Trailer: Omerta


OMERTA Looks At What It Means To Be A Fundamentalist.

Director Hansal Mehta, who unveiled the gritty trailer of the film on Wednesday, says his idea behind making an “uncomfortable film” is to make the audience face the truth.
The film, starring Rajkummar Rao, is based on British-Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh. Omerta takes a look at this complex paradox of a man called Omar Saeed Sheikh.
Mehta while launching the trailer confessed that it was a difficult subject to choose and a challenge to make. “However, with an actor like Rajkummar, no challenge seems insurmountable and this was the ideal film to hurtle us out of our comfort zone to make something that is uncomfortable. “But that is the burden of truth – it is uncomfortable and it must be faced.”


According to Mehta, Omerta looks at what it means to be a fundamentalist and for someone to pick up a gun with the intent of killing in return for an afterlife in paradise. The National Award winning actor Rajkummar, who has delivered impactful performances in his past associations with Mehta, plays an anti-hero in the movie for the first time.

Omerta is among the most researched films that I have worked on till date. We actually visited some of the places frequented by Omar in London during his transformation from a LSE graduation student to becoming this deadly terrorist. Omar Saeed’s brutal beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl is also a part of Omerta.


The film is shot in real locations across London and India while recreating Pakistan and Afghanistan. Presented by Swiss Entertainment and Karma Media, and produced by Nahid Khan, the film is slated to release on April 20.


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