Om Shanti Om
| Om Shanti Om | |
|---|---|
| File:Omshantiom.jpg Movie poster for Om Shanti Om | |
| Directed by | Farah Khan |
| Written by | Topper Alam Abbas Tyrewala |
| Produced by | Gauri Khan |
| Starring | Shahrukh Khan Deepika Padukone Shreyas Talpade |
| 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 forthcoming Bollywood film to be directed by Farah Khan. It stars Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles as the protaganists while Shreyas Talpade and Arjun Rampal feature in supporting roles.
Saawariya by Sanjay Leela Bhansali will also be releasing on the same day, which will mean high competition for Om Shanti Om
Production
Farah Khan who had earlier directed the film Main Hoon Na (2004) with was supposed to do Happy New Year but later scrapped that project to do this film.
The film's score and soundtrack are composed by the musical duo, Vishal-Shekhar with lyrics by renowned lyricist, Javed Akhtar. Composer A.R.Rahman opted out of this movie, as T-Series did not agree to share the copyrights of music with him and the lyricist.[1]
The film is based on reincarnation. Shooting of the film began in January 2007 at various locations in India. Over 30 of the Bollywood's hottest stars are putting in a guest appearance for a special song in the film. [2] The film is slated for release on November 9, 2007.
Om Shanti Om is all set to create another record of sorts by going in for an unheard of 2000 prints (worldwide) release. This is the highest number of prints (including digital) for any Indian movie till date.[3] Om Shanti Om has set a record of sorts as it has registered pre advanced booking of 18, 000 tickets in a chain of theatres in national capital Delhi a couple of days before the advance booking was to start.[4]
Baba Films, production and distribution company, has offered a record Rs.110 million for the rights to the Mumbai Circuit, easily surpassing the highest amount ever paid for the territory of Rs.85 million for Jaan-E-Mann.[5]
SRK’s Red Chillies Entertainment has reportedly sold the world rights for the film to Eros International for an amount between Rs.720-750 million.[6][7]
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. One day, he murders Shantipriya. Om finds Shantipriya in her last moments of her life. She dies and he, unable to bear the tragedy, passes away too. 30 years later, Om Kapoor a very successful, actor, who was Om Prakash in his previous life and immediately reincarnated, meets Sandy, who was Shantipriya in previous life and reincarnated. Now, only Om can recognize the murderer of Shantipriya and together they hunt the culprit of a crime committed years ago.
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
(special appearances in alphabetical order by)
- Saif Ali Khan ... Himself
- Amrita Arora ... Herself
- Malaika Arora ... Herself
- Shabana Azmi ... Herself
- Abhishek Bachchan ... Himself
- Amitabh Bachchan ... Himself
- Vidya Balan ... Herself
- Mithun Chakraborty ... Himself
- Juhi Chawla ... Herself
- Priyanka Chopra ... Herself
- Vishal Dadlani ... Himself
- Bobby Deol ... Himself
- Ritesh Deshmukh ... Himself
- Dharmendra ... Himself
- Lara Dutta ... Herself
- Sanjay Dutt ... Himself
- Subhash Ghai ... Himself
- Govinda ... Himself
- Jeetendra ... Himself
- Karan Johar ... Himself
- Kajol ... Herself
- Karisma Kapoor ... Herself
- Rishi Kapoor ... Himself
- Tusshar Kapoor ... Himself
- Arbaaz Khan ... Himself
- Salman Khan ... Himself
- Zayed Khan ... Himself
- Akshay Kumar ... Himself
- Urmila Matondkar ... Herself
- Dia Mirza ... Herself
- Dino Morea ... Himself
- Rani Mukerji ... Herself
- Amisha Patel ... Herself[8]
- Rekha ... Herself
- Hrithik Roshan ... Himself
- Shilpa Shetty ... Herself
- Sunil Shetty ... Himself
- Aftab Shivdasani ... Himself
- Sridevi ... Herself
- Tabu ... Herself
- Preity Zinta ... Herself
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
- Sound Designer: Nakul Kamte
- 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.[9] The user reviews showed a similar picture. A rating of about 4.37 out of 5 in average showed that the users are in favor of the music with many stating the title song as the best of the tracks. The track Deewangi Deewangi has a total of 31 stars performing in it.
| Untitled | |
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| Song | Singer(s) | Duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ajab Si | K.K , Lyrics: Vishal Dadlani | 4.01 | Picturised on Shahrukh Khan & Deepika Padukone |
| Dard-E-Disco | Sukhwinder Singh, Marianne, Nisha & Caralisa | 4:30 | Picturised on Shahrukh Khan |
| Deewangi Deewangi | Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Goshal, Sunidhi Chauhan & Rahul Saxena | 5.54 | Picturised on 31 stars |
| Main Agar Kahoon | Sonu Nigam & Shreya Goshal | 5.08 | Picturised on Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone |
| Jag Soona Soona Lage | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Richa Sharma Punjabi Lyrics: Kumaar | 5.29 | Picturised on Shahrukh Khan |
| Dhoom Taana | Abhijeet, Shreya Goshal | 6.13 | Picturised on Shahrukh Khan & Deepika Padukone |
| Daastaan-E-Om Shanti Om | Shaan | 7.07 | Picturised on Shahrukh Khan |
| Dard-E-Disco (Remix) | Sukhwinder Singh, Marianne, Nisha & Caralisa | 4.36 | Remix by Dj Aqeel |
| Deewangi Deewangi (Rainbow Mix) | Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Goshal, Sunidhi Chauhan & Rahul Saxena | 4.48 | Remix by Dj Kiran & Dj G |
| Om Shanti Om (Medley Mix) | Medley | 6.06 | Remix by Jackie V and Qudsi Hasan |
| Daastaan [The Dark Side Mix] | Shaan | 6.18 | Remix by Zoheb, Dj Nikhil Chinappa, Dj Nawab |
| Om Shanti Om (Theme Music)' | Instrumental | 0.58 | Instrumental |
Reviews
Indiafm a very popular Bollywood portal came out with its first review after the star-studded screening held on the 6th November and Taran Adarsh gave movie awesome 4 out 5 star rating stating the follows " At the box-office, the film will set new records in days to come and has the power to emerge one of the biggest hits of SRK's career. Blockbuster hit!".[10] On megastar Shahrukh Khan's performance Taran said "Shahrukh Khan proves his supremacy yet again" also mentioning "He's magnificent, the star attraction, the soul of this film, the true baadshah".
References
- ^ "A.R Rahman: There's no fight with Shahrukh". SIFY. Retrieved 2007-04-25.
- ^ "Sanjay, SRK, Saif Ali, Salman get framed for a special song". DNA. Retrieved 2007-04-25.
- ^ "SRK to release 2K prints of Om Shanti Om". TNN. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
- ^ "Record Pre Advance Opening". Indiafm.com. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
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- ^ "SRK filmed a romantic sequence with Ameesha Patel". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^ "Indiafm.com: Music review of Om Shanti Om". DNA. Retrieved 2007-04-25.
- ^ "Indiafm.com: Movie review of Om Shanti Om". DNA. Retrieved 2007-11-06.