Ek Ajnabee (Hindi: एक अजनबी, Urdu: ایک اجنبی, translation: "A Stranger") is Bollywood remake of Tony Scott's 2004 film Man on Fire. The film is directed by Apoorva Lakhia with Amitabh Bachchan playing Denzel Washington's role. Co-starring are Arjun Rampal and Perizaad Zorabian.

Summary

Suryaveer Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a bitter man and ex-Army officer, hired by his friend Shekhar (Arjun Rampal) to protect a little girl, Anamika (Richa Vaidya). However, Anamika gets kidnapped and her father is not able to pay the sum in order to release his daughter. So Suryaveer uses all his skills to save the life of the child, only to find out about the conspiracy that is behind the little girl's kidnapping. Surya learns that Chang, Shekhar's lawyer, is behind some of this. The real mastermind behind this is Chang's brother. Surya holds Chang hostage, while Chang's brother holds Anamika hostage. When they come to exchange the people, Chang's brother reveals a great secret to Surya. Surya learns that Shekhar was all behind this. Surya kills Chang's brother's men. A great fight between Shekhar and Surya starts. Shekhar is killed, and Surya spends the rest of his life with Anamika and her mother. In the end, Anamika gets a new bodyguard.

Cast

• Amitabh Bachchan ... Suryaveer Singh
• Arjun Rampal ... Shekhar
• Perizaad Zorabian ... Nikasha
• Rucha Vaidya ... Anamika
• Vikram Chatwal ... Ravi
• Daya Shankar Pandey ... Kripa Shankar
• Akhilendra Mishra ... Harry
• Denzil Smith ... Lee Kap
• Raj Zutshi ... Wong
• Kelly Dorje ... Kelly

Trivia

• John Abraham and Diya Mirza opted out of the film, and were replaced by Arjun Rampal and Perizaad Zorabian respectively.
• Abhishek Bachchan, Lara Dutta and Sanjay Dutt have guest appearances.
• Pooja Bedi had a small cameo, but it was deleted.
• It's actress Rucha Vaidyas second remake, where she plays the part of Hollywood child actress Dakota Fanning, the first being Main Aisa Hi Hoon, which is a remake of I Am Sam.
• The scenes describing the deaths of Amitabh Bachchan's soldiers in the opening few minutes are taken directly from the American HBO Mini-series Band of Brothers.
• The tune for the song ‘Barf Khushi Hai‘ has been copied from Una Palabra by Carlos Varela. The song ‘Una Palabra‘ was used in Man on Fire.

External links

• Official Website for Ek Ajnabee