Elsewhere, Langda attempts to have Kesu assassinated, but the bullet merely grazes his arm. Langda insists that they are, making a number of additional false claims to support his story.Ĭonvinced of the affair, Omkara smothers Dolly to death on their wedding night. Omkara arrives at the ambush and spots Billo wearing the missing jewelry he murders Kichlu and his gang in a rage, and forces Langda to unambiguously tell him whether Kesu and Dolly are having an affair. Langda additionally has Indu, his wife and Omkara's sister, steal an expensive piece of jewelry that Omkara gifted to Dolly, and encourages Kesu to gift it to his girlfriend Billo.īillo is later used to lure Kichlu, a rival gang enforcer, out of hiding, so Omkara's gang can assassinate him. Langda has Kesu convince Dolly to mollify Omkara, but at the same time uses Kesu's visits to Dolly as evidence to suggest to Omkara that the two of them are having an affair. He first causes a violent brawl between Kesu and Rajju by taking advantage of Kesu's low threshold for alcohol, which damages Omkara's faith in Kesu. Langda, disappointed with Omkara's poor judgment and jealous of Kesu, his younger, less-experienced superior, decides to take revenge. Omkara appoints Kesu over Langda as his successor once he enters politics himself, as he feels Kesu, who hails from the upper classes and is college-educated, stands a better chance of winning over the younger, educated voting crowd than Langda, who is rustic and dropped out of school. Bhaisaab is elected for parliament and Omkara is promoted to the candidate for the upcoming state elections. Omkara eliminates a powerful electoral rival by exploiting an MMS sex scandal. Her father remains disgusted that she is in love with a man from a lower caste and leaves the village in shame. To sort out the misunderstanding, Bhaisaab arranges for Dolly to appear before her father she clarifies that she eloped with Omkara and was not abducted. Rajju fails and the wedding never takes place.ĭolly's father, advocate Raghunath Mishra, is enraged with Omkara and at one point threatens to kill him.
Langda gatecrashes a baraat and challenges Rajju, the groom, to try and stop Omkara from abducting the bride, Dolly Mishra. Ishwar "Langda" Tyagi and Keshav "Kesu Firangi" Upadhyay are his closest lieutenants. Omkara "Omi" Shukla is an enforcer for a gang that commits political crimes for the local politician Tiwari Bhaisaab. The film also won 3 awards at the Kara Film Festival, an award at the Asian Festival of First Films, 3 National Film Awards, and 9 Filmfare Awards. It was also selected to be screened at the Cairo International Film Festival, where Bhardwaj was awarded for Best Artistic Contribution in Cinema of a Director. The film was showcased in the Marché du Film section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival along with a book on the making of Omkara. Omkara is the second film in Bhardwaj's trilogy of Shakespeare adaptations, which began with 2003's Maqbool and was completed with 2014's Haider. The film is set in Meerut, a city in Western Uttar Pradesh. The director Vishal Bhardwaj himself composed the entire music for the film, including the background score, with lyrics by Gulzar. It starred an ensemble cast of Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Vivek Oberoi and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles. Omkara is a 2006 Indian crime drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's Othello, co-written and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.