Omerta

Omerta is the fourth film of the duo - director Hansal Mehta and actor Rajkummar Rao after the National Award winning film Shahid, CityLights and the recent Aligarh. Omerta is a biographical crime drama, in which Rajkummar portrays the role of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British terrorist of Pakistani descent. The movie throws light on the 1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India and his arrest when he plots the murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

The movie premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and received a thundering applause at the Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival. Through the movie, Hansal Mehta wants to expose state-sponsored terrorism. Rajkummar revealed that he was disturbed while shooting for Omerta. The flick has been produced under the banners of Swiss Entertainment and Karma Features.