Nandu (Bobby Deol) is an orphan. At a very young age, he joins a gang of thugs and commits his first murder. Along with him is Shekhar (Pradeep Kharab) who is as young as Nandu and being an orphan has also joined this group of criminals to survive. Nandu grows up to become a cold blooded assassin and Shekhar the getaway specialist.

However, one contract job goes haywire for Nandu. During his getaway not only does Shekhar die but Nandu is also on the run from the cops. In his escape from the police, another man called Puran whom he meets on the train dies when the police aim a shot at Nandu.

Nandu heads to Puran’s home and starts living his family a Puran. There he experiences the feeling of living in a real home – something he had never done before. He becomes protective of his grandfather (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), his sisters and also begins to fall in love with Preet (Shriya Saran). Nandu is ready to forget about his past and continue to live here like Puran – but that’s till CBI Inspector Rane (Nana Patekar) arrives on the scene. Convinced that Puran is Nandu; Rane is hot on the heels of Puran. Nandu also realizes that if he wants to live a life in peace, he will have to prove his innocence in the contract job.

And it is in this mission to fin out the truth, Nandu discovers the biggest lie of his life. Will he be able to prove his innocence, that’s what Ek – the Power of One is all about.

So is it worth a trek to your local cinema?

In short the answer is NO.

Bobby Deol is probably a good choice for an assassin. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he can produce all of two and half facial expressions and that’s all he does in this film too. Shriya Saran looks like she just saw a hundred Asha Parekh movies before she took a shot for the film and the rest of the cast don’t even deserve a mention. Nana Patekar is so disgusting in the film that he makes you want to throw up (just a warning – don’t chew on anything every time he comes on screen else you will choke on his atrocious English!)

When Sangeeth Sivan would have begun writing the script of this film, I am sure it was good. No body really sets out to make a bad film. (Or do they?) The concept of the story is not bad. But what happened once the execution began is something that I want an answer to. Does anyone have a number for Mr. Sivan?

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