Ek : The Power of One is a 2009 Bollywood action thriller film starring Bobby Deol, Shriya Saran and Nana Patekar in lead role. It is a remake of the Telugu-language film Athadu.
- Directer : Sangeeth Sivan
- Producer : Jasswant Khera
- Screenplay : Trivikram Srinivas
- Story : Trivikram Srinivas
- Starring : Bobby Deol,Shriya Saran,Nana Patekar
- Music / Songs : Pritam
- Background Score : Sanjoy Chowdhury
- Cinematography : T Ramji
- Editor : Chirag Jain
- Distributor : K Sera Sera,Dharam Films
- Release date : 27 March 2009
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
- Box office : Rs. 6 crore
Trailer of the film :
Story of the film :
Nandu (Bobby Deol) 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 (Akshay Kapoor), 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 grandfathers 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 (Shriya Saran), who is the daughter of Puran’s grandfather’s friend is in awe of Nandu and falls in love with him. CBI Inspector Rane (Nana Patekar), is given the responsibility of tracking down the killer and is after Nandu.
At the end, Nandu realizes that his friend Shekar (Pradeep Kharab) 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.
Star Cast of the film :
- Bobby Deol as Nandkumar ‘Nandu’ Sharma / ‘Fake’ Puran Singh
- Shriya Saran as Preet
- Pradeep Kharab as Shekhar
- Sanjay Mishra as Advocate Parminder Singh
- Sachin Khedekar as Opposition Minister Anna Mhatre
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Kripal Singh
- Nana Patekar as CBI Inspector NandKumar Rane
- 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 (Special Appearance)
- Preeti Bhutani as Nandni
- Jaspal Bhatti as Amrik Singh Nasa
- Upasana Singh as Manjeet bua
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as 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
Music / Song of the film :
The music composer is Pritam and all song writer is Shabbir Ahmed except the song ‘Bang Bang’ was writter is Mayur Puri.
- Sambhale……………………………Sukhwinder Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan
- Sona Lagda………………………….Shashwati Phukan
- Tum Saath Ho……………………….Shreya Ghoshal, Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- Bang Bang……………………………..Rana Mazumder
- Sona Lagda (Kilogram Mix)…….Shashwati Phukan
Review of the film :
Mostly average to negative review, mostly from all major critics and also Box office unsuccessful movie.
Box office Collection of the film :
According to Box office India reports this film declared is Flop.
- First Day………….1 crores rs.
- Saturday………….0.99 crores rs.
- Sunday……………1.22 crores rs.
- First Weekend………..3.22 crores rs.
- Monday……………0.45 crores rs.
- Tuesday…………..0.42 crores rs.
- First Week……………..4.71 crores rs.
- Lifetime India (net)……7 crores rs.
- Worldwide Gross………9 crores rs.