Love is the most simple and also the most complicated emotion. Complicated further by people and society. Which is why the simple boy-girl-meet-fall-in-love premise has been able to offer so many storylines to abundant moviemakers. Where there is romance, there will be those clichés, but it’s the way these are twisted, decorated, wrapped and presented to the audience that makes the whole difference. Gautham Menon has been known to effectively portray complex human emotions and reactions and has given us some beautiful love stories in his movies no matter what genre: Minnale/Rehna Hai Tere Dil Main, Kaakha Kaakha, Vaaranam Aayiram. Having portrayed twice earlier, Gautham brings to you again the story of Karthik-Jessie from Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa –aka VV- (Tamil) and Ye Maaya Chesave (Telugu) to the north
audience as Ekk Deewana Tha (EDT).

Sachin (Prateik Babbar), an engineering grad student with a penchant for cinema meets Jessie (Amy Jackson), his beautiful upstairs neighbor. It’s love at first sight for him as he keeps trying to convince her of his love. Jesse, although in love too, isn’t too keen on going against her conservative parents and her dilemma keeps Sachin on the hook. So while our hero sings “Dil hote jo…Mere seene mein do, Doosra dil bhi mein…Tumhe deta todhne ko…”, he actually keeps getting his heart broken time and again as the extremely confused Jessie can’t decide if she wants to be with her love or with her parents. EDT has nothing original to offer in terms of storyline and mashes up all possible clichés…the pehli-nazar-ka-pehla-pyaar, the montages of stalking/pataofying, the ikraar, the caste issue (he is Maharashtrian Brahmin; she is Mallu Christian), bodyguard ready to fight brother, tiffs between the parents of the couple, you get the gist. » Read more: Ekk Deewana Tha Movie Review