Kareena Kapoor plays the fair Desdemona. A part that ought to present few problems for an actress like her.
She is meant to be the maiden Othello elopes with at the opening. The couple leave Venice with an army for Cyprus, where war is on.
On finding Desdemona's handkerchief with his lieutenant Cassio, Othello is consumed with rage and kills her.
Interestingly, Shakespeare's plot was borrowed from a story in the Italian writer Giraldi Cinthio's Hecatommithi, a collection of 100 tales. The only character in that particular tale with a name was Disdemona, which means 'unfortunate' in Greek.