Bharat Dabholkar

Eight years after Rakesh Mahadkar reigned terror on Mumbai, another serial killer has taken birth. More brutal and dangerous but he uses the same cover, the Smiley Mask. Ek Villain Returns is the story of two men in one sided love. The paths they choose to fulfill their love stories decide who the Hero is and who is the Villain.

A car racer on top of his career is forced to quit racing after a brutal accident. However, while he is trying to support his family, he gets an opportunity to make a comeback in the racing circuit.

The story is about two friends and cops, Javed Abbas (Jackie Shroff) and Arun Verma (Shahrukh Khan), who are both Special Task Force officers and partners. Javed is a widower who is bringing up his 4 children (Fatima Sana Shaikh is one of the kids) with a lot of love and effort while Arun is his carefree, hotheaded, trigger-happy albeit well-meaning subordinate and brother-like friend. Arun doesn't like Javed's four children, just like he doesn't like any kid, nor do the four children like him and they keep playing pranks on Arun whenever they meet him. Champak (Dilip Joshi) is Arun's friend from college and stays with him in his house. KKV (Krishan Kant Virmani) (Nirmal Pandey) is a local drug lord that the entire police department have always been desperate to bring him to justice. But due to KKV's broad connection in the police department, nobody ever manages to find any solid proof against him. Bipasha (Sahila Chadha), Inspector Sawant (Raj Zutshi) and Inspector Rajendra (Suresh Chatwal) are also part of Javed's team. With the help of an informer, police catch KKV's group red handed while he is dealing drugs. But later someone replaces the drugs detained from KKV with sugar, making KKV released, which makes it very clear that someone in the police department is working for KKV. The Police Commissioner (Akash Khurana) is eager to find out that traitor. Javed figures out that someone switched the drug packets from KKV's raid with sugar packets and knows that this was an inside job. Geeta (Juhi Chawla) is Javed's friend. Once she meets Arun and falls in love with him at the first sight, but Arun shows no special interest in her and always avoids her. While on a subsequent drug raid (Which Arun and Javed lead together. Javed had given his bullet proof jacket to Arun before the raid), Javed is shot dead by an unknown assailant (who knew Javed and attacked him while he was alone). Before the mission, Javed wrote a letter to Arun, asking Arun to take care of his four kids if he cannot survive. As Javed's best friend, in spite of not liking kids, Arun decides to adopt Javed's children, instead of sending them to an orphanage. Arun also engages with Geeta so that he can have her helping him taking care of those children. Arun also develops his feeling for Geeta gradually. Arun's life becomes difficult as his salary is not enough to support so many people. In a visit to KKV's club to warn him, Arun unexpectedly finds that Geeta is the dancer at that club. Arun becomes angry with Geeta, not only because he thinks bar dancer is a filthy job, but also because he thinks Geeta has long been cheating him by pretending to be decent. When he returns home later, he confronts Geeta and questions her for that, but the children all say that Geeta was with them all day, making Arun have to believe that the bar dancer is another person that simply looks like Geeta. Arun has to back off when the kids allege that maybe Arun was the one who shot Javed, but there is no proof of that. Arun is asked to vacate Javed's government flat as that is for serving police officers only. Under the pressure of living, Arun robs KKV. He takes a big amount of money from KKV, which he knew was dirty money, and buys a big house for his family. Arun gets arrested immediately, not for the robbery, but however for illegal drug possession (The same drugs that went missing from police possession while Javed was investigating the case). He is charged with being KKV's spy as police identifies that the drugs found in his house belongs to KKV. Obviously, Arun is trapped by someone, but he does not know who trapped him. In the court. Geeta also testifies against Arun, however, not as his fiance, but as a secret police officer who worked at KKV's bar -- yes, the bar dancer whom Arun saw before -- and the witness of Arun's robbery. Arun is therefore suspended from duty until further trial. Arun now does not believe anyone anymore; he decides to find the killer of Javed and the spy for KKV by his own. He questions a police officer (the guy in charge of the evidence locker room from where the KKV drugs were stolen in the first place) at his home, whom he believes to be corrupted. The officer admits he is a spy for KKV, but follows the order of JD, another police officer. He also says he does not know who killed Javed, but JD does. Arun kills him and heads for JD's house. On his way to JD's house, Arun calls Geeta for help, who was with the Police Commissioner when answering the phone call. With the permission of the Commissioner, Geeta joins Arun to question JD, only to find JD was killed right before they arrive. They believe the Police Commissioner is the spy as he is the only third person that knows they are heading for JD. Arun rushes to the Police Commissioner's house and thrashes him, but the latter denies being a spy for KKV. Geeta goes to CBI Chief's Diwakar (Keith Stevenson) house to report the situation, who is the superior of the Police Commissioner, but she finds KKV is in the Chief's house with him, making her immediately realize the Chief is the real spy as he might have known the plan from the Commissioner. The Chief and KKV try to kill Geeta, but she manages to escape. Geeta visits Arun and the Commissioner and tells them her findings about the Chief. The Commissioner is shocked to know that, and he knows that the Chief is going to leave the country very soon. They arrive at the airport to stop the Chief from leaving. During the gunfight at the airport, KKV kills the Chief when taking him as a hostage and inspector Sawant (Raj Zutshi) kills KKV and gets killed by Arun, who reveals himself as the killer of Javed at the final scene.