Movie review: 'Omerta' falls short of getting into a terrorist's mind

Omerta stumbles in its quest to attain any kind of balance

For the longest time, Osama bin Laden was repelled by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian thug-turned-terrorist whose feral, sectarian approach to jihad was one of the main reasons for the formation of the Islamic State. Al-Zarqawi was an uncouth ruffian altogether too unpleasant for the al-Qaeda chief’s liking, who prided himself on being a member of the educated elite. According to some accounts, this antipathy was evident in their very first meeting.

Chances are that bin Laden would have instantly warmed to Omar Saeed Sheikh, the protagonist of Hansal Mehta’s latest work, Omertà. Sheikh, after all, is more bin Laden’s type: