MUMBAI: National Award-winning director Hansal Mehta’s Omerta, starring Rajkummar Rao as British-born Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh, will stream on ZEE5 from July 25. The film released in theaters in 2018.
Rajkummar Rao said Omar Saeed Sheikh was one of the most challenging characters he has ever played on screen.
“I could never have imagined that playing this part would mentally take me to such dark places. It’s a journey of one of the most deadliest terrorists of our times and Hansal sir pushed me out of my boundaries to explore. It is great that ZEE5 will premiere this film digitally, which the world will be able to see,” Rajkummar said in a statement.
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Hansal Mehta remarked he is looking forward to the digital premiere of Omerta.
“This is a film I’m very proud of. And as the film had predicted then, Omar Sheikh with all his complicity in some of this centuries’ most heinous acts of terror is on his way to acquittal by Pakistan’s apex court. It is an important document of our times, a thriller that is finally set to release on ZEE5 and I am really looking forward for the world to experience Omerta,” Mehta said.
“OTT is a great way for films to be seen. Particularly, some of the films I made, an OTT release would have been ideal for them. Like my film Omerta or Aligarh, I don’t think they were meant for theatrical release. The two would have been great OTT releases,” the director said.
He also said that “OTT will be a way forward” and for him, the platform is “liberating.”
SOURCE – THE INDIAN EXPRESS
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