Vishal Bharadwaj clarifies that his third film “Omkara”, a crime thriller based on Shakespeare’s “Othello”, is not about an underworld kingpin.


Bharadwaj, whose earlier “Maqbool” was an adaptation of “Macbeth”, also says that for the next two years he will stay away from Shakespeare and work on something original.


” ‘Omkara’ isn’t set in the underworld. It is the political mafia of Uttar Pradesh. That’s a completely different world. The Mumbai underworld is an autonomous entity. But the world shown in my ‘Othello’ has never been shown before,” said Bharadwaj, adding that the definition of crime in Uttar Pradesh is very different from the Mumbai underworld.


“I am from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. So I know the world that my characters in my ‘Othello’ inhabit. Even I used to carry a knife in college in Meerut. Street fights are common over there. Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ had to be set in a violent milieu. Likewise my ‘Omkara’,” Bharadwaj told IANS.


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