Every actor in Ek Villain has gone against his/her conventional image to don a brand new avatar for the film. Sidharth Malhotra (Guru) makes the transition from the quintessential lover boy to an angry young man, Riteish Deshmukh (Rakesh), from an ace comic actor to a disgruntled middle-class commoner and Shraddha Kapoor (Aisha), from a sweet romantic to a layered, emotional pixie girl.