Omkara- Review

OMKARA
Here is the movie that delivers everything a cinemagoer expects. Starting at breakneck speed, it introduces all it's charachters in a breath. Omakra(Ajay Devgan) , the faithful muscle-man of politician Nasruddin Shah, is flanked by trusty aides Langda Tyagi( Saif Ali Khan) and Keshu Firangi ( Vivek Oberoi). The flurry in the begenning gives way to a relatively slower narrartion, a platform for the actors is created and every charachter delivers. Right from the green eyed monster- tyagi, to beginner muscle-man Keshu. Love is blind, but jealousy in love is maliciuosly blind, and this is what pulls a gifted warlord Omkara, to his doom.
The Indian village has come alive, not only physically, but also in terms of the mentalities of it's inhabitants. There are folk songs and there are item-numbers. The director has doubled up as music director, to produce a delicate interlacing of songs with the setting.
The story unravels to produce expected surprises, with prodigious acting inputs from, Konkana Sen Sharma and Kareena Kapoor.
Vivek Bharadwaj has made Shakespere's Othello his own, and set it beautifully in an Indian backdrop. A must watch for all, yes even you Mr.Shakespere. A word of caution though, explicit language content, avoid taking your younger siblings to the theatre.