I read the comments on Raja's review and felt Indian audience is yet to mature on understanding cinema, perhaps the reason why Bollywood films stand nowhere in comparision to the works of world cinema (how hard we try to sneak into Cannes with superficial glamor!) Omkara has been a very remarkable step towards good filmmaking. While I agree with Raja's comments on language, histrionics, sets and cinematography.. the one aspect that seriously needed refinement in the movie was the use of music - rather than the music itself. We need to learn from the west what background score means and what is the impact on the screenplay when you interlace it too loud or you play it out of place. The rustic music could have been better interwoven with the on-screen episodes, which were often marred due to the strings and drums. Vishal deserves good words for his use of the Othello concept. I never tried to pull Shakespeare into the movie and perhaps the reason being less of a cynic as far as creating a theatrical blueprint is concerned. It's a directors point of view, an adaptation, which according to me is quite successful keeping Indian psyche, industry business, craftsmanship in perspective.
