{"id":51329,"date":"2018-03-31T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=51329"},"modified":"2018-03-31T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:08:31","slug":"took-me-a-while-to-shed-omerta-character-rajkummar-rao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/took-me-a-while-to-shed-omerta-character-rajkummar-rao\/","title":{"rendered":"Took Me A While to Shed \u201cOmerta\u201d Character: Rajkummar Rao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rajkummar Rao in \u201cOmerta.\u201d (IFFLA\/Hansal Mehta)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Rajkummar Rao says it took him some time to come out of the character of British-born Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh he plays in \u201cOmerta.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The 33-year-old actor, who stars as one of the most dreaded terrorists in the upcoming film directed by Hansal Mehta, said it was his first attempt at playing \u201can anti-hero\u201d and it was an \u201cexhausting\u201d experience for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first as an anti-hero and exhausting as an actor. To feel the hate towards another human-being without any remorse can take quite a toll. It took me a while to shed this character,\u201d Rajkummar said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The second poster of the film was revealed, March 29, in which the actor can be seen being taken away in a police van.<\/p>\n<p>The intense drama is based on the life of 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.<\/p>\n<p>Rajkummar reunites with frequent collaborator, Mehta, with whom he has worked in films such as \u201cShahid,\u201d \u201cAligarh\u201d and \u201cCityLights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After getting rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Busan International Film Festival and MAMI, \u201cOmerta\u201d also garnered a positive response at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajkummar Rao in \u201cOmerta.\u201d (IFFLA\/Hansal Mehta) Rajkummar Rao says it took him some time to come out of the character of British-born Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh he plays in \u201cOmerta.\u201d The 33-year-old actor, who stars as one of the most dreaded terrorists in the upcoming film directed by Hansal Mehta, said it was his&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/took-me-a-while-to-shed-omerta-character-rajkummar-rao\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":51323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[33,139,3742,3871,3772,147],"class_list":["post-51329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bollywood","tag-entertainment","tag-hansal-mehta","tag-omerta","tag-rajkummar-rao","tag-siliconeer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}