Rajkummar Rao, the man who was in fine form last year, will arrive with his first release of 2018 in Omerta. Collaborating with his favourite director Hansal Mehta, Omerta has been a project that is touted to showcase yet another brilliant faucet of Rao. If you remember, some of Rajkummar's best movies, be it Shahid, Aligarh or CityLights, have been directed by Mehta. Rajkummar Rao even won his first National Award for his performance in Shahid.

Talking more about Omerta, the movie is scheduled to release on Spril 20. But before that we get to see the trailer that is arriving in two days, that its lead star had promised. Sharing a shirtless picture of his from the movie on Twitter, Rajkummar Rao captioned it, "#Omerta the story of an Antagonist. Trailer will be out in 2 days. Easily the toughest character I’ve played till date."

Also check out the new poster from the movie, shared by the director,

Omerta is an Italian slang used by the mafia which means 'a code of silence about criminal activity'. As per PTI, Omerta is an intense drama film, based on the life of British- born terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was freed in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999 and was later accused of killing journalist Daniel Pearl. Interestingly this character had earlier appeared in Shahid as well, where he was played by Mere Dad Ki Maruti fame Prabal Panjabi.

Omerta has been making rounds at various film festivals where it have been getting really good critical acclaim. Here's what Hollywood Reporter has to say about the movie, "Mehta’s regular star Rajkummar Rao plays the cool-headed, multilingual terrorist as a sinister boy-next-door. Bristling with chillingly amorality, Rao is unrecognizable as the same actor who portrayed the high-principled vote collector in Newton, India’s foreign-language film Oscar submission this year. The intro scenes fly by, briefly suggesting his privileged, preppy life in England beside a concerned but ineffectual father. He claims to have been radicalized on a trip to Bosnia during the war (not shown), when he was exposed to atrocities against his Muslim brothers."

Can't wait to watch Omerta trailer!

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