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Om Shanti Om - 2007

Super Star Rajesh Khanna appearing through graphics in Om Shanti Om - 2007




Introduction :

Om Shanti Om is a Bollywood musical film directed and choreographed by Farah Khan. It stars Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles while Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade, and Kirron Kher feature in supporting roles. More than forty-two well-known Bollywood stars appear in the course of the film, including thirty of them (not including the stars of the film) in one song alone. The film is set in the 1970s and 2000s; it pays tribute to, and pokes fun at the, Indian film industry of both these eras.

It is inspired by Rishi Kapoor's 1980 Bollywood film Karz and borrows many elements from it, including the title of the film which is named after one of the songs "Om Shanti Om". Also for a brief moment Rishi Kapoor can be seen dancing to the original song.

"Dhoom Taana" - By Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Shreya Ghoshal (Super Star Rajesh Khanna appeared through Graphics in this song)


Summary :


Om Prakash Makhija is a junior artiste in the 1970s Bollywood film industry. He and his friend Pappu are trying to succeed as leading actors. Om's mother, Bela Makhija, herself a junior artiste, inspires and encourages her son to succeed. He is in love with film actress Shanti Priya. One evening, Om views the premiere of Shanti's film Dreamy Girl, posing as Manoj Kumar. Later that night, Om becomes drunk and describes his vision of himself as a famous, wealthy film star to Pappu and some local children.

While shooting of a film wherein Om is acting as a scene-extra, he notices Shanti trapped in the middle of a fire scene where the fire has escaped control. He saves her and they become friends. One day, he accidentally overhears the conversation between Shanti and Mukesh Mehra, a film producer. Om is brutally shocked to learn that Mukesh and Shanti had married secretly and that Shanti is about to have his baby. Mehra promises to do something.

One night, Om notices Mukesh escorting Shanti to the set of their soon-to-be-made film Om Shanti Om. Inside, Mukesh tells Shanti that he will cancel the film, reveal their marriage to the public, and have a grand wedding on the spectacular set. Shanti is pleased, while Om returns back, happy for her. However, now it is revealed that Mukesh has no intentions of fulfilling his promise. He traps Shanti on the set and sets it on fire.

Om sees the studio burning and attempts to rescue Shanti, but Mukesh's guards attack him, and he is badly injured. Om pursues despite this, and enters the burning building. He sees Shanti and runs towards her, but and explosion blasts him outside the building. Om is hit by a car owned by Rajesh Kapoor, a well-known actor who is taking his wife to the hospital as she is in labour. Rajesh takes Om too, but Om succumbs to his injuries in the hospital itself and dies. Moments later, a son is born to Lovely and Rajesh, who is named Om, and implied to be Om Prakash's reincarnation.

The film then cuts to Om Kapoor's adulthood. Nicknamed O.K., he is a popular movie star and lives an extravagant, luxurious life that Om Prakash dreamt of. He experiences pyrophobia and it is shown through some scenes that he subconsciously inherits Om Prakash's memories, as well as his appearence. When making a speech of acceptance for an award, O.K. unexpectedly recalls the drunken speech that Om Prakash had made to Pappu, and delivers the same to the assembly who have awarded him.

Pappu listens O.K.'s speech on television and is convinced that his friend has returned. At a celebration of his award, O.K. is introduced by his father to Mukesh Mehra, who has been producing films in Hollywood for the last twenty five years. Upon seeing him, O.K. recalls everything. He later reunites with Bela and Pappu and conspires to avenge Shanti's death by making Mukesh confess his sin. O.K. convinces Mukesh to restart shooting of Om Shanti Om.

Pappu and O.K. start a hunt for a girl who can pass of as Shanti. The plan is to convince Mukesh that Shanti is haunting the set and scare him, so that he will confess. O.K. finds Sandhya aka Sandy, a complete doppelganger of Shanti. Sandy is accordingly trained and the plan is finally put into action. Throughout the film shooting, O.K. and his friends arrange incidents to remind Mukesh of his crime, mostly by giving him startling glimpses of Sandy.

However, Mukesh decides to go back to Hollywood. Realizing that Mukesh might try to make a run for it, O.K. tells him that the music launch is going to take place that night. Mukesh reluctantly stays, while O.K. has to make it look real to Mukesh. However, O.K.'s plan hits a snag when Mukesh examines the film reels and notices that something is wrong. During the music launch of the film, O.K. taunts Mukesh by revealing, through a song, the extent to which he knows the story of Shanti's death. Mukesh sees Sandy again, but this time he pursues her.

Sandy bleeds after being scratched, thus confirming Mukesh's suspicions that she was not Shanti's ghost. Just as Mukesh is about to walk out, the chandelier nearly collapses on him. After some time, it is revealed that the chandelier didn't fall down fully. O.K. and Mukesh confront each other with their knowledge of each other's actions. An emboldened Mukesh tells O.K. that the charade is over. Mukesh also tells him that to prove that Shanti was murdered, her dead body has to be recovered.

Here, Pappu who is listening the conversation from the studio, tries to run to the set, but gets stuck in the studio itself. Meanwhile, O.K. sees Sandy making an entrance on the stage and confronting Mukesh. O.K. tries to stop her, but she seemed to ignore him, revealing that Mukesh came back after the fire extinguished naturally that night. She also tells him that she was still alive when he found her, and buried her in the studio right under where the chandelier is facing now. Mukesh realizes that only Shanti could have known this and attacks her in panic.

O.K. enters in a scuffle with him, resulting in a fire on the studio. O.K. somehow fights his pyrophobia and shoots Mukesh in his leg. Just as he is about to kill Mukesh, Sandy stops him. She tells him that Mukesh will pay, but not through his hands. She looks at the chandelier, dangling precariously. The chandelier falls on Mukesh, killing him instantly. After looking at Sandy with confusion, the studio door opens forcefully. O.K. looks back to see Pappu, and Sandy.

O.K. finally recognizes that the figure who challenged Mukesh is actually the real Shanti Priya's ghost. This also explains some supernatural incidents that O.K. and his friends had not set up. O.K. raises his hand to wave at the love of his past life; among the flames, Shanti smiles at him, with a tear at her eye. Sandy then goes to Om, apologizing she didn't come to scare Mukesh. While Om hugs Sandy he looks at Shanti who goes up the stairs and disappears into the light and is gone forever. The ends credits come up as a film premiere.


Star Cast :


Shahrukh Khan as Om Prakash Makhija / Om Kapoor
Deepika Padukone as Shanti Priya / Sandy
Arjun Rampal as Mukesh Mehra "Mike"
Shreyas Talpade as Pappu Master
Kirron Kher as Bela Makhija
Javed Sheikh as Rajesh Kapoor
Asawari Joshi as Lovely Kapoor
Yuvika Chaudhary as Dolly
Bindu Desai as Kamini
Satish Shah as Film Director
Shawar Ali as Shawar

Special appearances during the song "Deewangi Deewangi" (in order of appearance)

Rani Mukerji
Zayed Khan
Vidya Balan
Jeetendra
Tusshar Kapoor
Priyanka Chopra
Shilpa Shetty
Dharmendra
Shabana Azmi
Urmila Matondkar
Karisma Kapoor
Arbaaz Khan
Malaika Arora
Dino Morea
Amrita Arora
Juhi Chawla
Aftab Shivdasani
Tabu
Govinda
Mithun Chakraborty
Kajol
Preity Zinta
Bobby Deol
Rekha
Ritesh Deshmukh
Salman Khan
Saif Ali Khan
Sanjay Dutt
Lara Dutta
Sunil Shetty



Cameo appearances in the film (in alphabetical order)

Super Star Rajesh Khanna, Jeetendra & Sunil Dutt appearing through graphics in a song.
Abhishek Bachchan as himself
Akshay Kumar as himself
Amisha Patel as Om Kapoor's heroine at Filmfare Awards
Amitabh Bachchan as himself
Arshad Warsi as himself
Bappi Lahiri as himself
Bipasha Basu as herself
Chunkey Pandey as himself
Dhananjay Singh as himself
Dia Mirza as Om Kapoor's heroine at Filmfare Awards.
Farah Khan in the opening of the film.
Feroz Khan as himself
Gauri Khan as herself
Hrithik Roshan as himself
Karan Johar as himself
Koena Mitra as herself
Mayur Puri as the Gujarati director of Apahij Pyar.
Rakesh Roshan as himself
Rishi Kapoor as himself
Shabana Azmi as herself
Subhash Ghai as himself
Vishal Dadlani as the director of Mohabbat Man, a superhero film.
V. Manikandan as the director of Mind It, a parody of action films.
Yash Chopra as himself


Film Crew's :


Directed by Farah Khan
Produced by Gauri Khan
Written by Farah Khan,Mayur Puri & Mushtaq Sheikh
Music by Vishal Shekhar
Background Score by Sandeep Chowta
Cinematography by V. Manikandan
Editing by Shirish Kunder
Distributed by Red Chillies Entertainment
Release date 9 November 2007
Country India
Language Hindi


Music Soundtracks :


The film's songs were composed by the musical duo Vishal Shekhar with lyrics by Javed Akhtar, whilst the background score was composed by Sandeep Chowta. Initially, A. R. Rahman was signed in to compose original songs and background score for the film. But the maestro opted out of this movie, as T-Series did not agree to share the copyrights of music with him and the lyricist. The soundtrack for the film released on 18 September 2007.

S.No. Song Title Singer(s)

1) "Ajab Si" - By KK
2) "Dard-e-Disco" - By Sukhwinder Singh, Caralisa Monteiro & Nisha, Marianne
3) "Deewangi Deewangi" - By Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan & Rahul
Saxena
4) "Main Agar Kahoon" - By Sonu Nigam & Shreya Ghoshal
5) "Jag Soona Soona Lage" - By Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Richa Sharma
6) "Dhoom Taana" - By Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Shreya Ghoshal (Super Star Rajesh Khanna
appeared through Graphics in this song)
7) "Dastaan-E-Om Shanti Om" - By Shaan
8) "Dard-e-Disco (Remix)" - Sukhwinder Singh, Caralisa Monteiro & Nisha, Marianne
9) "Deewangi Deewangi (Rainbow Mix)" - By Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan &
Rahul Saxena
10) "Om Shanti Om (Medley Mix)" - By Sukhwinder Singh, Caralisa Monteiro, Nisha,
Marianne, Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahul Saxena,
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
11) "Dastaan-E-Om Shanti Om (Dark Mix)" - By Shaan
12) "Om Shanti Om (Instrumental)"



Video Songs & Lyrics :

6) Song Title : Dhoom Taana

http://youtu.be/TjUXr560Gu0
Singer (s) : Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Shreya Ghoshal
Lyricst : Javed Akhtar
Music Director : Vishal Shekhar
Song picturised on Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and through graphics on Sunil Dutt,
Jeetendra & Super Star Rajesh Khanna.


Lyrics :


Kaise naino se naian milaon sajna
Kaise mein aise na ghabrau sajna
Kaise aaye aise mohe laaj sajna
Chuna na mujhe aaj sajna

Mriganaini tu na jane
Prem kitna mere maan mein hai
Yeh bechaini mangti hai
Roop Jo tere yowan mein hai

Tere phool sa hai ang
Tere ang mein hai bhang
Tere bhang ke mein sang goriye

Tere rang mein hai roop
Tere roop mein hai dhoop
Teri dhoop hai anoop goriye
Sajna se kahe aaye laaj sajani
choone de ang mohe aaj sajani

Thaki thaki si phirthi hoon
Tharki tharki girti hoon
jispe yeh mera koi jam hai jaise
Nazar milati hoon khwaabon mein saama jaati hoon
Dil mein bas jana mera kaam hai jaise
Dil mein bas ja mene roka kab hai
Lekin kya armaan hai mera yeh to samjhane de

Sajna se kahe aaye laaj sajani
choone de ang mohe aaj sajani

Kaise anjana maan ki baat mein aaye
Kaise ek raaja ko manmeet banaye
Kaise pehnu mein pyaar ka yeh aag sajna
Karti hoon tumhi dil pe raj

Mriganaini tu na jane
Prem kitna mere maan mein hai
Yeh bechaini mangti hai
Roop Jo tere yowan mein hai


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