I still love this movie, though it leaves me bereft any hope, despondent and despaired, with a general feeling that the world is evil, and all that is left to do is to cry. Go to wikipedia’s entry on Omkara for a plot summary.
However, there was so much I had forgotten since the last time! For one thing, I had forgotten how much there is to drool over. Kajol is a lucky girl, to be married to Ajay Devgan! 
Then there’s Kesu (Viveik Oberoi), droolworthy as well…
There are some really sweet situations between Kesu and Billu (Bipasha Basu): how he proposes to her again and again, and she refuses to believe that he really wants to get married. I love the scene between them on the fun fair, that has already been closed for the day. Their love story may not be of real importance for the plot, nevertheless Bhardwaj succeeds in making me interested in them. It gives another dimension to Kesu’s character, shows that there is more to him than the careless youth we see when he’s around Omkara and Langda.
It’s beautiful and painful to see how Langda slowly drips his venom into Omkara. He uses everything he can get, like a skilful chess player. He makes use of coincidences, that he has not planned. He schemes. He reinforces Omkara’s doubts and exaggerates some harmless facts. He lies and twists the truth, and step by step does a puzzle, that shows how Dolly and Kesu have an affair behind Omkara’s back. Langda is really an expert in this game: Finally Omkara asks him if Dolly and Kesu have an affair. Langda does his best to avoide to answer, however when Omkara forces him, he says: “No they don’t – is this the truth that you want to hear? Which truth do you want to hear?”, followed by a blatant lie. He’s always at the right place at the right time, e.g., when he prevents that Dolly tells Indu about the waistband, something that would have solved some problems. By the way, Langda really is an evil and malicious man.
I had forgotten how insecure Dolly was, and how precarious her situation must have been. She says so herself – she has left her family for Omkara. Now she lives with him, waits for her wedding day, and experiences how Omkara’s feelings for her seem to change, how his love mutates into jealousy and possibly hatred. I think I didn’t see her insecurity the first time I saw the movie. Back then, I only saw the naive middle-class girl, who was in love with a goon. I did not see how different her life with her family must have been from her life with Omkara, nor did I see how naive she was. She failed to understand how Omkara’s love for her changed. I still do not know if she really understood what Omkara was aiming at before he killed her, that he was serious when he said that he’d kill her? On the other hand, earlier in the film she said that she had left everything behind, her father, her family, for Omkara. Maybe she felt that she did not have anything left to live for, if he did not love her any more.
Some other points: I still love the soundtrack, and how the two item numbers are embedded in the into the storyline, and needed to drive it forward. I like the background score, as well. I love Shreya Ghoshal’s voice in O Saathi Re. She’s also sung Main Agar Kahoon and Dhoom Taana (OSO), Barso Re (Guru) – one of my favourites. However, my favourite song in Omkara is Naina, sung by Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Oh, he’s done Jah soona soona laage in OSO! :squee: wikipedia is a wonderful thing…
