Avengers: Infinity War: Shah Rukh Khan's Don, Sidharth Malhotra's Ittefaq - 7 Hindi Movies Where The Baddie Wins Like the Marvel Movie
Avengers Infinity War is not only Hollywood movie, where the baddie walks away with the spoils.
When a movie is about the good or the bad, we want to see good triumph over the bad. Mostly our films stick to this format, as we cheer the protagonists in vanquishing the foes. However, a little movie came out a few days back that changed the formula on the head. That movie is currently reigning at the box office worldwide and is called Avengers Infinity War. If you have not seen this Marvel movie and are planning to do so, don't read ahead. For the post can be spoiler-ish.
Anyway, if you have seen the movie, you know how it ends. After getting all the Infinity Stones, the villain Thanos snaps his fingers killing half the living beings of the universe, including the heroes like Spider-Man, Black Panther, most of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Bucky, Scarlet Witch and others. After having done so, Thanos retires to some desolate planet and smiles in peace watching the sunrise as the scene cuts to the credits. Yes, despite starring so many heroes, it is the villain who finally wins.
Avengers Infinity War is not only Hollywood movie, where the baddie walks away with the spoils. In the West, there are movies like The Dark Knight (at least for the Joker), Se7en, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Great Silence, No Country for Old Men, Skyfall, and others. Back home, even though the examples are few, as we love to see our heroes win, there have been movies where baddies win in the end. Here are seven such films -
Don
The villain: Shah Rukh Khan's Don
Even though it was a remake of the Amitabh Bachchan classic from the '70s, director Farhan Akhtar pulled an amazing twist in the end to change everything we saw before. It was revealed that Don's doppelganger was Don himself, who had killed his lookalike on the night of the switch and had been fooling every one since, including Priyanka Chopra's Roma. With that one scene, the movie lives up to the dialogue, 'Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi, namumkin hai!'
Ittefaq
The villain: Sidharth Malhotra's Vikram Sethi
Like Shah Rukh Khan's Don, the makers of this remake of the Rajesh Khanna movie also had a twist of their own at the end. The investigating cop, played by Akshaye Khanna, realises that Sid's character had pulled the wool over his eyes and is in fact, the murderer of his own wife, as well as Sonakshi's husband. But by then, the murderer had already caught the flight of freedom to London.
Kaun
The villain: Urmila Matondkar's unnamed serial killer.
In this psycho-thriller, we, along with the very unfortunate Manoj Bajpayee's trespasser and Sushant's thief, realise that Urmila is no innocent houseowner. In fact, she was a serial killer who had killed the real house-owner and then went on to kill both the other men who stumble upon the truth, before she smiles creepily at the camera.
Jaane Bi Do Yaaron
The villain: Everyone corrupt
Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Baswani's naive photographers try to expose Taneja's (Pankaj Kapur) hand in the murder of the municipal commissioner (Satish Shah). In the process, they also wanted to expose the corruption in the system. After a series of some hilarious chase sequences with a dead body, corruptions wins the day, and the heroes get sent to jail! Bummer!
Samay - When Time Strikes
The villain: Jackie Shroff's serial-killer
If you have seen the original Brad Pitt-Morgan Freeman-starrer, Se7en, you should have known how this Sushmita Sen movie would have ended. As a cop out to catch a cunning serial killer, she finally confronts him in the climax only to realise that he has killed her daughter. Even though she shoots him dead later, she just does what he really wanted - make a killer out of her.
Omkara
The villain: Saif Ali Khan's Langda Tyagi
Even though he gets killed by his wife (Konkona Sen Sharma), Tyagi achieved his goal of destroying Omkara (Ajay Devgn) by making him kill his wife and later commit suicide, in the name of an unwanted suspicion.
Gangs Of Wasseypur (both parts)
The villain: Part I - Tigmanshu Dhulia's Ramadhir Singh; Part II - Zeishan Quadri's Definite Khan
In the first movie, Manoj Bajpayee's Sardar Singh could not escape his death after his mistress betrays him to the villains and he gets killed in a secret ambush. In the sequel, his son, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, manages to take revenge on his family's killers successfully. However, he gets shot down by his half-brother (the mistress' son), who turns out to be the real a-hole here.
Do you know of any other Hindi movie where the villain wins in the end? Share your knowledge with us below.
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