Ekam: Son of Soil

Description

Ekam returns to India from Australia because of his fathers (Jagmeet Singh) wishes. His father wants him to stay with him and his second wife (Sheelam) and her son ( Monty), his wish is to see his entire family live happily together. But Ekam realizes that he is not accepted by his step mother and step brother. Corrupt MLA ( Iqbal Singh) is a close family friend and a business partner of the family. Iqbal Singh daughter Navneet falls in love with Ekam. They both come close and decide to get married with their families' consent. All efforts from Jagmeet Singh are unable to unite his family . He is deeply hurt and one day dies of heart attack. After his fathers death Ekam decides to fulfill his fathers wish and moves to his ancestral house in the village, where he has lot of childhood memories.. Once he reaches the village he comes across various problems faced by the villagers and how they are exploited by politicians and others. Ekam fights for their rights and brings a positive change to the entire village This is not accepted by MLA Iqbal Singh who sees Ekam as a threat to his vicious plans He warns his daughter Navneet to say away from Ekam But Ekam a true son of soil cannot be stopped from achieving his goal. Babbu Mann is an Indian music director, a Punjabi folk singer, composer, lyricist and he has also acted in a number of Punjabi movies. Babbu Mann was born in the village of Khant Maanpur in the Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab, India on March 18th 1975 as Tejinder Singh Maan. His first album Main Nahi Manda did not do well. In the year 1999, his album Tu Meri Miss India was released and brought him a lot of success, and was followed by another successful album Saaun Di Jhadi in 2001. In 2003, he got an opportunity to work with singer Sukhvinder Singh for a Punjabi movie Hawayein as a music director and Babbu also got a chance to show his acting talent in this movie which was a great success. His next album was Ohi Chann Ohi Rataan. It was not a good one but his fourth album Pyass was a superhit and was awarded the Best Album of the Year by ETC Channel Punjabi Music Awards 2006. Some of his other hits were Rabb Ne Banayien Jodeian which was the first movie for which he sang, and his next hit album was in Hindi named Mera Gham. These were followed by some more hits like Aao Saare Nachiye which was a New Year special. His biggest success came along with the movie Hashar... A love Story. All the songs of this movie were good but the most famous one was Kabaddi. Mann is the music director for the Hindi movie Vaada Raha...I Promise, starring Kangana Ranaut and Bobby Deol. He has worked with Monty Sharma, Toshi-Sharib, and Turaaz for this project. Review: Excellent Movie - In theater, we were confused at what was going on. The theater was house full and crowd was responsive. At certain dialogues they clapped heartedly, but on the other hand also made fun of the film at times. Sometimes at awkward moments. Like the whole theater laughed at the death of Sarpanch. That was supposed to be a very serious scene, but crowd was laughing at his death.. one viewer even said "Oye eh ethe pahunchya kiwein, adh vichale drakhat de faansi kiwein le layi...". There was laughter in the cinema, when Ekam's father gets a paralysis attack and the same when he dies. The same happened when Bhagwant Maan died. The whole house was jeering during the climax action sequence. It seems that Ekam couldnt bring about the tragedy all these characters were suffering. The scenes which were supposed to make people cry, actually induced such remarks as "Oye eh ta Mar Geya Oye..." "Jeeb kiwein kaddi a sarpanch ne" "Oye pagg ta sambhal la..." "Oye Gypsy udd gayi oye" "Mera Pulser ta chalang ni Marda... "