Hansal Mehta and Rajkummar Rao's fourth collaboration "Omerta" is intense, violent and brutally realistic with its approach.
It showcases the events occured in an Educated and Previleged Omer Sheikh's life from his entry into terrorism to his current whereabouts. It does a great job in so many places except some; where the lack of much needed depth in research material falters the overall representation for the aforementioned person and the crimes that he committed.
This film is a controversial one, as it was always bound to be. A biopic on a terrorist who has done many heinous crimes around the world; it does take a lot of courage to even begin the pre-production. As an avid film lover; I appreciate the whole crew and the director himself for taking such audacious attempt for the portrayal of a criminal mastermind. And that's not an easy task by any means.
Rajkummar Rao as Omer shines through the most. His conviction and commitment for the role is noticeable and certainly praiseworthy. I'm glad he chose such a huge and risk worthy project so early in his career.
Truly commendable. Same amount of applaud goes to the team behind the Cinematography and Sound. As both were superb in their respective places. Some sequences have become more tenseful and unsettling just because of the clever use of lighting and subtle nuances carried out by the soundtrack so diligently. It's fascinating to say the least.
Even after so many positive outtakes, I still feel this film is incomplete in ways and didn't left a lasting impression. Apart from Rajkummar Rao other Characters Haven't got much else to do, especially the foreign individuals who played different roles were simply not good enough. The Character of Omer Sheikh, it seems unexplored to a certain extent. And some research materials too didn't delve deeper into the subject of modern world socio-political affairs nor any atrocities done by different governments for their own reasons and agendas. In the end it takes a mid approach & sort of plays a Safe game and left the ultimate Burdening question for us to consider and think about.
Now that could be a good thing for some others might find it a tad bit unfair.
For me personally I wanted more clarifications regarding Omer Sheikh's personal life and his incremental change into becoming a pure evil.
The sheer potential the script got, being scraped away by a conservative execution.
I don't really blame the makers for that, as I earlier have applauded their efforts into it but on a serious note I genuinely think this could have been much much better had they been more sincere towards its impactness. Sadly they weren't!
