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Omkara
Cast Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor,Bipasha
Basu, Naseruddin Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma,
Director Vishal Bharadwaj
Genre Drama
Year 2006
The film is Vishal Bharadwaj's interpretation of the bard's classic, Othello. A
play that has been made four times in Hollywood but is being brought to life for
the first time in a mainstream Hindi film in a commercial format. Like Hollywood
legendary filmmaker, Orson Wells, Vishal Bharadwaj is fascinated with
Shakespearan drama - one of Vishal's finest works remains his interpretation of
Shakespeare's Macbeth - Maqbool. Omkara in spirit stays true to the central
theme of Othello and ends up humanizing Shakespeare's characters with the
necessary folklore and ethnic charm that is required for a contemporary story
setting.
Set against the Indian milieu of political warfare in the interiors of Uttar
Pradesh, the film follows one man's descent into sexual jealousy because of his
passionate love for his woman and the final destruction of that love at the
altar of blind obsession. Love is blind but the flip side of love is jealousy
and that can tear apart the strongest and bravest of warriors - in this case
Omkara.
Omkara or Omi (Ajay Devgan) is a gifted chieftain who heads a gang of outlaws,
which include the crafty Langda Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan) and the dynamic Kesu (Vivek
Oberoi) amongst his chief cohorts. The story begins when Omi appoints Kesu and
not Langda as his chief lieutenant. Langda's pride is slighted and raging with
envy he hatches a plot to falsely implicate Omi's beautiful lover Dolly (Kareena
Kapoor), in a love affair with Omi's “favorite lieutenant”, Kesu. With the
unwitting aid of Indu (Konkana Sen Sharma), Langda's wife, and the willing help
of Raju, a fellow grouch, Langda's plan takes shape and results in horrific
tragedy. Using petty insinuations and lies, Langda keeps poisoning Omi's mind
till one day it snaps and Omi goes about tearing up his own safe and secure
world. By the time he realizes what he has done and the backlash of his actions
it is too late
   
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