Acclaimed Bollywood filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj has been named the best director at the 30th Cairo Film Festival for Omkara.

The film, based on Shakespeare's Othello, won critical acclaim at the fest, sources close to the director said on Tuesday.

Bhardwaj, meanwhile, was in Marrakesh showing Omkara at a film fest there.

Omkara, his second Shakespearean adoption after Maqbool that is based on Macbeth, is to be screened at six more international festivals.