Ek Love Ya

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Ek Love Ya
Ek Love Ya.jpg
Directed by Prem
Written byPrem
Produced by Rakshita
StarringAbhishek Rao
Reeshma Nanaiah
Rachita Ram
CinematographyMahendra Simha
Edited bySrinivas P. Babu
Music by Arjun Janya
Production
company
Rakshita Film Factory
Release date
  • 24 February 2022 (2022-02-24)
Running time
152 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Ek Love Ya [1] is a 2022 Indian Kannada-language romantic action film written and directed by Prem [2] and produced by Rakshita [3] under, Rakshita Film Factory. [4] [5] The film features Rakshita's brother Raanna as the lead, Reeshma in their debut. [6] It also features Rachita Ram. Arjun Janya was hired to compose the music, while the cinematography and editing was handled by Mahendra Simha and Srinivas P Babu, respectively. [7]

Contents

Plot

Amar is a young man, who wants to fulfils his father Shankar's dream of becoming a lawyer. Years later, Amar becomes an alcoholic lawyer working for famous criminal lawyer named CH Vishwanath and meets Swati, a junior lawyer and Vishwanath's daughter.

A flashback reveals that Amar had loved his childhood girlfriend Anitha, but she leaves him without any reason, thus Amar wants to kill Anitha. However, It is revealed that Anitha actually loved Amar, but sacrificed her love due to Shankar's request as Shankar doesn't want Amar's career-ambition to be spoiled due to Amar's love for Anitha. When Anitha is mysteriously thrown from a under-construction building and is in coma. The officials pinpoint on Amar, who is arrested by the police and is awaiting punishment from the court. Shankar reveals about Anitha's sacrifice which leaves Amar heartbroken and realize his mistake about misjudging Anitha.

The next day at the court, Amar escapes from the cops and seeks his friends and Swathi's help to sneak Anitha out of the hospital. They embark on an investigation and check the CCTV footage with Swati's help where they find Amar's friend Daisy, who is a sex worker and enquires her only to learn that the culprit was at the hotel, They check the Hotel manager who arrives at the resident named Ramesh's house, who booked the hotel's room but finds Ramesh, along with Daisy dead. They also enquire Anitha and Amar's common friend Sheela where they learn that Anitha wanted to meet Amar for reconciliation, but was too late as the culprit had sent her to coma by pushing her from construction site.

They enquire a wedding videographer who was at the hotel and finds that Anitha was waiting for her. Sheela calls Amar to reveal that the culprit has arrived. Amar arrives at Sheela's house and produces the culprit to the court where the culprit reveals himself as Lakshman and accepts his misdeeds where Amar is exonerated from the charges and is proven innocent. While leaving for the prison, Lakshman is shot dead by Anitha's father. Amar calls Vishwanath to have a chit-chat where Amar reveals that the culprit was actually a scapegoat and reveals that Vishwanath's son Arjun is the main culprit. Vishwanath had learnt about Arjun's misdeeds and is determined to protect him and blamed Amar for the murder and ask the culprit to finish off the eyewitnesses, who knows about his son including Anitha.

When Vishwanath ask about Arjun, Amar tells him that he killed Arjun and thrown his body in a dumping yard, thus avenging Anitha's injustice. Swathi, learning of Vishwanath and Arjun's misdeeds is disgusted and begins to loathe them. The film ends with Amar living with his friends in their hill house and is seen talking to Anitha (though she is mentally unstable).

Cast

Release

Although initially anticipating to release in early to mid 2020, Prem has delayed the release due to health issues of Janya and the COVID-19 pandemic in India. [9] It was rescheduled for 21 January 2022, but was postponed again to 24 February 2022. [10] [11]

Soundtrack

Ek Love Ya
Soundtrack album by
Arjun Janya
Released24 February 2022 (2022-02-24)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
LanguageKannada
Label A2 Music
External audio
Nuvola apps arts.svg Official Audio Jukebox (Kannada) on YouTube

The soundtrack is composed by Arjun Janya, and is being released in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam.

Kannada tracklist
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Yaare Yaare" Prem Armaan Malik 3:22
2."Helu Yaake"Prem Prem 3:12
3."Yennegu Hennigu"Prem Mangli, Kailash Kher 3:37
4."Ondu Oorali"Sharanakumar Gajendragada Shankar Mahadevan 3:46
5."Meet Madana Illa Date Madana"Vijay Eshwar Aishwarya Rangarajan 3:41
6."Edebaditha Joragide"Manjunath BS Prem, Anuradha Bhat 4:18
7."Matthe Nodabeda"Vijay Eshwar Sonu Nigam, Saindhavi 4:22
Telugu tracklist
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Yaare Yaare" Prem, Rakendu Mouli Sanjith Hegde 3:22
2."Kaalaanni Marachi"Prem, Rakendu MouliAnudeep Dev3:13
3."Mandaina Maguvaina"  Mangli, Saketh Komanduri3:37
Tamil tracklist
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Yaaro Yaaro" Prem, Rathan Chandrashekar Sanjith Hegde 3:22
2."Thappennadi Thappu"Prem, Rathan Chandrashekar Nakul Abhyankar 3:13
3."Ponnukkum Thannikkum" Saicharan Bhaskaruni, Sahiti Chaganti3:40
Malayalam tracklist
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Aroo Aroo" Prem, Rathan Chandrashekar Sanjith Hegde 3:22
2."Thettenthadi Thettu"Prem, Rathan Chandrashekar Yazin Nizar 3:13
3."Penninum Kallinum" Saicharan Bhaskaruni, Sahiti Chaganti3:37

Reception

Sunayana Suresh of The Times of India rated the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "The film is definitely worth a watch for those who love commercial cinema. It could have been edgier had it been shorter and more tightly woven. This would have ensured the intensity would have been more effective". [12]

A. Sharadha of The New Indian Expressrated the film 3.5 out of 5 and termed it as "A deeply romantic drama with a twist of hate" [13] OTTPlay wrote "Ek Love Ya review: A start-to-finish showcase for debutant Raanna, who shows promise, albeit in run-of-the-mill film" and gave a rating of 3 out of 5. [14]

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