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Om Shanti Om
File:Omshantiom.jpgMovie poster for Om Shanti Om
Directed by	Farah Khan
Written by	Topper Alam Abbas Tyrewala
Produced by	Gauri Khan
Starring	Shah Rukh Khan Deepika Padukone Shreyas Talpade Arjun Rampal
Cinematography	V. Manikandan
Edited by	Shirish Kunder
Music by	Vishal-Shekhar
Distributed by	Red Chillies Entertainment Eros Labs
Release dates	November 9, 2007
Country	India
Language	Hindi/Urdu
Budget	Rs 350,000,000 $8.9 Million (approximately)

Om Shanti Om (Hindi: ओम शान्ति ओम, Urdu: اوم شانتی اوم) is a Bollywood film directed by Farah Khan. It stars Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles as the protagonists while Shreyas Talpade and Arjun Rampal feature in supporting roles. Guest appearances are made by several stars.

Plot

Set in the 1970's, Om Prakash Makhija (Shah Rukh Khan) is a junior artist in the film industry. He and his friend Pappu (Shreyas Talpade) are trying to become big heroes one day. Om’s mother, Bela Makhija (Kirron Kher), inspires and encourages her son to become a hero. Om’s whole family consists of junior artists. Om’s love interest is the country's heart throb and the star of the film, Dreamy Girl, Shantipriya (Deepika Padukone).

During the Dreamy Girl premiere, the pallu (scarf) of Shanti’s sari gets entangled with Om’s hand. Pappu steals an exclusive pass that belongs to Mr. Manoj Kumar to watch the premiere, but have to run out when the real Manoj Kumar appears. While being dragged out of the theater Om manages to get Shanti's attention and he is awed by Shanti’s gaze.

During the shooting of film in which Shanti stars and Om is a bit player, the set catches fire in an uncontrolled manner. Shanti is trapped inside the set and Om rescues her, hurting himself. After the incident, Shanti comes to thank him personally, and incidentally she overhears Om’s love for her. They become good friends. Pappu says to Shanti that Om is a big superstar of south India film industry, and even calls her to watch him during a shoot. However, the truth is revealed he is really a junior artist and not a big star. She tells him that she thinks that he is a star to her, and he can ask her to to do anything he wants, except jump into a fire. He asks her to spend one evening together.

Shanti comes to meet Om hidden in a burkha. Om asks Shanti to bring out her hand and ask for love to anyone she loves. So Shanti goes back to find her love. But after that day they often meet each other. Next day Om manages to pass security and tries to meet Shanti in her dressing room. He overhears that Shanti is already married to Mukesh Mehra (Arjun Rampal) and is also pregnant. Mukesh first says that he wants to keep their marriage under wraps as a married heroine is not accepted in tinsel town. Mukesh also tells Shanti that he cannot officially accept this because a rich businessman is financing his upcoming film Om Shanti Om for which he requires 40 lakhs rupees. The truth is he is getting married to the daughter of the businessman. Om gets heartbroken and tries to avoid Shanti.

One night as Om is sitting near a set of Om Shanti Om he finds Mukesh and Shanti driving in to the set. Om creeps into the set and sees Mukesh telling Shanti that he has decided to cancel the film and he is going to reveal his marriage with her to the public. He also tells Shanti that he will destroy the set after they have a marriage ceremony on it. Om hears all of this and leaves, heartbroken.

After Om is gone, Mukesh changes his behavior and he holds Shanti responsible for his financial loss and sets fire in the set of the film. Om sees Mukesh going away in his car. He finds Shanti trapped inside, crying out for help. He tries to help her, but Mukesh's security guards beat him up. Even after the beating, Om tries to save Shanti, but in vain. In the blast Om is thrown outside and he sees the set explode, killing Shanti. As he runs for help, he is hit by a car owned by Rakesh Kapoor (Javed Sheikh), a well known actor who was rushing his pregnant wife to a hospital. Rakesh takes him to the hospital, but Om dies.

The film moves 30 years on after the incident. Om is reincarnated as Om Kapoor, son of Rakesh Kapoor, who was born right after Om Makhija dies and has a burn mark like the Om sign on his wrist (where Om had a tattoo). He is seen as a rising star, a star's kid, and a rich brat, who is also known as "OK".

Om Kapur sees Om Makhija's mother running along side his car. He does not recognize her yet but she recognizes him. Deciding to move onto a new film project, he has his assistant set up a shoot for the next day. They choose the same burnt studio and set of the old Om Shanti Om. As soon as he sees it, Om gets the feeling that he has been there before. As Om visits the burnt set, he remembers everything about his past life. The Filmfare Award ceremony follows, in which Om wins best actor. During the party that follows, he meets Mukesh, who has been a popular Hollywood producer for the past 25 years.

Om goes to meet Pappu and Bela, Om’s mother. He decides to remake the film Om Shanti Om with Mukesh as a way to trap him into confessing for his crime. During the audition for the role of Shanti, the crew meets Sandy or Sandhya, a look-a-like of Shantipriya. They take Mukesh to the burnt film set (where he killed Shantipryia) to announce the beginning of the film. Here, Om tries to re-enact the whole murder with the help of the new cast of Om Shanti Om. Sandy often appears to make Mukesh believe that Shanti has turned into a ghost.

However, Mukesh comes to know about the plan. Om faces Mukesh and they started fighting. Suddenly a chandelier hits Mukesh's head, making him unconscious. After he wakes up, he finds there is no one in the function except him and Om. Sandy(that is what the audience are lead to believe) appears and starts to speak lines which were not part of their plan, lines that nobody knew about. She reveals that Mukesh came back after burning the set to take care of the body (the body of the real Shantipryia) and bury it underneath the set's floor. Om realizes that she is actually Shanti's ghost. The ghost Shanti kills Mukesh by making a chandelier fall on him. At the end, Om sees the ghost of Shanti tearfully bid him good-bye. She and runs up the stairs and disappears.It is implied that Om and Sandy (who is not the reincarnation of Shantipriya) get together in the end.

Cast

• Shah Rukh Khan ... Om Prakash Makhija/Om Kapoor a.k.a OK
• Deepika Padukone ... Shanti or Shantipriya/Sandhya or Sandy
• Arjun Rampal ... Mukesh Mehra alias Mike
• Kirron Kher ... Bela Makhija
• Shreyas Talpade ... Pappu Master
• Javed Sheikh ... Rajesh Kapoor
• Bindu ... Kamini
• Nitish Pandey ... Anwar
• Yuvika Choudhary... Dolly

Special Appearances in the song Deewangi Deewangi

• Rani Mukerji
• Zayed Khan
• Vidya Balan
• Jeetendra
• Tusshar Kapoor
• Harfan Maula
• Priyanka Chopra
• Shilpa Shetty
• Dharmendra
• Shabana Azmi
• Urmila Matondkar
• Karisma Kapoor
• Arbaaz Khan
• Malaika Arora
• Dino Morea
• Amrita Arora
• Aftab Shivdasani
• Juhi Chawla
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Kajol
• Bobby Deol
• Preity Zinta
• Rekha
• Ritesh Deshmukh
• Salman Khan
• Saif Ali Khan
• Sanjay Dutt
• Lara Dutta
• Suniel Shetty
• Tabu
• Govinda

Other Special appearances

• Bipasha Basu.................. as herself
• Rishi Kapoor.................. as himself
• Subhash Ghai.................. as himself
• Karan Johar................... as himself
• Amitabh Bachchan.............. as himself
• Abhishek Bachchan............. as himself
• Rakesh Roshan................. as himself
• Hrithik Roshan................ as himself
• Akshay Kumar.................. as himself
• Shabana Azmi.................. as herself
• Feroz Khan.................... as himself
• Koena Mitra................... as herself
• Amisha Patel.................. as Om Kapoor's heroine in Filmfare Awards
• Dia Mirza..................... as Om Kapoor's heroine in Filmfare Awards
• Bappi Lahiri.................. as himself
• Farah Khan.................. as herself
• Gauri Khan.................. as herself, auditioning for the role of Shanti

Crew

• Producer: Gauri Khan
• Director: Farah Khan
• Screenplay: Farah Khan
• Story: Farah Khan, Mayur Puri & Mushtaq Sheikh
• Dialogue: Mayur Puri
• Editor: Shirish Kunder
• Music: Vishal-Shekhar
• Choreography: Farah Khan
• Lyrics: Javed Akhtar, Vishal Dadlani & Kumaar
• Cinematography: V. Manikandan
• Assistant Directors: Vaibhav Mishra, Joyeeta Chatterji, Kanika Dhillon, Pooja Desai, Parag Kalica, Arunabh Kumar, Zoa Morani
• Executive Producer: Sanjiv Chawala
• Director of Photography: V. Manikandan
• Art Director: Sabu Cyril
• Action Directors: Sham Kaushal, Aamar Shetty, Angelo Sahin
• Background Music: Sandeep Chowta
• Visual Effects Studios: Redchillies.VFX

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film released on September 18, 2007. Indiafm.com gave the music 4 out of 5 stars saying Om Shanti Om is easily one of the most complete scores by Vishal-Shekhar and Javed Akhtar. The track Deewangi Deewangi has a total of 31 stars performing in it.

Reviews

shahrukh and farah have been inspired by rakhi sawant to gain cheap publicity....anyways OSO is one of the worst movies to be seen... i guess shahrukh shud now stop workin as a hero coz he is lookin too old especially after takin steroids for body building....deepika padukone looks good only wid a chewing gum in her mouth.. coz tht helps in keepin her mouth shut...farah khan u better direct sum nonsense TV shows like your brother....songs were the only positive point of the movie especially dard -e-disco .. bollywood grow up... its high time..why such type of hype been created for such stupid movies.... dun xpect junk movies like OSO, to get oscars....Karz was far better then OSO in many ways.. its better if movie was titled "Aag hi aag" or "how to burn a set".Total waste of time and money non sense movie.....

Controversy

A controversy started when Manoj Kumar's niece called him up from London mentioning the following sequence in the film to him on phone. She was angry about the sequence in which he was shown being thrashed by policemen outside a theatre. In the movie, Shreyas Talpade's character steals Manoj Kumar's pass to enter a movie premier, and police, not being able to recognising Kumar (as his license has a photograph with him covering his face) beats him.

And after a few seconds the film shows ShahRukh giving a mock thank-you speech in a drunken state and later saying he's Manoj Kumar to the double of Simi Gerewal

Offended by this sequence of the film "Om Shanti Om",Manoj Kumar' s lawyer said the legendary actor is planning a legal action against the makers of 'Om Shanti Om'.
Kumar's lawyer Mukesh Vashi said.

"Manoj Kumar has been offended by a certain sequence in the film, and he asked me whether any legal action was possible,"

And, Manoj Kumar said

"Indian audiences had made Manoj Kumar into an icon ... That icon has been wounded, made fun of..... A moral action is more important than a legal action."

"People who make such movies do not know the meaning of respect and decency. They are criminals."

Shahrukh's Apology

Then the Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan lended an apology to Manoj Kumar for the candid little sequence in the film 'Om Shanti Om'.

Shahrukh Khan said :

"I was completely wrong... If he is hurt, I apologise,"

"I called him (Manoj Kumar) and the first thing he said to me was "it is no big deal, son,"

"People do parody...it is a done thing"

"Kumar has every right to say anything to me."

"I don't want to hurt anyone. I dont think this film should be taken seriously, it's a comedy."

"Elderly people get jolted. Our fathers and grandfathers do that. I have a lot of respect for Manoj Kumar and I admit we should have been more careful"

"I have been copying actors for the past 15 years. I never took anyone's permission. I think I should have called him to take his permission."

Box Office

The movie was a hit at the U.S box office, grossing $1.7 million in its first three days, despite opening in only 114 theatres.

References

1. "Bollybreak.com: Exclusive Leak : Songs of Om Shanti Om with lyrics". DNA. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
2. "Indiafm.com: Music review of Om Shanti Om". DNA. Retrieved 2007-04-25.
3. ^ movies.indiainfo.com (2007-11-16). "Manoj Kumar: OSO controversy". indiainfo.com. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
4. ^ CNN IBN Live (2007-10-16). CNN IBN http://www.ibnlive.com/news/shah-rukh-khan-apologises-to-manoj-kumar/52439-8.html. Retrieved 2007-11-17. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Om Shanti Om at IMDb
• Official Website

• 2007 films
• Indian films
• Hindi-language films