Om Shanti Om - Review

One ticket and maximum fun; how is the deal? Well deal is on and named Om Shanti Om for you. A Diwali bumper offer from the house of King Khan and of course Farah Khan.

To start with the story it’s more or less reincarnation of Karz by Subhash Ghai, so those who watch it thinking a new stream can stop thinking the same, although the treatment is much advanced and grand with consistent twists and turns. First half deals with successful recreating Era of Golden seventies where one in million Om runs behind and saves life of his “Dreamy Girl” Shanti who happens to be the raining superstar then. But when it comes to the happy ending of their saga, life takes a twist and an unfortunate event takes life of both Om and Shanti (I don’t want to spoil the suspense plot here).

While the second half starts with the current time, Om Kapoor who is raining superstar now is a star son of seventies superstar Rajesh Kapoor who was in a way involved in the story of first part. With some twist and turns in the story, Om recalls his past life that he is a rebirth of Om and he is on a mission to accomplish the left task from his past life with the help of Sandy (Sandhya) who apparently is his biggest fan. That’s the end of story.

Kudos to Farah Khan that she was so right in making this film by including all the ingredients in the movie; be it comedy, romance, emotion, drama or suspense. Movie is to its entire stretch a treat to watch. Music background was also very nice by Vishal and Shekar; each song comes with the requirement not as if they are padded just to feel the time; lyrics make them even more soothing while listening. Sets that recreate the seventies Era are fabulous and makes scenic pleasure entire movie. From the cast SRK rocks undoubtedly, I must say I liked this one the most of his entire performances till date. He had a tough task this time to match with a young girl Deepika as a pair and didn’t both look stunning together, just picture perfect. I can write ten pages praising SRK for his show this time but let’s get on to others. Kirron Kher is remarkable in her performance, the scene between him and SRK in second half would bring tears to your eyes. Shreyas was as good as he could, he and SRK were brilliant together almost every where in movie. Pick of the movie is Arjun Rampal, be sure to get surprised with the role he is playing in the movie; he steals the show when ever he comes on the frame. Now comes my favorite part: Deepika!! I wish the dialog SRK says “Jub kisi ko dil se chhaho to sari kayanat use aapse milane ke liye aa jati hai” come true for me. She is a Diva, no more Katrina for me now; it’s all Deepika from now onwards. Watch out her in forthcoming ventures, this time other than her mesmerizing smile she had very little to do in front of the big shots in the movie.

I highly recommend this one to everyone; go out and have healthy fun.