
She has deceived her father and may thee.’
One of the finest and classic screen adaptation of Bard’s original tragedy directed-acted by Master Orson Welles. It’s his second Shakespearean screen adaptation after ‘Macbeth’. Welles took time of more than three years to finish it due to financing the film independently and meanwhile worked for several other films as an actor including ‘The Third Man’ and completed the film from earned money. Welles not only directed it pitch perfect but also acted like none. His towering personality and immense baritone voice lived the pathos of the moor on screen. Watch him rendering that ‘O now for ever tranquil mind’ soliloquy with intensity and I doubt was any other man able to did the same justice!
Does this immortal classic need any summary/plot description? Okay, for those who haven’t read the literary classic, here’s just nutshell- The moor of Venice, Othello fell in love with young and noble Desdemona and the cunning and treacherous Iago plotted a perfect scheming by making Cassio a scapegoat to spread poison in the mind of the moor. The rest is all Shakespearean hamartia of suspiciousness, jealousy and hate and human flaws coiled up together to make it one of the immortal tragedy of all time.

Need I say ‘must watch’?
Ratings- 8.5/10
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