Om Shanti Om


At times you come across something so ridiculous that you actually don’t seem to mind it! Why? Because you still manage to feel entertained.

OSO is a typical masala movie – made for the masses. It’s got song, dance, humour, atrocious humour, predictable humour and humour for the sake of humour.

You might actually slam your head against a wall during the fight sequence between the stuffed tiger and Shahrukh Khan. ‘Pussy cat, Pussy cat where have you been? Have you been to London, to see the queen?’

Then it has heart-break, a main-tuhaari-bachche-ki-ma-banne-waali-hoon dialogue, crying in the rain, fighting in the fire, murder and mind you…all this before the interval!

What follows is stupidity forcibly mixed with glamour. The King Khan shows off his newly acquired six-packs in an item number. A masaale-daar Filmfare sequence follows where Farah and SRK prove their PR skills and manage to squeeze in 30+ stars for a few minutes.

After this starts the revenge phase which culminates in a ghostly climax!

Performance wise – Shreyas Talpade is fine, Kiron Kher does her filmy bit, Deepika is plain lucky get such a big banner launch – she’s pretty ordinary and any tall decently looking model could have sufficed for this role. Arjun Rampal looks good and performs pretty decently for his short part.

Shahrukh is OK (Lol! Pun intended). Well the movie is all about SRK and he manages to get the message across to the one and all. The movie is worth a dekho for the sheer stupidity and entertainment factor and also that all your friends and colleagues are going to be talking about it – so why miss out on a couple of conversations?

Here’s a video of the making of the song Deewanagi (Om Shanti Om title track):