''Ek Villain: There's One in Every Love Story'' is a 2014 Indian
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
-language
action thriller film
Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life ...
directed by
Mohit Suri and produced by
Shobha Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor (born 1 February 1949) is an Indian television, film and web series producer. She is the managing director of Balaji Telefilms Limited, a film, TV and web series production house in Mumbai, India, run by her and her daughter Ekt ...
and
Ekta Kapoor
Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) is an Indian television producer, film producer and director who works in Hindi cinema and soap opera. She is the joint managing director and creative head of Balaji Telefilms Limited, which was founded in 1994. ...
under
Balaji Motion Pictures
Balaji Motion Pictures is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Balaji Telefilms Limited which is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Shobha Kapoor and her daughter Ekta Kapoor. Based in Mumbai, it produces and d ...
. Based on a script written by
Tushar Hiranandani
Tushar Hiranandani (born 13 July) is an Indian film writer. He grew up around the world of films as his grandfather Hiranand Hiranandani and father Ashok Hiranandani were Hindi film distributors and had a company called Black and White film dis ...
and
Milap Milan Zaveri
Milap Milan Zaveri, also known as Milap Zaveri, is an Indian film director and writer who has worked in blockbusters like ''Shootout at Wadala'', ''Satyameva Jayate'' and ''Marjaavaan''. He started his career as a dialogue writer in 2002 with th ...
, it stars
Riteish Deshmukh
Riteish Vilasrao Deshmukh (born 17 December 1978) is an Indian actor, comedian, television presenter, writer, director and film producer. He is the son of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh. He works in Hindi and Marathi cin ...
,
Siddharth Malhotra
Sidharth Malhotra (; born 16 January 1985) is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood, Hindi films. He began his career as a fashion model, but left it to pursue an acting career. He made his acting debut with a minor role in th