LSC Event Descriptions

December 1 & 3, 2006

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Rated unrated
146 minutes

LSC Classics Presents:
Omkara (2006)
December 1, 2006 at 6:30 and 10:00 pm in 26-100
December 3, 2006 at 6:30 pm in 26-100

Omkara is based on William Shakespeare's 17th century classic, "Othello." Regarded as one of the Bard's finest plays about the human condition, it is being brought to life in an Indian milieu for the first time in a mainstream Hindi film, by noted writer director Vishal Bhardwaj. This is his successive Shakespeare effort after the highly celebrated Maqbool which brought the brooding Macbeth to Indian screens a couple of years back.

Set against the milieu of political warfare in the interiors of Uttar Pradesh, Omkara follows one man's descent into sexual jealousy and the final wreckage of his love at the altar of blind obsession. Love is blind but jealousy is even blinder and can tear apart even the strongest and bravest of warriors. Omkara or Omi is a gifted chieftain who heads a gang of outlaws, which include the crafty Langda Tyagi and the dynamic Kesu 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 fiance Dolly, in an illicit affair with Omi's "favorite lieutenant," Kesu. [omkarathefilm.com]

"'Omkara' is no ordinary work of art. It's a full-blown treatise on the politics of the human heart."
      -- Anonymous, webindia123. Read this review.

In Hindi with English subtitles.


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