Ek: The Power of One
Ek: The Power of One is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film starring Bobby Deol, Nana Patekar and Shriya Saran. It is a remake of the Telugu-language film Athadu (2005).[3][4][5][6]
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Directed by | Sangeeth Sivan |
Screenplay by | Trivikram Srinivas |
Based on | Athadu by Trivikram Srinivas |
Produced by | Jasswant Khera |
Starring | Bobby Deol Nana Patekar Shriya Saran |
Cinematography | Ramji |
Edited by | Chirag Jain |
Music by | Score: Sanjoy Chowdhury Songs: Pritam |
Distributed by | K Sera Sera Dharam Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 146 minutes[1] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Box office | ₹6 crore[2] |
Plot
Nandu an orphan turned assassin, somehow gets wrongly accused of a politician's murder and is on the run. On his escapade on a train, he meets Puran, who is homebound after eighteen years, they get chatting, and Nandu finds all about his joint family and the wedding of Puran's sister that he is going to attend.
However, the police catch up with Nandu on the train and shoot at him, but Puran gets hit accidentally and dies on the spot. Nandu goes to Puran's family home in his village to return his grandfather's watch 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. He thinks that it is his responsibility to fulfill the deeds the Puran had to fulfill.
Preet, who is the daughter of Puran's grandfather's friend, is in awe of Nandu and falls in love with him. CBI Inspector Rane, is given the responsibility of tracking down the killer and is after Nandu.
At the end, Nandu realizes that his friend Shekar is behind everything. He has a tape of his innocence and gives it to Inspector Rane. He then goes back to Puran's family and lives with them.
Cast
- Bobby Deol as Nandkumar 'Nandu' Sharma / 'Fake' Puran Singh
- Shriya Saran as Preet Kaur
- Nana Patekar as CBI Inspector Nandkumar Rane
- Pradeep Kharab as Shekhar
- Sanjay Mishra as Advocate Parminder Singh
- Sachin Khedekar as Opposition Minister Anna Mhatre
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Kripal Singh
- Jackie Shroff as Savte (special appearance)
- Zarina Wahab as Gayatri bua
- Gurpreet Ghuggi as Guru
- Rana Ranbir as Dev
- Akshay Kapoor as Puran Singh
- Raghuveer Yadav as minister Joshi
- Vikramjeet Virk as in a (special appearance)
- Preeti Bhutani as Nandni
- Jaspal Bhatti as Amrik Singh Nasa
- Upasana Singh as Manjeet bua
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as Deputy inspector general of police DIG Shergill
- Ritu Vij as Balbir
- Anant Jog as Police Inspector
- Chunky Pandey as Balli
- Rana Jung Bahadur as Chaudhary
- Shishir Sharma as CBI Chief
- Simran Deepali as Channo
- Ajaz Khan as Anna Mhatre's son
Soundtrack
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Released | 2009 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Pritam Chakraborty chronology | ||||
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The songs of the film were composed by Pritam Chakraborty, and the song "Bang Bang" was written by Mayur Puri.
No. | Title | Singers | Lyrics | Length |
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1 | "Sambhale" | Sukhwinder Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan | Shabbir Ahmed | 5:45 |
2 | "Sona Lagda" | Shashwati Phukan | Shabbir Ahmed | 5:09 |
3 | "Tum Saath Ho" | Shreya Ghoshal, Abhijeet Bhattacharya | Shabbir Ahmed | 5:21 |
4 | "Bang Bang" | Rana Mazumder | Mayur Puri | 5:40 |
5 | "Sona Lagda" (Kilogram Mix) | Shashwati Phukan | Shabbir Ahmed | 3:54 |
References
- "Ek - The Power of One". British Board of Film Classification.
- "Dashavtaar Opens To A Poor Response". Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network. 18 April 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- "Ek – the Power of One Review 2/5 | Ek – the Power of One Movie Review | Ek – the Power of One 2009 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama. 27 March 2009.
- "Review: Ek – the Power of One". 27 March 2009.
- Malani, Gaurav. "Ek - the Power of One: Movie Review". The Economic Times.
- https://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-reviews/reviews-2/ek.html