Om Shanti Om (2007)

Director:

Farah Khan

Writers:

Farah Khan (story)
Mushtaq Sheikh (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

7 November 2007 (Belgium)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

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

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Fire | Bollywood | Friend | Love

Awards:

4 wins & 15 nominations

Cast

Shahrukh 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:
Sev Anand	...	Dev Anand
Amrita Arora	...	Herself
Malaika Arora	...	Herself (as Malaika Arora Khan)
Shabana Azmi	...	Herself
Abhishek Bachchan	...	Himself
Amitabh Bachchan	...	Himself
Vidya Balan	...	Herself
Bipasha Basu	...	Herself
Mithun Chakraborty	...	Himself
Suresh Chatwal	...	Suresh - Junior Artiste
Juhi Chawla	...	Herself
Priyanka Chopra	...	Herself
Yash Chopra	...	Himself
Sabu Cyril	...	Film Doctor
Vishal Dadlani	...	Himself
Bobby Deol	...	Himself
Ritesh Deshmukh	...	Himself (as Ritiesh Deshmukh)
Dhananjay	...	Dharmendra
Dharmendra	...	Himself
Kanika Dhillon	...	Film Heroine
Dominic	...	Govinda Ahuja
Lara Dutta	...	Herself
Sanjay Dutt	...	Himself
Sunil Dutt	...	Appearance in song
Subhash Ghai	...	Himself
Govinda	...	Himself
Jeetendra	...	Himself
Karan Johar	...	Himself
Kajol	...	Herself
Nakul Kamte	...	Makhija
Karisma Kapoor	...	Herself
Rishi Kapoor	...	Himself
Sanjay Kapoor	...	Himself
Tusshar Kapoor	...	Himself
Arbaaz Khan	...	Himself
Farah Khan	...	Agressive Junior Artiste / Herself
Feroz Khan	...	Himself
Mahesh Khanna	...	Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna	...	Appearance in song
Saif Ali Khan	...	Himself
Salman Khan	...	Himself
Zayed Khan	...	Himself
Akshay Kumar	...	Himself
Nagesh Kumar	...	Shatrughan Sinha / Rajesh Khanna
Bappi Lahiri	...	Himself
Manikandan	...	Film Director
Urmila Matondkar	...	Herself (as Urmila)
Diya Mirza	...	Herself (as Dia Mirza)
Koena Mitra	...	Herself
Mohan	...	Mithun Chakraborty
Dino Morea	...	Himself
Rani Mukherjee	...	Herself
Sanjeev Mulchandani	...	Film Villain
Chunky Pandey	...	Himself (as Chunkey Pandey)
Ameesha Patel	...	Herself
Raman	...	Ricky Sandhu
Rekha	...	Herself
Hrithik Roshan	...	Himself
Rakesh Roshan	...	Himself
Salim	...	Manoj Kumar
Samapika	...	Wannabe Shantipriya
Mushtaq Sheikh	...	Roadside sleeper
Shilpa Shetty	...	Herself
Sunil Shetty	...	Himself (as Suniel Shetty)
Aftab Shivdasani	...	Himself
Tabu	...	Herself
Vishwajeet	...	Prem Chopta
Preity Zinta	...	Herself

Runtime:

162 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:12A | UK:12A | Singapore:PG | Australia:M | USA:PG-13 | India:UA | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Red Chillies Entertainment

Trivia:

The song "Dard-E-Disco" was originally to be shot with only Shakira after Farah Khan choreographed her performance at the 2006 VMA's, but her upcoming concert tours rendered her unavailable. Then Farah Khan recalled a promise 'Shah Rukh Khan' made to her when shooting the song "Jiye Jale" in Dil Se.. (1998): that if he would show his abs for another film, it would be for a film she was directing. She called upon his promise, and he shot for the song.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Mukhesh Mehra locks up Shanthi in the burning studio of OSO while kissing her good bye, his hands change. From inside it’s the right hand, but from outside shot its the left hand.

Quotes:

Om Kapoor: Call me OK, everyone in Bollywood does.

Movie Connections:

References Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Soundtrack:

All Cool Girls Join Hands & Sing Om Shanti Om

How I love Farah Khan humor!

This is the the good, the big Bellwood war machine! Let us look at this film as we look " I hate the actors ", " The Player " or " Big tiredness " (Michel Blanc's). A film on the crushing industry of the cinema, here The cinema of Mumbai. It was necessary that somebody makes it, Farah Khan, Géniale Farah Khan, made it! We, French people, search a hidden sense from things, here, it is not necessary. Not because it is not subtle, but because to haunt the criticism of middle are big: libidinous producer, incompetent starlets, actor without brain, , films tight budgets, big benefits " The director " Farah one even, makes fun of her even as film director. She tries to take a piece of costume of a pseudo star of the song of 1970s, she arrives late at the red carpet of promo of her own film. She is the Indian "Alain Chabat". Forgiveness Farah! But it would be better to say that "Alain Chabat" is the French Farah Khan.

Let us say that Farah has already made the worst with Main Hoon Na (2004) where the right Hindi is broadly attacked with a lot of humor. With humor it trickles down in every minute. Principal actor you, the big, the one, the only, the king Shah Rukh Khan – his spouse is productive of the film, reason for which undoubtedly there are lot of sequence with him - is forty-year, so cute, but forty really. He introduces us a torso of first young person to make turn pale generations going up, and it is in excess, such as Farah is able of showing it, as created gap and irony of the sequence of dance Dard-e-Disco. Also I recommend the film fare sequence where numerous actors, stars not questioned by the millions of audience of the films of industry of Bombay, take part in the game of the gibe of their fame, as seldom an actor is able of making it. We are not capable of realizing to what extent references to the Indian cinema are referred. But one is recognized even by a french : in the mouth of one of those which plays a movie director: " I would make an angle as Satyagit Ray an angle as Bimal Roy and an angle as Guru Dutt ", " happy you to make your own angle ! ", answers him fop producer come to shake the main actress who makes a last minute fad. (I think that she claims his wage! She has a brass neck!). Il like this film and also I love Farah!!!