Om Shanti Om (2007)

Genre:
Action, Drama, Romance

Cast:
Shahrukh Khan... Om Prakash Makhija/Om Kapoor
Deepika Padukone ... Shantipriya/Sandy
Arjun Rampal ... Mukesh Mehra
Kirron Kher ... Bela Makhija
Shreyas Talpade ... Pappu Master
Bindu ... Kamini
Javed Sheikh ... Rajesh Kapoor
Satish Shah ... Partho Ray
Yuvika Chaudary ... Dolly
Shahwar Ali ... Shawar

Director:
Farah Khan

Music composers:
Vishal-Shekhar

Plot Synopsis:
This film is based on reincarnation. The story starts in 1977: a junior artist Om Prakash Makhija (Shahrukh Khan) falls for Shantipriya (Deepika Padukone) an actress famous for her beauty. Om is happy that she likes him. But, his heart breaks when he finds out that she loves someone else. Shantipriya dosen't know that the man she loves is an evil person with evil intentions. Alas, one day, he murders Shantipriya. Om finds Shantipriya in her last moments. She dies and he, unable to bear the tragedy, passes away too. 30 years later, Om Kapoor, who was Om Prakash in previous life, (Shahrukh Khan) meets Sandy, who was Shantipriya in previous life. Now, only Om can recognize the murderer of Shantipriya and two get together each other to hunt the culprit of a crime commited years ago.

Official Website: http://www.omshantiomfilm.com/



Release Date:
9 November 2007

Here is another poster of the film. It is so 1970s style.

'Om Shanti Om' beats 'Saawariya' at the box office
11 Nov, 2007, 0209 hrs IST, IANS

NEW DELHI: The audience verdict is out. The box office seems to favour Shah Rukh Khan's " Om Shanti Om " in comparison to Sanjay Leela Bhansali's much-touted magnum opus " Saawariya ".

While King Khan's film registered 90 percent occupancy across the country on its Diwali release, Bhansali's love story managed 60 percent.

" Om Shanti Om " is director Farah Khan's tribute to the colourful and vibrant cinemas of the 70s and it has Shah Rukh is a new avatar, going shirtless and displaying his six-pack abs, while Bhansali's film is a mystical love story set in Shimla and introduces new faces.

According to Vishal Kapur, COO of Fun Cinemas, the Shah Rukh film has generated a lot of repeat audience interest in comparison to " Saawariya ".

"Among our 15 cineplexes across the country, the bigger ones did a business of at least Rs.500,000 and smaller ones Rs.150,000 on Friday. ' Saawariya ' churned out Rs.350,000 at the big centres, while at the smaller ones it could only manage to collect Rs.78,000," Kapur told IANS.

Kapur feels that " Om Shanti Om " could prove an even bigger Shah Rukh hit than his last " Chak De! India ".

"It could do better than 'Chak De! ' which picked up after the positive reviews. However, 'Om Shanti Om ' had a great opening. I am a little doubtful about ' Saawariya '," said Kapur.

The audience response can be gauged from Anirban Basu, a movie buff who saw both the films. " 'Om Shanti Om' is much more entertaining than 'Saawariya' . SRK's film has a perfect blend of comedy and drama while Bhansali's film is stale and boring. It is extremely slow. Apart from the lavish sets there is nothing in the film to hold the audiences' interest."

The difference of how well both the films would do in the coming days is also evident from the advance bookings.

"For Saturday, 50 percent of advance booking has been done for 'Om Shanti Om' while for 'Saawariya' it is just a little over 20 percent," said Ashok Bisht, assistant manager of JAM multiplex, Noida.

With both the films in tough competition, the weekend will prove boom time for the multiplexes across the country.

"With two big films releasing the same day, this weekend will prove to be a big money spinner for all multiplexes. However, we have noticed a new trend among some viewers - they want to watch both films," said Gautam Dutt, chief marketing officer of PVR Cinema.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2532328.cms

There was already a thread on Om Shanti Om? In that case, I'll just re-post my post here instead:


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I don't really think it's necessary giving away that much detail. To be honest, I never even had any idea the story was about reincarnation when I went to watch it. That's probably why I didn't find the film too predictable.

Yes I made this thread last month. So you have already watched this movie. I was fluctuating between Om Shanti Om and Sawariya. I will go for Om Shanti Om after reading your post thanks.


Okey from now on I will not give a synopsis of a movie prior to it's release.

I haven't seen Saawariya yet, but I hear it's the first Bollywood production to be produced by a Hollywood studio (Sony Pictures Entertainment) and introduces Rishi Kapoor's son (Ranbir Kapoor) and Anil Kapoor's daughter (Sonam Kapoor). I also hear it's an adaptation of a Russian novel (Fyodor Dostoevsky's White Nights) and that there was a dispute between Sony Pictures and Shahrukh Khan over the simultaneous release date, but neither one was willing to budge their release dates.


Nah, it's always good to give a plot synopsis for every movie just so people know what the basic story is about, as long as you make it a brief overview without giving away many plot details.

One of the worst plots ive ever read, take the star hype away & this movie wouldnt make any money.

Have you actually seen the movie yet? You shouldn't judge a film just based on what you "read" but only on what you watch. Either way, Om Shanti Om is not just about the plot, but there's much more to it than just that. In all honesty, I doubt any plot synopsis can do justice to Om Shanti Om.

I have read you posts about Indian movies before. Do you have anything good to say about Indian movies? Or you are just like most ABCDs who approves any Hollywood movie being thrust up their throat with closed eyes and idle minds.

I moved to america when I was 9 so I cant be an "abcd", I dont watch hindi movies much since the nearest indian store is about an hour away & I prefer telugu movies a bit more since I only understand 1/2 of what they say in hindi movies(couldnt understand $hit in fanaa when aamir khan was talking on the bus). I recently saw namaste london & I liked it over fanna. I just dislike stupid movies where the plot is just stringed together to make a quick buck due to the stars name.

Om Shanti Om and Saawariya were both apparently the world's highest-grossing movies last weekend:


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You know, you should at least watch the movie before judging it.

P.S. I'm also a Gantz fan!

I saw both and liked both (OSO & Saawariya). OSO is more fun but Saawariya was sweet. Depends on your taste.

now thats not right.

Yup. That plot summary is quite inaccurate.

Good opening at overseas and indian market but still not up to the mark and old hope and glory is already vanish....

I watched both Om Shanti Om ane Saarwatiya

Om Shanti Om has got to be the best movie of this year! Soooo funny and fantastic songs! I was laughing so much through out the movie, and there were lots of very clever one liners. Lets not forget Shah Rukh with his six pacs and 30 other bollywood actors also. Its a fantastic movie and everyone should watch it!

Saarwatiya was OK. It had a melancholy feel to it, sort of like Moulan Rouge, but the movie didn't quite reach what it was supposed to. It's nice and sweet, but I found the chemistry between the actors weren't that great. The movie had lots of potential but didn't quite deliver. Overall its an ok movie, a bit different, but after watching Om Shanti Om, I wasn't overall impressed with this one.

Saw it at the theater last week and it's brilliant, to desis only ofcourse. It's not meant to be watched for the plot but for the production, the sillyness, the songs and the music videos, brilliant!

I'm non desi but grew up with Bollywood and got the parodies in OSO.

Mind if I ask what you are?

I thought you were a Desi all this time. I assume you're Hmong then?

Correct. Why would you guess Hmong?? hahaha

I was post-stalking you, duh.

At last I watched it. It is not a brilliant movie but yes a nice entertainer. Overall I liked the movie.

OSO : A big hit in Germany

Manik Mehta

Saturday, February 9, 2008: (Berlin):

Screaming fans and high-pitched media coverage greeted Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, when he arrived here for the screening of his blockbuster film Om Shanti Om or OSO, as locals call it, at the ongoing Berlinale, the Berlin Film Festival.

The huge and almost uncontrollable turnout at the Berlinale of both German and non-German fans Friday night also goes to prove that Germany is shedding its negative perception of what Germans once described, not without contempt, as "exotic films", the "dance-and-song musicals" produced by "Mumbai's dream factories".

Indeed, ever since German television started showing Bollywood films a few years ago, the rise in Bollywood's popularity in Germany has been quite phenomenal. German-language Bollywood websites have started to appear and hundreds of bloggers routinely discuss in German not only Bollywood films but also the personal lives of their favourite stars.

"Shah Rukh Khan is rated as the biggest Bollywood film star in Germany, even surpassing the Big B (Amitabh Bachhan)," says Ramesh Sinha, an Indian businessman who does outsourcing for Germans and who is himself a Bollywood buff.

"Shah Rukh's two superhits Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham were well received in Germany, with fans thronging to video shops to lay their hands on audio and video cassettes and DVDs of Shah Rukh's films," Sinha said.

Shah Rukh, whose Om Shanti Om is being screened in a section called Berlinale Special, acknowledged that he may be a "big movie star" in India but he definitely was "humbled" by the atmosphere at the Berlinale.

The Bollywood superstar was ostensibly touched by the spontaneous and emotional welcome given to him by the German fans. Film experts and the entire German media, from the sensational Boulevard tabloid Bild to the conservative broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, described it as unprecedented that tickets for OSO were sold out in less than seven minutes.

A surprised Shah Rukh quipped, "I thought they (the audiences) must have mistaken the movie title!"

Indeed, the tickets were completely sold out after only seven minutes. According to one employee at the Berlinale ticket office, there had been at least 20,000 queries for tickets through the Internet.

Source - http://www.ndtvmovies.com

I didn't like this movie much, too predictable like Don.