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Ranked #27 of 100
Omkara
ओंकारा · 2006
Othello relocated to the badlands of western Uttar Pradesh, where a handkerchief becomes a waistband and jealousy becomes caste.
- Director
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- Year
- 2006
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Vivek Oberoi
Why it's at number 27
Saif's Langda Tyagi is the best villain of the 2000s. Bhardwaj's Shakespeare is not adaptation, it's transplant.
Othello relocated to the badlands of western Uttar Pradesh, where a handkerchief becomes a waistband and jealousy becomes caste.
Omkara sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj — also responsible for Maqbool, Haider, Kaminey.
- Released in 2006, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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