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Omkara: Post-Colonial Recreation of Shakespeare’s Othello

Author(s) Ms. Shreenita Seal
Country India
Abstract Adaptability of William Shakespeare and his works across various cultures reveals the interplay of world literature with local traditions. Vishal Bhardwaj created an “Indian adaptation” of Shakespeare’s Othello on screen as “Omkara”, where the background of Venetian court has been relocated to rural Uttar Pradesh. Bhardwaj recontextualized the canonical work of Shakespeare in a no-western setting. This paper views through the postcolonial lens on how the Classic Western tragedy has been transformed to the violent, caste-ridden hinterlands set in North India. Omkara breaks down the Eurocentric framework of Shakespeare while sustaining the central themes of betrayal, jealousy of the great tragedy through localized experience. Omkara deconstructs the English literary traditions set by the colonial legacy while validating non-western narratives in global story telling. To reflect India’s own hierarchies of marginalization, Bhardwaj has replaced the racial tension of Othello with Omkara’s caste-based exclusion, representing postcolonial aesthetics. The shift from race to caste plays an important role to display discrimination and belonging in India. Bhardwaj has used an unsanitized Indian regional dialect instead of the great poetic verses of Shakespeare on the screen which resulted in distancing Omkara from the sophistication and sanctity often attributed to Shakespearean works. Omkara rejects any elitist attributes and proves that Shakespearean works are not meant to be merely transplanted but rather recreated. This paper examines how Bhardwaj’s Omkara is a decolonization of the great tragedy, further proving that Shakespeare’s themes require fundamental changes to resonate in the minds of the reader or viewer depending on their cultural background.
Keywords Shakespearean Adaptation, Decolonizing literature, Cultural hybridity, Bollywood Adaptation.
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-07-21
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.83330
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