Omerta
*ing: Rajkummar Rao, Happy Ranajit, Rajesh Tailang, Rupinder Nagra, Keval Arora, Timothy Ryan Hickernell, Kallirroi Tziafeta, Harmeet Singh Sawhney Rated: 5/10 Omar Sheikh, the terrorist who was behind 26/11 and the man who cunningly brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war, you would think would be someone who would stoke passions to such an extent that a cut and dry film on him would sound and look misplaced. Omerta , a loose biopic of this Pakistan-based top terrorist who was one of the three men freed in a hijack deal during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s regime, gives an uncomfortably placid account of how an LSE aspirant from an upmarket London household gets into the terror network, trains in PoK and unleashes big-time events in India and Pakistan, thereby giving America a bed of thorns. But why he chooses India as his target when he should have been on a Bosnian chant is one of the things Hansal Mehta fails to explain, alongside an undercooked childhood story an...