This is a companion piece to our earlier film Shahid, which also raised questions, which was the story of a young man, a righteous man, who went on the same path, but made a choice later to follow the righteous path. Why should I spoonfeed you, the viewer, with the questions and the answers? A film like this needs to raise important questions. And IвЂ™m not going to give you easy answers. I mean, am I going to justify his path? No, IвЂ™m not. Hansal: No, misguided youth or angst or racially discriminated, marginalized young man. You donвЂ™t want to let him go with the вЂmisguided youthвЂ™ tag. Why do you become lazy when watching our films? When the west watches its own films they celebrate the brevity, the economy of expression and the open-endedness of the narrative and then why am I, as an Indian filmmaker, expected to be spoonfeeding? Is that the narrative that Indian cinema is spoonfeeding you? No, we also make films that challenge your intellect, challenge your ability to raise those questions. We are talking about it, you are seeing it, but at a level at which you are not justifying his indoctrination. We are dwelling upon his background, Bosnia and the events that lead up to his student activism, events that lead up to his eventual absorption into the system. He is an educated young man coming from a background of privilege and becoming a monster вЂ“ what makes him that?ДЄs to вЂwhat makes him thatвЂ™ вЂ“ we get a sense from global reviews that while he (Rajkummar) portrays the role extremely convincingly, why is he in that position needs to be explained better. It is a symbol of how globally terror is brought about not by people who we arrest, not the economically oppressed individual. Every time there is a new terror attack, this story keeps coming back to me, itвЂ™s an example. ItвЂ™s an engaging, fast-paced thriller through which you are discovering, one, the complicity of the state, two, a character like Omar Sheikh вЂ“ a London School of Economics dropout, a British citizen of Pakistani descent вЂ“ and his getting absorbed into the system of global terror. Hansal: For me, finally, itвЂ™s a thriller. Through Omar Sheikh we are looking at the state of Pakistan being complicit through its intelligence agencies.ДЇrom A Mighty Heart to Zero Dark Thirty to TrumpвЂ™s tweets, is there any ambiguity left about the Pakistani stateвЂ™s role? What are you going to tell your viewers that they donвЂ™t already know? The complicity of the state in sponsoring terrorism, that interests me a lot, whichever it may be. In 2018, 15 years later, he is still in prison and on his way out. After Kandahar, we literally gifted this man to the Pakistani establishment and the establishment, even after Daniel PearlвЂ™s killing, has protected him, not extradited him, not carried out the death sentence, that was aborted within six months of him being arrested, just as a token. Hansal: I also want to demonise the rogue state that exists within every state, which empowers, patronises, encourages men like Omar Sheikh. Hansal, you have been very specific in your take that вЂI donвЂ™t want to justify the man ( Omar Sheikh), I want to demonise him.вЂ™ Is that a good enough reason to make a film вЂ“ demonising an individual? And they say that we should be able to tell both kinds of stories. Both Mehta and Rao call 'OmertГ ' a вЂњcompanion pieceвЂќ to their 2012 outing ' Shahid' вЂ“ both are stories of young men who went on the same path but made opposing choices later, for which one got killed and the other enjoys state patronage till date. But just because heвЂ™s вЂњleft of centreвЂќ, doesnвЂ™t mean вЂњyou close your eyes to reality that exists,вЂќ he says. And yes, the often-outspoken critic of the establishment is aware his film might end up as every right-wingerвЂ™s dream. Through his upcoming 'OmertГ ', which stars Rajkummar Rao as the British-Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh, Hansal Mehta wants to вЂњdemonise the rogue state that exists within every stateвЂќ вЂ“ in this case, Pakistan.

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