Rediff Reviewers, a team composed of our readers, sent in their lists of 2006's best movies.
Earlier, we presented Vidya Pradhan's, Madhusudan Hegde's, Tasneem Karbani's and Shahid Khan's top five.
Here is a list from Preran Kurnool, 32, who lives in Chennai.
Omkara
Vishal Bharadwaj, in his second outing with Shakespeare after Maqbool, takes Othello into the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and proves yet again, that you can plant the bard's epics into any milieu and they will still work.
Omkara (Ajay Devgan) is the story of a half-Brahmin warlord who elopes with his lady love Dolly Mishra (Kareena Kapoor), against the wishes of her father. Omkara's tragedy begins the day he chooses Kesu Firangi (Vivek Oberoi) as his successor over the aspiring Langda Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan).
The wily Tyagi plots to create a rift between the two by leading Omkara to suspect his lover's fidelity and Kesu's loyalty. In the final tragic turn of events, Omkara kills his beloved and then himself, when he realises his mistake.
Saif, as the villainous Tyagi, is one reason why Omkara is a must watch. He discards his designer clothes and English-tinted Hindi to play the rustic character and leaves his critics rooting for him. The only drawbacks of this otherwise brilliant movie are Bipasha -- terribly miscast as Billo -- and excessive foul language.
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