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Shanti Om is the story of Om [Shah Rukh Khan] and Shanti
[Deepika Padukone]. Om is a junior artist in the 70s. Shanti
is the Bollywood queen of that era. He is her biggest fan
and is in love with her. Om dreams of being a superstar, but
an incident changes his life forever.
Om dies in a mishap, but is reborn into the present day.
What follows is an interesting tale.
 Farah
has done better than her first film Main Hoon Na but she could
have done without drawing caricatures of some yesteryear actors
in the film. Vishal-Shekhar’s music is pretty good and Farah’s
choreography makes it all the more enticing. Dard-e-disco
is my personal favourite too.
 V.
Manikanandan’s cinematography captures the glamour and opulence
of the movie quite well. The sets [Sabu Cyril] deserve a mention
too. Dialogues [Mayur Puri] are witty and tongue-in-cheek.
Background score [Sandeep Chowta] is wow!
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Chak De, Shahrukh is back in the melodrama book with Om Shanti
Om. He is the best part of the film. Deepika, being a newcomer,
does justice to the film too. She is fresh, elegant and a
good change in place of the other heroines we are so used
to seeing Shahrukh with. Arjun Rampal has once got a good
role to boast of and Shreyas Talpade compliments Shah Rukh
Khan wonderfully. Kirron Kher plays the over dramatic mom
of the 70s with aplomb.
On the whole, OM SHANTI OM is what they call a commercial
film at its best.
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