Om Shanti Om (2007)

In the 1970s, Om, an aspiring actor, is murdered, but is immediately reincarnated into the present day. He attempts to discover the mystery of his demise and find Shanti, the love of his previous life.

Director:

Farah Khan

Writers:

Farah Khan (story), Mushtaq Sheikh (screenplay)

Stars:

Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal

33 wins & 21 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Shah Rukh Khan	...	Om Prakash Makhija / Om Kapoor
Arjun Rampal	...	Mukesh 'Mike' Mehra
Kiron Kher	...	Bela Makhija (as Kirron Kher)
Shreyas Talpade	...	Pappu Master
Deepika Padukone	...	Shantipriya / Sandy
Bindu	...	Kamini
Javed Sheikh	...	Rajesh Kapoor (as Jawed Sheikh)
Satish Shah	...	Partho Roy - Film director
Nitish Pandey	...	Anwar
Yuvika Chaudhry	...	Dolly
Shawar Ali	...	Himself (as Shawar Ali Khan)
Asawari Joshi	...	Mrs. Rajesh Kapoor (as Asavari Joshi)
Nassar Abdulla	...	Nasser - Rajesh's assistant
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Masood Akhtar	...	Old Dressman
Sev Anand	...	Dev Anand

Storyline

Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artist in the 1970's hindi film industry, who is in love with actress Shantipriya. Om rescues Shanti from a fire scene where the fire has escaped control, and they become friends. His hopes seems to be coming true, but shortly thereafter he finds out that she is married to a film producer, Mukesh Mehra, and is expecting his child. He then watches in horror as Mukesh, after luring her in an abandoned studio, sets it on fire to prevent a financial loss and protect his career. Om attempts to rescue her in vain, and he eventually is killed. 30 years later, Om has reincarnated as the only son of a Bollywood actor, Rajesh Kapoor, and is himself an actor. His memories start to return when he meets with his widowed mother, Bela, from his previous birth. He also meets with Mukesh and together they decide to make a movie 'Om Shanti Om'. Om then hires a look-alike of Shantipriya, and hopes to force a confession out of Mukesh - but things go awry and Om finds his ...

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Plot Keywords:

actor | fire | friend | love | film producer | 

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Taglines:

He was a junior artiste. She was a star. For some dreams, one lifetime is not enough.

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance | Thriller

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [Japan]

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi Urdu

Release Date:

9 November 2007 (India)

Also Known As:

Aionia agapi

Filming Locations:

Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,500,000, 11 November 2007

Gross USA:

$3,597,372

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$39,997,025

Company Credits

Production Co:

Films & Casting Temple Pvt. Ltd. Sydney, Red Chillies Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

162 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Deepika Padukone's voice in this film was provided by popular dubbing artist Mona Ghosh Shetty. Although she speaks once in her original voice when Deepika meets Shahrukh for spending the night right before the song "Main Agar Kahoon".

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Goofs

Why does everybody leave Mukesh alone after the accident?

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Quotes

Om Kapoor: I feel like the king of the world.

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Crazy Credits

Farah Khan's Trademark: The whole cast and crew appears as part of credits during the end.

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Connections

References Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! (1994)

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Soundtracks

Dastaan-E-Om Shanti Om
Composed by Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)

User Reviews

A lot entertainer and senseless movie

No doubt, that this movie is going to break the box office record. I has made for doing that only. Farah Khan in her second movie kept her promise of giving lot of entertainment, at the same time giving the most senseless and stupid movie. Good or bad I don't know. I will give it to individual to decide.

That is the reason why the movie is having extreme comments. On one side, its is the best for SRK fans (SRK is there in almost every frame of the movie, so much that finally someone may want to throw out). It is also the best for the mass who like to watch comedy, drama, romance, music in one shot. This movie has it all. "Maa Ka Pyar", "Main Maa Bananewali Hoon", "Mera Beta Wapas Aayega", "Muze Zinda Gaad Diya" all and many more emotions are packed in this 3 hr movie. But even after that you feel movie is still lengthy specially in second half.

As a really good entertainer the movie gives very good music, dance, dialogs. Acting wise all are good except Deepika, specially in second half. No doubt, why she has so less dialogs.

At the other side the movie is totally unrealistic. Unrealistic characters, unrealistic events, too stupid dialogs. All these points suddenly become clear when you watch 'chak de India' and this movie having less interval in between. I always believe that a movie should be entertaining first, should be able to bind the people to the chair. This movie does that. But then at the times, you also think why the hell have I wasted so much precious time of my life watching this movie.

You can easily see from what I have written that how much confused I am. I am still not able to decide whether the movie is good or bad. Hence I gave an intermediate rating. Let each individual decide it. Meanwhile I will try to forget that I wasted three hours of life, while watching Dard-e-disco on youtube again and again.