Omkara could be one of the worst movie of 2006.
The first half is good but the second half is a complete
blunder...yep...i have read Othello and loved it...
but Bharadwaj fails!!! Not to
forget ...Saif ali khan rocked...sparing few terrific dialogues and
scenes ...but as a whole the movie sucked!!!
I wouldn't go as far as saying it's one of the year's worst movies. I agree the film loses some of its fizz in the second half, but overall I had a good time watching it. It wasn't the masterpiece I was hoping it would be. It just never properly got off the ground. Maybe because of the portentious dialogues (mixing UP slang with Shakespeare's declamations didn't create a good rhythm).
I'm a big Saif fan but his role as the baddie was one-dimensional - not his fault, he did what he could. I though Konkona was brilliant, spreading lightness and humor wherever she could. I loved the visual look of the film, the location and the music.
At the end of the day, I would say the film is too long for heavy narrative material and the dense, poetic way of filming. You can't turn this until a 2.5 hour long filmi fest. Unless the director had used all that time to build three dimensional characters with good sides to their flaws.
Overall, I'm still gripped by the atmosphere and some of the acting, but I didn't think it's brilliant.
You have got it wrong dude. I agree it is not as good as I expected it to be, but still it was a well made movie. The direction according to me was fantastic. The acting was top notch. Saif truly rocked as you said. The dialogues were excellent. Vishal Bharadwaj didn't fail, he did everything correct. Only if the story was a little better, it wud have been a masterpiece.
As far as one of the worst movies of 2006 is concerned, all I can say is u dont know nothing abt cinema.
-Dushyant
It's fine you don't like the movie but how could you possibly say this is one of the worst movies in 2006. IMHO, this is one of the best movies I have ever seen (Bollywood and Hollywood)
In 2006, here is a list of absolute stinkers ... I wonder if you saw any of these ?
1. 36 Chinatown
2. Bluff master
3. Humko Deewana Kar Gaye
4. Pyare Mohan
5. Saawan
6. Aksar
7. Jawani Diwani
To put Omkara among this list is just laughable.
^^^totally agree.
btw, this thread was started by someone who thinks this :
http://imdb.com/title/tt0495034/board/thread/48273165
:-|
hahaha.. thanks for the link noizfactory.. he really got it all wrong..
he loves golmaal though.. i'll give tht to him.
but omkara is a very very well made movie and it has finally given the censors some freedom and the general public has finally accepted it.
the language is very harsh but unlike pathetic and ugly references in movies like gangajal and apaharan, someone like vishal bhardwaj has finally put it straight. the language is the way it is.. face it.. he's just tried to make his movie look and feel more real..
some people in india in most of the regions cant go without using a single abuse in each and every sentence. its just normal.. it was there and there's nothing to hide..
the movie is very dark and understands the psyche of the human mind in a very very detailed way.. all the songs were very good and the timing was perfect.. not one song seemed to be out of place. beedi was an exceptionally good song.. the director of photography .. tassaduq hussain.. has given the movie a fresh and appealing look, which keeps u hooked till the end. the dialogues are very powerful and raw and when langda says the opening lines in the movie.. you know wht's coming!!!
i know people had high expectations from vishal bhardwaj.. but u have to give it up for him guys.. its only his 5th movie and he has already given us great movies like makdee and maqbool.. the applause he received for his movie in india is well truly well deserved.. i dont know how well it did at the box office.. but its a very impressive movie..
finally.. i would like to add tht saif ali khan has just kicked the a** of all the khans in the industry.. lago was evil and his role in the movie is just the way its supposed to be.. the character is not outright cruel.. but is cunning.. and he's done a fantastic job!!
i'm sure he's all geared up to snatch all the big awards for his negative performance next year..
i would really recommend this movie and i've already seen it twice. its deep and dark and worth a watch.. if u cant handle the language then dont blame it..
with maqbool and now omkara, bharadwaj's pretty much creating his own style. the camera touches and the music, all had his signature. nad being gulzar's protege defintely counts. can hardly wait for his next venture. (and trying to get my hands on chhatri)
shareHuh? This is probably the BEST movie of 2006!
sharelisten bud...the backbone of any movie is the "story" ...i wud like to rectify it was the story which was *beep* up ...which naturally led to the movie getting *beep* up!!!
I would like to repeat again ...i loved the acting ...but the story wasnt strong enough ... Shakespeare sucks!!!
in your first post you said that you loved Othello, yet in this one you said that shakespeare sucks. make up your mind you prick
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i think this was perhaps the best movie of 2006. it was packed with powerful performances specially saif and konkona. infact the rest were equally good. the music was apt and effective. so was the direction and narration. anyway, one could have disliked it, as u did, but one cant write it off as the worst flick of 2006. thats going a bit too far.
shareYou've got to be kidding. I just saw the film and I am completely BOWLED OVER by what an astonishing work of art this is. Every frame is so lovingly crafted, so masterfully executed, so brilliantly enacted that I cannot help but proclaim that Mr. Bhardwaj has, in essence, created a new style of filmmaking. Perhaps you prefer the wishy-washy no-brainer potboilers a la HAHK and KKHH. If so, then yes, Omkara will not possibly satisfy you. It is intelligent, emotional, complex, and to put it simply, sublime.
The performances are simply unmatched: Saif Ali Khan is ASTOUNDING in what is, in my opinion, a landmark performance. If only all of our good guys could be so bad so well. Vivek Oberoi gets his first lease of life after his brilliant debut in Company and Bipasha Basu surprises with a haughty cameo. Konkona Sen Sharma is the new talent to beat with a no-holds barred performance which rockets her to the top of India's leading talents. Ajay Devgan is almost criminally perfect as Omkara (hint to Shah Rukh Khan: this is *precisely* the way you should have played Devdas, and I mean PRECISELY); and last but certainly not least Kareena Kapoor delivers what can only be termed a transcendent performance as Dolly, supplanting any and all of the work done by any mainsntream Indian actress in the last five years. The Kapoor legacy lives- and how.
Omkara belongs to the same family of films as Satya, Company, and (obviously) Maqbool, but it is also unique in that it presents its own version of beauty: as helpless, foolish, and devastatingly powerful. Let me be the first to say it: Omkara is the best commercial Hindi film since Lagaan, and perhaps of the last decade. BRAVO.
I can't help saying that this really stinks of either hopeless ability of appreciating a movie or being different for the sake of being different. Either ways, it renders the person incapable of judging any movie, leave alone Omkara.
shareThe movie was good...not great. Maqbool was much better. Acting was more intense and the portrayal was more Shakespearean I blv.
Too many songs spoiled a potential masterpiece.
A '7 on 10 movie' in my opinion.
Agree in part.
But this is the best I've seen since Hazaaron Khwahishen. Bharadwaj lost it in the second half and therefore the film as a whole is not great, but anyone can gauge the potential of the director.
Loved the dialogues. Saif was good, Ajay terrible and Deepak Dariyal-guy was f-ing brilliant.
hazaaron... was a masterpiece. but i wouldn't compare the two movies. i feel bharadwaj has successfully managed to present a shakespearean tragedy in the local context. maqbool was rock solid too. however, this movie is one of the best commercial hindi movie of all time.
and psycho bro, i thought you said in your very first post that you've read othello. your views on what was crappy, the story or the acting would have been much clearer had you mentioned that you've read the play and didn't like it. what puzzles me is what made you watch an indian adapatation of othello when you never liked the original source in the first place? anyway, to each his own. ;-)