After much ado and discussion, Vishal Bharadwaj has decided the title of his next Ajay Devgan - Saif Ali Khan starrer movie.

Vishal himself in an interview revealed that his adaptation of Shakespere’s ‘Othello’ would be titled - Omkara.

The film stars Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Konkona Sen Sharma, Vivek Oberoi, Ayesha Takia, Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor and Naseeruddin Shah in lead roles.

The movie - Omkara - is scheduled to start shooting in March and is planned to be completed by the stretch of 2006.

Bipasha Basu has long retured from Brazil where she shot for Dhoom 2 with Hrithik Roshan, Uday Chopra and Aishwarya Rai but the sexy beauty can’t stop raving about the her trip to the place always high on sun, sea and sights.

Bipasha said, “It was great fun! This was the first Hindi film (Dhoom 2) to be shot there and Brazil is a fun place. Uday has stayed back for a holiday. We all had a blast and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.”

The actress also told that since she looked like a local there, she blended in with the Brazilians. She said, “one day, I was sitting in a front of a shop in Rio, and someone, thinking I was a local, started asking me the price of stuff. It’s just that I couldn’t speak the local language, Portuguese.” (more…)

Saif Ali Khan is playing a twisted guy - Cyrus in his first English movie. The actor talks about how it was being Cyrus.

You’ve mustered up the courage to do unconventional films.
I think Omkara and Being Cyrus are as different from each other as they are from conventional cinema. Even Salaam Namaste wasn't conventional, though it was mainstream because it was a Yashraj production.

You have a very unusual release coming up?
I loved 'Being Cyrus'. Honestly speaking, whether it's a Vishal Bharadwaj's or Homi Adajania's film, I feel I've moved to a different level as an actor. I might have been a little unsure at the beginning of the project, but instinctively, now I think I have started getting it right. Being Cyrus is my first English-language film. It's a different kind of cinema. It's a quality film. It should be evaluated in its own space. (more…)