Omkara (film)

Omkara (Hindi: ॐकारा) is a 2006 Indian film adaptation (closely followed) of Shakespeare’s Othello, co-written and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. It starred Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan, and Kareena Kapoor in the lead roles, supported by Vivek Oberoi, Naseeruddin Shah, and Konkona Sen Sharma with a cameo role from Bipasha Basu. The director Vishal Bhardwaj himself composed the entire music for the film, including the background score, with lyrics by Gulzar.

The film was showcased at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival along with a book on the making of Omkara. It was also selected to be screened at the Cairo International Film Festival, where Bhardwaj was awarded for Best Artistic Contribution in Cinema of a Director. The film also won three awards at the Kara Film Festival, an award at the Asian Festival of First Films, three National Film Awards, and seven Filmfare Awards.

It became part of a series of film interpretations of popular literary works by Bhardwaj, made after Maqbool (2003) based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Chatri Chor (English title: The Blue Umbrella) (2007) based on Ruskin Bond's The Blue...... ...
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