Farah Khan had already shown wonderful a director she is with her debut flick, Main Hoon Na. And now with Om Shanti Om, she has proved that she is not only an amazing director, but also a flawless storywriter too!
The story of the movie: Om Prakash Makhija (Shahrukh Khan) is a junior artist of the 70s working in the films produced by Mukesh Mehra (Arjun Rampal). Shanti (Deepika Padukone), a superstar also works with Mukesh and Om is madly in love with her. Om saves Shanti’s life once and then they both become friends. But then an incident occurs, which changes, devastates and ends his life forever. But he reborns as Om Kapoor (also by SRK), son of superstar Rajesh Kapoor (Javed Shaikh). He grows up as a superstar, with pyrophobia (fear of fire). And then he attempts to discover the reason behind the death of Om Prakash Makhija, the junior artist of the 70s.
Om Shanti Om, like Main Hoon Na, is a perfect entertainer-what I mean is, it has everything for everyone-humour, action, suspense, romance, tragedy, unexpectedness, dance, drama and songs. And it goes one step further than Main Hoon Na-it also has reincarnation! All this makes up a complete movie experience, which remains in the mind for a long time, maybe forever!
The beginning of the movie is fantastic and it sets the mood of the movie! Also the 1st half moves quite rapidly and therefore doesn’t bore even for a moment. The tragic scene just before the interval was superb and shows Farah Khan’s creative direction skills.
The 2nd half also doesn’t let down and the fun continues in it too. However, the best part of the 2nd half has to be the Filmfare Awards sequence and the song ‘Deewangi Deewangi’ (which consists of 31 stars). The song will surely drive everyone crazy!
The climax was totally unexpected, but it may not be liked by some as it’s little illogical. But I advice you to simply leave your brains home and go for the movie. Only then you can enjoy the movie completely.
All the main cast of the movie has given award performance-they are all capable of getting nominated and maybe also winning the award. Shahrukh Khan will surely be nominated in the Best Actor category. Deepika Padukone has high chances of winning the Best Debutant Award. Shreyas Talpade will surely be nominated for Best Supporting Role while Arjun Rampal will be in Best Actor in a Negative Role. Kirron Kher should be nominated in Best Supporting Actress or even as Best Actor in a comic role! Farah Khan deserves to be nominated for Best Director, Choregorapher, Writer and Screenplay; Vishal-Shekhar for Best Music….The list is still big and goes on and on! Whew!
To Shahrukh Khan, I’ll like to say just one thing-‘Kisi Zuban Mein Bhi Who Labhz Hi Nahi, Ke Jinse Main Tumhe Ye Bata Sakon ki how outstanding was your performance! Really, the above line may sound funny but it is the truth. He was fantastic as a junior artist in the 1st half, Southern actor and as the arrogant superstar Om Kapoor in the 2nd half! It proves why SRK is the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’! Fantastic!
Deepika Padukone does a dream debut-she is quite lucky to get a chance to work with such biggie and that too in her first movie itself. And her performance is completely likeable-there is no overacting from her side. It seems she’ll be at the top within a year or two! Great!
Arjun Rampal was outstanding in the negative role. Hopefully with his performance, filmmakers will take him again in their movies. But I can’t understand one thing-why was the old-aged Arjun Rampal looking like director Sudhir Mishra? Any special significance?!
Shreyas Talpade was excellent. He maintains a steady position throughout the movie. Kirron Kher was quite funny. She went completely into the skin of her character. Javed Shaikh was good. Urvika Chaudhary as Dolly played her part perfectly.
There are lots of actors who had made special appearances in the movie, but the one who leave a mark are: Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Kajol, Priyanka Chopra, Vidya Balan, Juhi Chawla, Mithun, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Urmila and Malaika Arora Khan. Subhash Ghai also did a great job. Surprisingly, even Amitabh Bachchan is there in the movie! I wonder how he agreed to do a miniscule role in a SRK movie!
Vishal Shekhar’s music was fantastic and their best work till date. Each song of the movie is a gem. All the important songs-Ajab Si, Dard-E-Disco, Main Aggar Kahoon, Jag Suna Lage, Daastan-E-Om Shanti Om. But the best song of the movie is Dhoom Tanna-whose music was arranged by Pyarelal (of Laxmikanth-Pyarelal duo) with a 150-plus orchestra, a rarity in today’s age of digitally arranged music making. But it helps as the song was shown to be picturized in the 70s.
Sandeep Chowta’s background score suits the mood of the movie. V Manikanandan’s cinematography was fabulous, especially the tragic scene before the intermission. Action sequences rock.
Sabu Cyril’s art direction was outstanding. He has wonderfully created the set which is used as the film studio in the movie. He completely deserves the Best Art Director award.
Shirish Kunder’s editing was as usual perfect. Mayur Puri’s dialogues were sharp.
Farah Khan is the overall biggest winner in this movie. Not only she has directed and choreographed, she also wrote a flawless story for the movie. And the story, though deals with reincarnation and therefore little predictable, is quite good clearly because of the situation in the movie as well as the climax. She has nicely picturized the songs too. Mrs. Farah, hats off to you! And she is soon going to be mother of triplets. So it’s double happiness for her!
Some of the best scenes of the movie:
1. The first scene of the movie
2. Deepika’s entry
3. The scene inside the Lido Theatre-premiere of the movie ‘Dreamy Girl’
4. The scene where SRK saves Deepika’s life
5. The song ‘Main Aggar Kahoon’, ‘Dhoom Tanna’ ‘Dard-E-Disco’, ‘Jag Soona Laage’ and ‘Dastaan-E-Om Shanti Om’
6. The scene between Arjun and Deepika in the make-up room
7. The tragic scene before the interval
8. The Filmfare Award sequence
9. The song ‘Deewangi Deewangi’
The scene between SRK and Arjun Rampal in the restaurant
The climax
On the whole, Om Shanti Om is a perfect winner this Diwali. It is a flawless flick and everything in it is perfect-performances, direction, story, screenplay, dialogues, songs, music, etc. It’s not worth watching once-it is worth watching hundred times! Just go, watch it and enjoy!!
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