POTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN OMKARA

Women, a symbol of sacrifice considered as inferior gender in nature. In our Indian society, the general perception is that women should be confined to the four walls of house and because the very word motherhood is associated with her, she is not expected to raise her voice at any cost. However, the Movie ‘Omkara’ adaptation of the famous play ‘Othello’ came as a breakthrough in the Indian Cinema thereby giving an opportunity to the audience to view women from an entirely different perspective. The director Vishal Bharadwaj presented the very concept of womanhood in an Indian context cautiously yet brilliantly.
The three women protagonists ‘Konkana Sen’, Bipasha Basu’ and the main herioine ‘Kareena Kapoor’ were portrayed in a causal yet unsual way. Although the status of an Indian women in society is overtly shown in the movie by not giving them enough dialogues and many a times using silence as their only language. However, nowhere does this lets the audience feel the incorrect notion that women are a weaker or inferior to men. Throughout the movie, they are shown as mentally stronger and wise but not rational fools like men. Bharadwaj deals with the issue of womanhood with sensitivity, which he is able to communicate to the masses.
For instance, the character of ‘Dolly’ played by (Kareena) is amusingly presented. She is polite, meek and subversive, but at the same time, her character gains more strength as we learn that among Omkara (Ajay Devgan) and Dolly it is the women ultimately who emerges as a stronger sex, not sacrificing her life but her love for her life which is Omkara. Whereas on the contrary Omkara, the man who is tagged as physically more stronger falls weak under his own foolishness that leads to destruction of everything.
Similarly the other female characters played by Konkana as ‘Indu’ and Bipasha as Billo chaman Bahar are portrayed. There characters are very feminine in nature just as a woman is expected to behave under the rule of men but still there voices are clear and thoughts come aloud. Bharadwaj does not allow them to leave the stage without the final judgment, which is ironically stated by women that is unbiased and is the truth.

In the end, I would like to say that the movie begins with the supremacy and upper voice of the male characters but the female characters are the one who give the final verdict. Which eventually leaves no choice for their counterparts i.e.; men to surrender and pay for their sins.