Om Shanti Om Review

Om Shanti Om. When you say this word, is there anything else ringing your bells. Well let me help you out. Its the song in Karz (starring Rishi Kapoor and Tina munim i suppose), its the proverb that Sadhu-sant used to say umteenth times in mythological movies, its the word that you say after you finish up your daily prayer routine and blah bla.

Came November 6th 2007 and the only meaning this term has got is "hey its the Farah Khan movie with mindblowing Shahrukh abs". I say what the crap. People have gone crazy, girls who stopped loving Shahrukh have started loving him all over again and guys who hated him for some reasons started hating him more because Shahrukh deliberately doing the same thing over and over again adding to these guys' ruthless distaste in him.

Coming to the movie again, following is the summary of who-is-doing-what:
Movie: Om Shanti Om
Release Date: 6th November 2007
Director: Farah Khan
Genre: Drama/Romance/Drama and more pathetic drama
Tagline: He was a junior artiste. She was a star. For some dreams, one lifetime is not enough.
Cast and Crew:
Shahrukh Khan as Om Prakash Makhija and Om Kapoor
Deepika as Shanti and Sandy
Arjun Rampal as Mukesh Mehra
Shreyash Talpade as Pappu Master
Rani Mukherjee, Zayed Khan, Vidya Balan, Juhi Chawla, Priyanka Chopra, Shilpa Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora, Salmaan Khan, Amrita Arora, Kajol, Mithunda, Ritesh Deshmukh, Saif Ali Khan, Dharmendra, Lara Dutta, Sunil Shetty, Rekha and many more. The list is just unending.

The reason for writing a review for this particular movie is neither that I liked nor that I hated it but I just wanted to put something down on paper regarding the fact that what a jerk am I to listen to what people say and waste 3 precious hours of my life which I will never get back again. But anyways, let me try not to be biased and jot down what I truly feel.

The plot starts with the copied Karz song in 1970s or something when Subhash Ghai's movie was being shot and Om Prakash (Shk) was a junior artist in it standing in the audience and clapping. This fella has got ambitions to be a superstar someday or the other and recieve an award for being the best actor. He meets the well established actress Shanti (Deepika) and tries everything to win her heart. But this poor lad's heart gets broken when he gets to know that Shanti is already married and was about to have an illegal child of the then famous producer Mukesh (Arjun). The drama begins there and its was a non stop till the end. Woh kehte hain naa "Jab tak film ka ending sukhad nahin hota tab samajh lena ki filam khatam nahin hui hai" - crappy dialogues....eeeak!!

There is a song from the movie which is hitting the top list in the music world and i dont know how and why. Its Dard-e-disco. I never liked it and i guess will not be liking it in future. But there is one song which i liked the most among all the worst songs in it - Dhoom tana. It has got old movie style sets and the song has also got lyrics and music similar to 1970s. Nice one but not that much good that you gonna remember it for more than a month. Coming back to Dard-e-disco, there is a hype about it because Shahrukh has shown his 6-pack abs in it. The crazy world and i dont know why people start doping just because of money. God save them and their future old age.

Speaking of dialogues, you must have noticed innumerable number of times how much overacting shahrukh khan does. Here he proves it again and gets rid of this fact and acts even more jerkily with too much overacting to get digested by a common man. I dont blame him though. People mostly his fans specifically the girl fans want him to overact and so he does. Go and watch the movie if you really want some overdose of overactings by him and his lead actress.

Rating: 3 out of 10 (-3 for making it a horror movie which i dont like at all, -2 for the genuine overactings, -1 for the crappy songs which you would certainly skip if you are watching on a dvd or computer and -1 for a stealing the concept of Karz with few changes)
Feedback: It just so and so movie.
Advice: Can be watchable but you need to have full stock of popcorns and soft drinks with you so that you can have some good time eating it if you ever get bored by the dialogues
Lessons Learnt: Never ever believe what people say and waste your time. Go for what your heart says. Just because Farah has good contacts with athe film industry and she can make all of them come to the stage in one single song, doesnt make a movie hit. Main Hoon Naa sucked and so does this second try at making a movie. People should stick to what they are best at. She is good at choreography, not movie making or even directing one of them.

Oh, did I mention that Deepika is a real hottie!! You can well watch it for her if at all you hate Shahrukh Khan. I did watch it only because of this reason.