Om Shanti Om (2 DVD Collector's Pack)

Amazing movie! All I can say is that it is emotion-packed and has dramedy and tragedy. It made cry and made me laugh. The movie is set in the 1970s and the 2000s. The story revolves around a Junior Artist at RC Studioos, Om Prakash Makhija (Shah Rukh Khan), who is madly in love with a huge superstar, Shantipriya aka Shanti (Deepika Padukone). We learn that he has a hard time getting roles for films and usually when he complains about them, his mom reacts over-dramatically. He talks to Shantipriya's poster (Dreamy Girl) and usually goes there to tell her how much he loves her. One day, they attend her premiere, and his sleeve gets stuck on one of the pieces of her pallu. After that, they are drunk on the street and Om is imagining his fantasy of him winning the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. The day after, he is shooting for one of films as a villager, which is being directed by Partho Roy and being produced by Mukesh Mehra. Shanti is also at the same set. The scene is that there is a fire in the plains. The hero refuses to go and rescue Shanti, because he thinks that the fire is too hot. Instead, Om rescues her, and they become friends. Om tries to Woo her. A few days after, he sneaks into an RC Studios backdrop. He overhears an argument with Shanti and Mukesh. They are fighting about the fact that he is getting married. She then reveals that they have been secretly married for two years and that she is pregnant with Mukesh's child. Mukesh is overjoyed, while Om leaves, heartbroken. He remains miserable for a few days. One day, He sneaks into the set that Mukesh has for an upcoming film, also named Om Shanti Om. He tells Shanti that he will demolish the set, but before that, they will have a grand wedding on the set. Om, unable tohear anymore, quietly leaves. The story takes a dark turn when Mukesh blames Shanti for the demolition of the set, saying that her baby will ruin his career and that she will. He lights the set on fire and locks Shanti inside of it. Om sees Mukesh leaving the set while Shanti is desperately crying out for help. He rushes to try and save her, but Mukesh's guards severely beat him up. After the beating, he still tries to save her again, but is thrown out of the set by an explosion. He gets thrown onto a nearby street, and the set fully explodes; he assumes that Shanti is dead. Then, Rajesh Kapoor (Javed Shaikh) car hits a disoriented Om and he is taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, he dies due to his injuries. 30 YEARS LATER Om is now reincarnated as a superstar

I am So glad I didn't pay attention to the bad reviews some people gave here of this movie. I know everyone has different views and tastes and I respect that but I think some people do dot recognize a great film when they see it. This movie deserved a round of applause or something. I wish there were more movies like this one. All I can say is 'WOW' this has to be one of SRK's best films! Great DVD. I loved the story. The acting. The music. A must see film. I have nothing negative to say about it. I just don't know why it took me so long to watch it. Shahrukh Khan is truly amazing. Such a brilliant actor. Such an entertaining film. It had everything from romance to intrigue, comedy to tragedy, music and dancing. It made me laugh and it made me cry.

I love Bollywood films in general, but this one - Om Shanti Om - enriches the usual content of drama and dance with a tongue in cheek parody of movies and movie-making, with Bollywood and Shah Rukh Khan bearing most of the brunt of the wit. The plot is a clever two-parter, in which our hero, Om, a low-level bit player in the first half, dies and is reborn into the second as a mega star. Director/writer/choreographer Farah Khan has crafted a satisfying web of love and loss, murder and justice, death and rebirth, laced through with film cliches. And who but Shah Rukh Khan could carry off delivering a line like, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," to a male co-star (the villain of the piece, Arjun Rampal)? Shah Rukh's characterizations are superb, from overacting the drunken acceptance of an imitation award in the first part to portraying a self-centered superstar in the second, who alternates constantly grabbing his own crotch with insisting on a dance number in a film, although the wheelchair-bound character he's playing is deaf, dumb and blind, and has lost both hands and feet. The resulting Darde Disco number pushes music video cliches to their extreme. There are fires and a falling chandelier a la Phantom of the Opera, and an award show at which the superstar Om is nominated for two best actor awards for playing exactly the same part in two different movies - only his co-star and the color of his sweater change in the clips. Even motherhood comes into the mix, with Kiron Kher giving a fantastic performance as Om's first-part mother; their reunion in the second half brings tears to the eyes! Shreyas Talpade does well as Om's friend, and Deepika Padukone is amazing as graceful tragic heroine Shanti in the first part and clumsy star-struck Sandy in the second, popping bubble gum and fainting every time Shah Rukh comes close to her. An array of stars too numerous to list have cameo appearances in a second part party dance number that crescendos to a confrontation between the suddenly-aware Om and Mukesh, the man who murdered Shanti in the first part. All in all, this is an immensely enjoyable film to watch and I recommend it highly.

Enough has been said in previous reviews about the production value, cast (dozens of big names), sets, music. I have only this to add: Om Shanti Om deserves every unkind thing said by negative reviewers. And yet... How does it manage to be so good? It's campy and overblown, makes fun of everything and everyone, seems willing at every turn to sacrifice narrative quality for melodrama or snide cultural satire, prefers parody of Hindi-film stereotypes to originality, and should barely be able to limp along on its awkward, strained, artificial, self-conscious, and utterly predictable plot. Yet somehow it manages to be endearing and entrancing; it's complete cheese, but cheese of the very finest quality. How? By doing all of that really, really WELL. So well that you can take all that in and be amused by it while still retaining suspension of disbelief and just enjoying the flow of the film. Examples: The English subtitles translate one song (as the hero weeps after terrible and shocking news) as "A dream when destroyed / Makes your world a void / Your life is not yours any more / Your life is a barren core..." -- but the music is dreamlike, seeming to pulse and spiral, perfectly capturing the stunned state of the newly heartbroken, as good an aural portrayal of the character's pain as SRK's kicked-puppy-dog face and soulful eyes provides for the visual. Although in the movie the intent to parody Bollywood's overblown tragedic moments is clear, the song stands on its own as good music; it's found its way as an MP3 into several playlists and always makes me stop to listen. Likewise, "Dard E Disco", "The Pain of Disco" has such a ridiculous introductory setup that I expected to fast-forward through it in disgust: a film hero and director are discussing what a certain scene is lacking, and the egotistical actor announces that he will save the movie from certain disaster ("You are dead, man, dead! Unless I think of something, as usual.") by recommending just the right musical number ("to express all this pain"). After a little brainstorming ("A sad item, maybe a trance number... No, a sad rock-n-roll. [waves the idea away] Done to death!") he settles on "a painful... DISCO!" Well, yes, I agree... I do find most disco music pretty inherently painful. "Dard E Disco", however, is catchy and, again, an enjoyable song in its own right, even as it seems to parody stereotyped rhythms and melodies Westerners recognize as "Indian". The scene leading up to this is fairly representative of the over-the-top parody. The director is explaining the scene to the actor, who is only half-listening while talking to a girl on his bluetooth earpiece. Director: Sir, as you see sir, this is the climax scene where heroine Natasha is getting married to -- (dramatic chords) villain Ranbir! ...Sir Raj, that's you, his heart is breaking. He wants to tell the heroine that 'Natasha I really love you!' but he can't say it! Actor: (laughing) Why? Am I mute? Director: Correct sir! You remember your mother's death scene? Actor: Now there is a mother also? Director: Sir, sir, in mother's death scene, you scream so loudly that you lose your voice. Now, for the last time, you want to look at Natasha... but sir, you can't even do that! Actor: Why? Why? Director: Because you are blind as well sir! Actor: Oh, I am blind also! I see. Director: No sir, you don't! Actor: I don't! Director: Sir, music starts in the background! You leave the foreground! Natasha turns to look at you and -- Actor: Whoa, whoa, whoa! One second, Natasha turns to look at me, but Natasha is blind! Director: No sir, you are blind. Actor: But I was mute! Director: Sir you are mute AND blind, and when Natasha calls out to you saying, 'Don't go, Raj!' you don't stop sir, because in the film you are deaf as well! ...it goes on like that for a bit, putting the hero in a wheelchair and cutting off both his hands also, before setting up the big dance number. It reads like a bad Abbott and Costello ripoff, but somehow it manages to play out smooth and droll. Timing, pacing, chemistry, good direction and good acting... something saved this film and made it wonderful; it deserves all the kind things said by positive reviewers, too. Maybe it really needed that sad disco number, after all.

I loved this movie (even though most of the in-joke references to earlier Bollywood filmstars went over my head) because there was still more than enough fun to be had in this 2 hour and 42 minute film. Bollywood definitely gives you your moneys worth and more. It manages to give us a story filled with love, laughter, karmic revenge, and some really wonderful, eye-popping song and dance numbers with tunes so catchy that I'll probably be singing them for the next two weeks. This review is full of major spoliers although the film's ending isn't revealed. Shah Rukh Khan stars a love struck bit player with the unfortunate name of Om Prakash Makhija in the Bollywood of the 1970s who's desperately in love with gorgeous megastar Shanti(Deepika Padukone) and he frequently converses with a giant billboard of her, completely oblivious to the stares of passers-by. One day Om and his brother have the good fortune to be cast as extras in a film in which Shanti is starring and it seems as if fate has brought them together. For quite awhile it does seem as if Shanti will fall for the charming Om, especially after he resecues her from an on-set fire. But alas, Om over hears Shanti telling her director Muhkesh Mehra(with whom she is secretly in love) a terrible secret that will make their love impossible. When faced with leaving his wife and marrying her as he has promised, the director (played by Arjun Rampal)does what most men would do--traps her in one of the extravagant sets in which they are filming and lights it ablaze. This time there's no escape from the fire for Shanti, or for Om who dies attempting to rescue her again. We go immediately from a sheet being pulled over Om's body in the hospital to the new and improved reincarnated Om 30 years old and still played by SRK. He's the person our deceased Om had always dreamed of being, a famous actor with a great name-- Om Kapoor! His life comes complete with round bed, velvet slippers, and servents at his beck and call. When we first meet him he's waking up in the middle of the afternoon to go to work at the film studio--surrounded by screaming fans (who can't help observing "He's so much shorter in real life"), fawning studio executives, and a frantic director who's trying to film a really weird scirpt. That scene leads into the film's BEST dance number to a song called "Dard-e-Disco" which I've since learned is a parody of a number by Hrithik Roshan, one of Bollywood's number one studs. Roshan and his father also have a cameo as themselves in this flick. I doubt that he knew he would be parodied at the time. I had no idea he was a paroding anyone in particular but by the time SRK got to to the part where he was shirtless and dancing provocatively while wearing a hardhat and a toolbelt with a rope slung over one shoulder and singing "My heart is filled with the pain of disco," I was laughing in spite of the fact that SRK looked really hot. You can always count on Bollywood for a little comedy. But it's during the "Pain of Disco" number that Om Kapoor first begins to remember his past life as Om Makhija. Later at the Filmfare Awards (which feature hilarious send-ups of other stars' images) Om's memory clears even more, and when he spots the director who had killed both 30 years ago Om remembers everything and begins to plan his revenge. GUARANTEED END OF SPOILERS. OM SHANTI OM is a throwback to the films of the 1970s for its entire first half, which is to say it shows both the worst of the decade's fashion trends and the best of Bollywood's over indulgent opulence. The sets and costumes are magnificent beyond imagining and damn near knocked my eyes out. There are 7 or 8 musical numbers in this film, with the standouts for me being the "Pain of Disco", and "Deewangi Deewangi" with the lyrics "All the cool boys come and make some noise, sing Om Shanti Om". It's also a good practice for seeing how many Bollywood stars you can name since it's sung at Om's party as an entrance number for all the guests (who are playing themselves) as they arrive. I'm not very good but I was able to identify 6, maybe 7. Still it's an exuberant, catchy tune that will drive you out of your mind. If you've never seen a Bollywood film this might be a good place to start even if its most subtle parts will be lost on you as they were on me. Be sure to watch the end credits where almost everyone connected with the film gets to dance down the red carpet.

I had no prior knowledge about this film before seeing it, other than I knew Shah Rukh Khan was in it. So, the impact of the film was probably more powerful than if I had been told things ahead of time. The part that REALLY blew me away was seeing Shah Rukh Khan without his shirt buttoned up. I wasn't expecting that. I can recognize and appreciate when a man is especially handsome. But, I'm the type of girl who has always been more impressed by the character of the man, not just his looks. I had seen MANY of Shah Rukh Khan's films before seeing this one. And I already completely loved him - because of who he is and how he is. He is very handsome to me with his shirt buttoned up. Seeing him with his shirt unbuttoned took me by complete surprise and took my breath away!!! Other things I like about this film...I love the story, the music and dancing, and it was especially fun to see the guest appearances of other famous actors. This film is at the top of my list of great Shah Rukh Khan films!!!

All you cool boys, come and make some noise,and say "Oh Shanti Om!" I am so glad I listened to the reviews here. I wanted to see more Bollywood after seeing a "Bollywood"-style number in "So You Think You Can Dance," and Bollywood-fusion films like "The Guru" (NOT the Mike Myers film "The Love Guru" - I mean the GOOD one, with Jimi Mistry and Heather Graham) and "Bride and Prejudice." This film is wonderful. The dancing, the energy, and the comedy have a touch of the goofiness that make musicals like "Singing in the Rain" so much fun (and like that musical, this one is also set in the world of movie-making). And though there is a dramatic side to the story, the story never drags; for a 142-minute film, that's saying something. It is definitely a fun movie. The musical/dance numbers are dizzy fun, the hero is likable, and the actress who plays our heroine is a knockout (both in beauty and in talent. My God, these Bollywood heroines are gorgeous women). Even the credits are a hoot, as everyone from the director to the carpenters take bows at the end. Please see it, lest your heart know the Pain of disco.

I feel lucky to stumble on this movie while desperately searching for anything different to watch. I am a huge movie fan and very happy that amazon made this available for us since at this moment netflix is only offering with dvd option. Of course, reaching to Bollywood movies is a bit problematic since I am not Indian and do not speak Hindi and cannot make sense of them unless there is a subtitle. They should be more accessible for the rest of the world : ) I found this movie very entertaining, heart warming, and encouraging (to follow one's dreams). It is funny at times and a little bit satiric (of older film industry in India). Picture quality, costumes, rich colors, dances -not over done and cheesier with a purpose- all comes together beautifully. It does not give the impression of a redo of a particular Hollywood movie but I kept thinking about the chandelier scene from the Phantom of Opera. However, overall, it seems like they owned every aspect of the plot, which includes reincarnation of the main character to give very simple and sweet messages such as: If you want something in life with all your heart, the universe will help you to obtain it. Nobody gets away with a bad deed. I do not think this movie is based on Shah Rukh Khan's struggle in his journey to stardom in real life, however, Om's different lives pokes fun at unfairness of life or old Bollywood film industry specifically where having certain connections makes life easier even for a lazy/untalented/stupid/spoiled person. I like this aspect of new trend in the Bollywood movies: They are getting more complicated and more universal while they are not giving up their traditional themes or some of the old Bollywood movie signatures. Of course, it is always fun to watch Shah Rukh Khan dancing in traditional or semi-traditional Indian outfits, trying to do the right thing (not much fan of him when he is a villain), following his heart, serenading his lover, being such an Indian gentleman, etc.

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I'm a white London guy (just saying that so you can see how all types of folk will enjoy this movie) and, although I have watched a few Bollywood films just for fun, this one is absolutely THE BEST ! It's BRILLIANT !! Yes, of course, you have to completely suspend any sort of belief right from the start and accept that it's a kind of fairytale. There will be some folk who just won't ever "get it" but, if you DO, then it's a treat. Shah Rukh Khan (Om) is completely winsome in this role, which is so suited for him & his talents. He is excellent at over-the-top comedy, sings well, can dance, looks good (he worked-out in a gym for 3 months to get that body for his reincarnation "Pain of Disco" number) and is truly a Star. Deepika Padukone (Shanti) is absolutely beautiful .... my God ! Yes, ok, there are flaws.... yes... ok.. how did he get in the building just by smashing a small pane of glass? ... blah...blah... forget it... just enjoy the drama of it all ! Farah Khan did an excellent job with her movie (I like the in-joke cameo appearance by her, with SRK, at the start!) The 1st half is very funny & takes the piss out of the 1970s Bollywood films, but it's also quite touching. I love all the banter between him & his brother, and his romantic song with Shanti. But the 2nd half really shows what Shah can do. The scene when he gets reunited with his Mother & brother is truly tear-jerking, but the scene is played honestly & tenderly, with no melodrama. The final shot of Shah at the end as he sees his Shanti for the last time is great stuff .... real emotion, torment & pathos showing in his face and, when Shanti turns, smiles & sheds a tear, it's a wonderful moment. Aaaaah! I just happened to watch it when it was shown the other weekend on Channel 4. I immediately bought the DVD & then watched it 8 times in 2 weeks. Am really surprised to like this movie as much as I do, but I find something extra in it everytime I watch it. The music numbers are just great ! Sing along now .... "All hot girls wave your hands in the air. Om Shanti Om. All cool guys c'mon make some noise. Om Shanti Om". !! Take the plunge & buy it. Accept it. Enjoy it. Love it.

Shipment from seller was fast. We really enjoyed this movie, the acting and singing superb and the plot line was also interesting.

I really like this movie. I've probably seen it a dozen times already and it never fails to make me laugh and cry at the same time. It's a movie that you shouldn't miss!