveer Yadav
Chaudhary- Rana Jung Bahadur
Puran's mother - Zarina Wahab
Amrik Singh Nasa- Jaspal Bhatti
Upasna Singh
Sanjay Mishra
Ritu Vij
Preeti Bhutani
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On the train
Nandu befriends Puran (Akshay Kapoor), a simple boy who is
returning to his homeland Punjab after a long gap. In his
excitement of returning to his grand father and the family
after so long, Puran narrates his side of the story to
Nandu about his joint family and his cousin’s wedding that
he is going to attend.
However the police catch up with Nandu while the train
halts at a station, and shoot at him but incidentally,
Puran gets shot and dies on the spot. Before the cops
close in, Nandu escapes and manages to reach Puran’s
family home in his village to return his grandfathers
belongings and also to break the news of his grandson's
death to him. However it turns out that Puran’s family
mistakes Nandu for Puran and makes him a part of the
celebration at home.
Here the CBI officer Rane manages to trace down Nandu to
the village and meets him as well. Here onwards, what
follows next forms the rest of the film wherein many
shocking secrets get revealed.
Director Sangeeth Sivan’s film takes you back to the era
where the hero jumps from an under-construction skyscraper
straight onto a moving train, then he fights a bunch of
villains single-handedly. The action appears stylish and
realistic thanks to Peter Hein.
The only drawback of this film is that the director has
tried to squeeze in the dramatic moments, emotional
situations, comic scenes and romantic portions alongwith
action. The cinematography is just right, while in acting
department, it is Nana Patekar who steals the show.
Bobby Deol is good in action scenes and also carries the
intense look with ease. Shriya Sharan is just beautiful
all throughout, of course she acts too. Kulbhushan
Kharbanda, Jackie Shroff, Chunkey Pandey, Zareena Wahab
and Raghubir Yadav do their parts well, though not much of
scope for them.
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Amarjeet
Credits & Crew:
Banner - K Sera Sera, Dharam Films
Producer - Jaswant Khera
Executive Producer - Jaswant Khera
Director - Sangeeth Sivan
Lyrics - Shabbir Ahmed, Mayur Puri
Music Director - Pritam Chakraborty
Cinematography - T Ramji
Choreography - Piyush Panchal, Remo D'Souza
Action - Peter Heins
Art - Narendra Rahurikar
Editor - Chirag Jain
Screenplay - Pankaj Trivedi, Sachin Shah
Sound Design - Pradeep Suri
Dialogue - Pankaj Trivedi, Sachin Shah
Costume - Falguni Thakore
Media Relations - Parag Desai
Singers - Sukhwinder Singh, Sunidhi Chauhanm Shaswati,
Abhijeet, Shreya Ghosal, Rana Mazumder
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