Director Hansal Mehta was quick to point out that “nobody watched” his 2017 crime-drama Omerta, starring Rajkummar Rao, when a page on X hailed it as “career-defining.” On Wednesday evening, a page on X shared a poster of the film and captioned the post, “Witness Rajkummar Rao in a career-defining performance in Hansal's Omerta, streaming on Prime Video, JioCinema and ZEE5.”
Hansal reposted the tweet and wrote, “So career defining that nobody watched the film. So career defining that neither of us have made a film like this again. Career defining indeed.”
Omerta was a crime-drama based on the life of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, British terrorist of Pakistani origin. He was the man behind plotting the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. The film earned only ₹4.49 crore at the box office.
Hansal’s last directorial was the Kareena Kapoor Khan starrer mystery-thriller The Buckingham Murders (2023). He will soon be coming up with a series Gandhi, based on the early years of MK Gandhi, which will star his frequent collaborator Pratik Gandhi in the lead.
