Om Shanti Om (2007-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Om Shanti Om Movie Details :

Om Shanti Om is a 2007 Indian Bollywood romantic fantasy film directer and co-writter are Farah Khan with Mayur Puri and Mushtaq Shiekh. It stars Shah Rukh Khan as Om, a junior artist in 1977 who has a crush on a secretly married superstar, played by Deepika Padukone in her Hindi film debut. Her lover, a producer played by Arjun Rampal, kills her in a fire; Om witnesses this and dies from the injuries sustained from trying to rescue her. Reincarnated as a superstar in 2007, he seeks to avenge his love. Om Shanti Om also starred Shreyas Talpade, Kirron Kher, Bindu Desai and Javed Sheikh in supporting roles, and saw cameos from many Bollywood celebrities in several sequences and songs.

The film was produced and presented by Shah Rukh’s wife Gauri Khan under the banner Red Chillies Entertainment on a budget of ₹50 crore. Farah conceived Om Shanti Om while directing the musical Bombay Dreams (2002), which was based on the Indian film industry. After Shah Rukh rejected the first version of her next film Happy New Year, she was reminded of Om Shanti Om; the film’s title derives from a similar titled popular song from the 1980 film Karz. The soundtrack album was composed by Vishal–Shekhar, with lyrics written by Javed Akhtar. The background score was performed by Sandeep Chowta. The album received positive reviews and was also commercially successful, becoming the highest-selling album of the year in India.

The film was theatrically released in India on 9 November 2007 during Diwali weekend, Om Shanti Om earned over 215 crore worldwide becoming the highest grossing Bollywood film of the year; it received positive reviews, with praise for the performances and the film’s narrative. The film won several awards in major Indian film award ceremonies. At 53rd Filmfare Awards, it received 12 nominations, winning for Best Female Debut and Best Special Effects, and also won the National Film Award for Best Production Design. The climax of the movie was inspired by the climax of 1958 Hindi movie Madhumati.

• Directer : Farah Khan
• Producer : Red Chillies Entertainment
• Writter : Mayur Puri
• Screenplay : Farah Khan,Mushtaq shiekh
• Story : Farah Khan
• Starring : Shah Rukh Khan,Deepika Padukone,Arjun Rampal,Shreyas Talpade,Kirron Kher
• Music/Songs : Vishal-Shekhar Laxmikant Pyarelal
• Background Score : Sandeep Chowta
• Cinematography : V. Manikandan
• Editer : Shirish Kunder
• Art Direction : Sabu Cyril
• Costume Design : Karan Johar ,Manish Malhotra,Sanjeev Mulchandani,Nakul Sen
• Makeup Department : Cherag Bambboat,Namrata Soni
• Production Management : Sameer Khan,Deven Munjal,Rajesh Keshav Vanmali
• Special Effects : Redchillies.VFX
• Visual Effects : Dwivedi Amit,Supriya Avate,Prakash Bhoir,Prince Chaurasia
• Action Directer : Deepaksharma,Sham Kaushal,Angelo Sahin,Amar Shetty,Paramjeet Singh
• Production Company : Films & Casting Temple Pvt. Ltd. Sydney,Red Chillies Entertainment
• Distributors : Eros International,Red Chillies Entertainment,Uplink,Bollywood Europa,Rapid Eye Movies
• Genres : Action,Comedy,Drama,Musical,Romance,Thriller
• Release date : 9 November 2007
• Running time : 170 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Star Cast of The Film :

• Shah Rukh Khan as Om Prakash Makhija / Om Kapoor aka O.K. – A famous actor who experiences pyrophobia because of his past life, Om Prakash
• Deepika Padukone as Shantipriya Kashyap aka Shanti / Sandhya Bansal aka Sandy – Om Kapoor’s love interest who is exact doppelgänger of Om Prakash’s love interest, Shantipriya (Mona Ghosh Shetty as the Hindi dubbing voice)
• Arjun Rampal as Mukesh Mehra aka Mike – Shanti’s husband and murderer who is killed by Shanti’s ghost after 30 years
• Shreyas Talpade as Pappu Master – Om Prakash’s friend who supported Om Kapoor later
• Kirron Kher as Bela Makhija – Om Prakash’s mother
• Bindu Desai as Kamini Arora – Dolly’s mother
• Javed Sheikh as Rajesh Kapoor – Om Kapoor’s father
• Satish Shah as Partho Roy
• Yuvika Chaudhary as Dolly Arora – Kamini’s daughter and Om Kapoor’s friend
• Nitesh Pandey as Anwar – Om Kapoor’s assistant
• Asawari Joshi as Lovely Kapoor – Om Kapoor’s mother
• Nasser Abdullah as Nasser
• Shawar Ali as Shawar
• Lin Laishram as Om Kapoor’s friend
• Cameo appearances
• Amitabh Bachchan as himself
• Anil Kapoor as himself
• Uday Chopra as himself
• Hrithik Roshan as himself
• Abhishek Bachchan as himself
• Akshay Kumar as himself
• Bipasha Basu as herself
• Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as herself
• Kareena Kapoor Khan as herself
• Ameesha Patel as herself, Om Kapoor’s heroine at Filmfare Awards
• Dia Mirza as herself, Om Kapoor’s heroine at Filmfare Awards.
• Arshad Warsi as himself
• Gul Panag as herself
• Bappi Lahiri as himself
• Chunky Pandey as himself
• Dhananjay Singh as himself
• Farah Khan as the woman who makes fun of Om Prakash when the show ends.
• Feroz Khan as himself
• Gauri Khan as herself
• Karan Johar as himself
• Koena Mitra as herself
• Malaika Arora Khan as herself
• Mayur Puri as the director of Apahij Pyar
• Vishal Dadlani as the director of Mohabbat Man, a superhero film
• Manikandan Velayutham as the director of Mind It, a parody of action films
• Priya Patil as Natasha, heroine of Apahij Pyar
• Rakesh Roshan as himself
• Rishi Kapoor as himself
• Shabana Azmi as herself
• Soumya Seth as Audience
• Subhash Ghai as himself while shooting his iconic film Karz.
• Yash Chopra as himself
• Special appearances during the song “Deewangi Deewangi” (in appearance order)
• Rani Mukerji
• Zayed Khan
• Vidya Balan
• Jeetendra Kapoor
• Tusshar Kapoor
• Priyanka Chopra Jonas
• Shilpa Shetty
• Dharmendra Deol
• Shabana Azmi
• Urmila Matondkar
• Karisma Kapoor
• Arbaaz Khan
• Malaika Arora Khan
• Dino Morea
• Amrita Arora
• Juhi Chawla
• Aftab Shivdasani
• Tabu Hashmi
• Govinda Ahuja
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Kajol Devgan
• Bobby Deol
• Preity Zinta
• Rekha Ganesan
• Riteish Deshmukh
• Saif Ali Khan
• Salman Khan
• Sanjay Dutt
• Lara Dutta
• Sunil Shetty
• Gauri Khan
• Rishi Kapoor

Story of The Film :

Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artist in the 1970’s hindi film industry, who is in love with actress Shantipriya. Om rescues Shanti from a fire scene where the fire has escaped control, and they become friends. His hopes seems to be coming true, but shortly thereafter he finds out that she is married to a film producer, Mukesh Mehra, and is expecting his child. He then watches in horror as Mukesh, after luring her in an abandoned studio, sets it on fire to prevent a financial loss and protect his career. Om attempts to rescue her in vain, and he eventually is killed. 30 years later, Om has reincarnated as the only son of a Bollywood actor, Rajesh Kapoor, and is himself an actor. His memories start to return when he meets with his widowed mother, Bela, from his previous birth. He also meets with Mukesh and together they decide to make a movie ‘Om Shanti Om’. Om then hires a look-alike of Shantipriya, and hopes to force a confession out of Mukesh – but things go awry and Om finds his …

Production :

Development :

In 2002, Farah Khan worked as a choreographer for the musical Bombay Dreams in London, which she felt presented a “clichéd and outdated version” of the Indian film industry. She thought that the musical would not be successful if released in India. She instead thought of a new story, writing her initial thoughts about the subject on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s letterhead while staying in his house. Later in 2006, Farah began to work on her next project, which was tentatively titled Happy New Year. Amid speculations that Shah Rukh Khan would star in Happy New Year, the actor rejected the first draft of the film, upon which Farah’s husband and editor Shirish Kunder reminded her of the story she had conceived while in London. Happy New Year, which was to mark Deepika Padukone’s Hindi debut, was put on hiatus and revived more than 8 years later under the same title.

Farah completed writing the first script of Om Shanti Om within two weeks. She set the first half in the 1970s as she felt the Hindi films made during that period were much more influential than those made in other periods, particularly the 1980s, which she felt was a period when “the worst movies were made”. She also included many references to the 1970s, which were also prevalent in films of that time. She said, “Everything in the first half is about the 70s—such as the mother who overacts, mouthing clichéd dialogues. Then there are cabarets, badminton and other stuff popular during that era.”[8] Shah Rukh’s costumes were designed by Karan Johar, while Manish Malhotra designed Padukone’s costumes. The rest of the cast had their costumes designed by Sanjeev Mulchadni.

In addition to directing the film, Farah co-wrote the story with Mayur Puri and Mushtaq Shiekh. She was also the film’s choreographer. Puri wrote the screenplay and dialogues. He completed the writing process in two months and rewrote the film’s second half. Puri created the screenplay by writing his natural reaction to the characters as scenarios. He knew that despite being part of a crowd, junior artists do not want to be recognized as such, ruins their chances of landing a leading role in future. This was used in a sequence involving Shah Rukh and Talpade, who play junior artists. Puri blended different genres together in Om Shanti Om, which he felt was challenging. He used his personal memories from childhood for creating the 1970s. Shirish Kunder was the editor, while V. Manikandan was the cinematographer.

Sabu Cyril was the film’s production designer. Sabu was first offered the Mani Ratnam-directed Guru (2007) at a time when Om Shanti Om was being planned, but ultimately chosen the latter due to his earlier commitment to Farah for her future project. Farah used two particular dialogues in the film: “When you want something badly, the whole universe conspires to give to you” and “In the end everything will be ok and if its not ok its not the end”. These were used as Khan felt that it reflected her philosophy in her life. Farah stated that the film’s opening scene was her most favorite in it. In 2008, Puri felt his most favourite dialogue from the ones he wrote would be the Filmfare Awards speech. The film’s title derives from the eponymous song from the film Karz (1980). Om is a Hindu mantra; Om Shanti Om roughly translates to “Peace Be With You”.

The film opens with the grandeur shot of the most famous songs of Karz that is Om Shanti Om featuring Rishi Kapoor and SRK as junior artist standing in the crowd.

Film Casting :

Deepika Padukone plays the love interest of Shah Rukh’s character in her Hindi film debut.
Shah Rukh was cast as the lead; he gained six packs for a song sequence. He felt Om Shanti Om was a “happy film”. Farah was advised by Malaika Arora to cast Padukone as the female lead, who was suggested by Wendell Roddick, under whom Padukone was working. She was cast without a screen test. Khan felt that she was “a beautiful, classic Indian beauty” who fit the role of an actor of the 1970s. She was excited at the prospect of working with Shah Rukh and said, “I’ve grown up watching and always admired him so much. To get to work with him … is quite wonderful. It was also fantastic that Farah showed faith in my talent and cast me opposite him.”

In preparation for her role, Padukone watched several films of actresses Helen and Hema Malini to study their body language. Her character was modelled after Malini and nicknamed Dreamy Girl after her the latter’s nickname as Dream Girl. Rampal was approached by both Khan and Shah Rukh at the latter’s New Year’s Eve party. Rampal was initially reluctant to do the role as he felt it was “too evil” for someone like him. With persuasion from Shah Rukh, he agreed. Rampal wore a mustache in the film which was suggested by Shah Rukh. Shreyas Talpade played a supporting role as the best friend of Khan’s character. After the release of Iqbal (2005) and completing the filming of Dor, Talpade, who attended the same gym as Khan, was called for a narration of what would be Om Shanti Om. He agreed to do the role.

Kirron Kher, Bindu and Javed Sheikh also appear in the film. 31 Bollywood film actors appeared in cameo appearances for the song “Deewangi Deewangi”. Other actors were also supposed to play cameos, including Fardeen Khan, who was arrested at Dubai airport in a drug case. Dev Anand refused as he always played lead roles in his career. Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu didn’t appear in the song, despite plans to include them. Amitabh Bachchan refused due to his son’s wedding, while Aamir Khan refused due to Taare Zameen Par’s (2007) pending editing. Khan had wanted the three Khans to appear together in a film. Rekha, who appears in the song, carried out 2 days of rehearsal for it. All those who appeared for the song received gifts, including a Blackberry phone and a Tag Heuer watch.

Film Shooting :

Om Shanti Om was made on a budget of 40 million. The first scene to be filmed was one where Talpade’s character tells Shah Rukh’s character that he will be a hero; Shah Rukh was an hour late for filming. Farah was pregnant with triplets while filming and experienced difficulties while shooting, she would constantly vomit while directing the film. The film was shot entirely in sync sound; Farah dismissed rumours of Padukone’s voice being dubbed. In 2015, however, Mona Ghosh Shetty admitted to have dubbed for Padukone in the film. The fake fight scene involving a stuffed tiger was inspired by a similar scene in the film Tarzan 303. Old cars owned by actors Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini were used for filming for authenticity.

A number of references to real life was also filmed, including a scene in which Om saves Shantipriya from a fire, which was a spoof of Sunil Dutt rescuing Nargis from a fire on the sets of Mother India (1957). For a shot involving a Filmfare Awards ceremony, Khan stood on the red carpet of an actual Filmfare Award ceremony and requested actors to dictate dialogues as she stated. The song “Deewangi Deewangi” was shot over a period of six days. The song “Dhoom Tana” has digitally altered guest appearances, which included Sunil Dutt from Amrapali (1966), Rajesh Khanna from Sachaa Jhutha (1970) and Jeetendra from Jay Vejay (1977). Farah wanted to film Shakira for filming a special appearance had made her commit a few days for the role. Due to the uncertainty of her dates, the idea was scrapped.

In February 2007, a film shooting schedule was completed in Film City. It was then reported that film shooting would move outdoors after Shah Rukh completed filming for Kaun Banega Crorepati. In October 2007, Abhishek Bachchan finished filming for his cameo appearance; he shot between 10 and 2 in the night for his screen time of about one and a half minutes. Filming of the last sequence and the end-credit song was done in Film City. Farah continued the tradition of featuring an end-credits song beginning with Main Hoon Na (2004).

Om Shanti Om was produced by Shah Rukh’s wife Gauri Khan under their Red Chillies Entertainment banner. While Marching Ants handled the publicity design, Gauri was the presenter. Shyam Kaushal, Amar Shetty and Shah Rukh were the action directors. The film’s final reel length was 4013.94 ft (1223.45 m).

Om Shanti Om Movie Songs / Music :

Initially, A. R. Rahman was signed in to compose original songs and background score for the film but he opted out after disagreements with T-Series as he wanted them to share the copyrights of music between him and the lyricist. The film score was composed by Sandeep Chowta while the original songs featured in Om Shanti Om were composed by the duo Vishal-Shekhar with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. One song was composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. The vocals are provided by KK, Sukhwinder Singh, Marianne, Nisha, Caralisa Monteiro, Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahul Saxena, Sonu Nigam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Richa Sharma, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, DJ Aqeel, DJ G, Kiran Karnath, Jackie V, Nikhil Chinapa, DJ Nawed and Zoheb. They intended the soundtrack to be a tribute to the music of the 1960s and 1970s, while appealing to newer audiences at the same time. Trade reports predicted the album to be commercially successful. The soundtrack album of Om Shanti Om was released on 10 October 2007 on CD.

Pyarelal of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo guest composed the title Dhoom Taana. He had stopped composing after the death of his partner Laxmikant, but after Farah Khan requested a song as tribute to the music of the 70s and the 80s, he agreed at the insistence of his wife and daughter. The song was recorded with a 150-member-orchestra and traditional instruments like drums, tabla, dholak and dafli, a trademark of Laxmikant-Pyarelal. He used more than 40 different percussion instruments.

In a soundtrack review, Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave it four stars out of five and opines, “Om Shanti Om is easily one of the most complete scores by Vishal-Shekhar and Javed Akhtar.” Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com also gave it four stars out of five, applauding the tracks but criticized the “Dark Side” mix. She concludes her review by writing, “Om Shanti Om is an out and out musical that captivates with its roaring polyphony and unabashed drama.” Aakash Gandhi of Planet Bollywood gave a rating of 8.5 stars out of 10 and writes, “not only have proven themselves in terms of musical ingenuity and quality, they have shown us the confidence, the poise, and the ability to step up to the plate and hit a grand-slam when they’re called upon to do so.” He further gave them a “standing ovation”. Writing for AllMusic, Bhaskar Gupta gave the album four and a half stars out of five and praises the composers, writing, “Vishal-Shekhar finally delivered a soundtrack that could be deemed their signature offering.”

Vishal-Shekhar was nominated for Best Music at the 53rd Filmfare Awards, Producers Guild Awards 2008 and Zee Cine Awards 2008, winning for Best Composer at the 2nd Asian Film Awards. Vishal Dadlani was alone nominated for Best Lyrics at the Filmfare and Producers Film Guild award ceremonies. Akhtar was nominated for Best Lyrics at the Filmfare and Zee Cine awards, winning at the 9th IIFA Awards. It was the highest-selling music album of the year in India, with sales of around 2 million units.

• “Ajab Si” – KK
• “Dard-e-Disco” – Sukhwinder Singh, Caralisa Monteiro, Nisha, Marianne
• “Deewangi Deewangi” – Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahul Saxena
• “Main Agar Kahoon” – Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Jag Soona Soona Lage (lyrics by Kumaar)” – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Richa Sharma
• “Dhoom Taana” – Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Dastaan-E-Om Shanti Om” – Shaan
• “Dard-e-Disco” (Remix) – Sukhwinder Singh, Caralisa Monteiro, Nisha, Marianne
• “Deewangi Deewangi” (Rainbow Mix) – Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahul Saxena
• “Om Shanti Om” (Medley Mix) Sukhwinder Singh, Caralisa Monteiro, Nisha, Marianne, Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahul Saxena, Abhijeet Bhattacharya
• “Dastaan-E-Om Shanti Om” – (Dark Mix) Shaan
• “Om Shanti Om” – (Instrumental)

 “Deewangi Deewangi” Full Video Song :

• Singer – Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghosal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahul Saxena
• Lyricist – Javed Akhtar
• Music Director – Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani
• Music On – T-Series

 “Dastaan-E-Om Shanti Om” Full Video Song :

• Singer – Shaan
• Lyricist – Javed Akhtar
• Music – Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani
• Music Label – T-Series

Release :

Om Shanti Om created a record of sorts by going in for an unheard of 2000 prints (worldwide) release. This was the highest number of prints (including digital) for any Indian movie at the time of its release. Om Shanti Om set another record for registered pre-advance booking of 18,000 tickets in a chain of theatres in Delhi a few days before the advance booking was to start. A special screening was conducted for Bollywood actors. Red Chillies Entertainment had reportedly sold the world rights for the film to Eros International for an amount between Rs. 720–750 million. Baba Films, a production and distribution company, had offered a record Rs. 110 million for the rights to the Mumbai Circuit, surpassing the highest amount ever paid for the territory. As a marketing strategy, Amul advertised Shah Rukh.

Nina Davuluri’s talent for Miss America 2014 was a Hindi Film fusion dance choreographed by Nakul Dev Mahajan and performed to Dhoom Taana. It was the first time Hindi Film ever appeared on the Miss America stage and Davuluri is the first Indian American to win the competition. Om Shanti Om was remade into a Japanese musical titled Oomu Shanti Oumu. A book, titled The Making of Om Shanti Om written by Mushtaq Sheikh, was released after the release of the film. The book gives an insight into the production and happenings behind the camera of the film

Om Shanti Om Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.9 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 234.

If you sit to watch a typical Bollywood Commercial masala movie, Leave your brains behind. Om Shanti Om is one such film that entertains you in every aspect.

Om Shanti Om is the story of the Indian Film World. It is the story of a Junior Artist (Extra) Om Prakash Makhija (Shah Rukh Khan) who dreams to become a superstar one day. He is madly in love with Shanti Priya (Deepika Podukone) who is a super star and she is in love with a film producer Mukesh Ahuja (Arjun Rampal). Mukesh after learning this fact that Shanti is pregnant with his child and his most ambitious project will come to hold if he marries her, He kills her. This whole event is witnessed by Shanti’s good friend and her secret lover Om. Even Om dies in that tragic accident while trying to save Shanti. Mukesh runs to Hollywood and get’s married there a multi-millionaire’s daughter.

But destiny has a total different story to tell… Om is reborn again after 30 years as a Super Star Om Kapoor (Shah Rukh Khan) and the destiny makes om meets Sandy (Deepika Podukone) who is a look alike of Shanti Priya. Om and Sandy make a plan to trap Mukesh who comes back to India after 30 years to make a film with Om. The evil get’s punished and the truth wins forms the rest of the film.

Technically the film is just brilliant. It shows on the screen the amount of money that has been spent into the making. The sets are glossy and breath taking. The camera work is just superb. The editing is fantastic and crispy. Musically a very decent and a good effort. Especially the song where all the 31 stars perform is a treat to watch for. The story and direction by Farah Khan is very good.

Performance wise the film belongs to King Khan Shah Rukh Khan all the way. New girl Deepika Podukone is the next superstar. It did not seem at all that she is a new actress and this is her First Film. Arjun Rampal was awesome in the negative role. Kirron Kher was really good once again. Shreyas Talpade was again very good. He gets an equal footage with Shah Rukh to perform.

For those who go for Artistic Cinema, This film is strictly not for them. But those who need Full Time Pass, Om Shanti Om is the real good choice. Here the Film Maker is trying to fool you, But in return they are offering you a Glossy Dream of 2 hours. So if you are looking for a Roller Coaster ride of Entertainment, Go for Om Shanti Om!

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4 star out of 5 Star.

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