Om Shanti Om is a 2007 Bollywood film directed and choreographed by Farah Khan. It stars Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles as the protagonists while Shreyas Talpade, Arjun Rampal, and Kirron Kher feature in supporting roles. Arjun Rampal is the antagonist in the movie. More than forty two well-known Bollywood stars appear in the course of the film, including thirty of them (not including the stars of the film) in one song alone.
Production
As featured in the film: Shahrukh Khan, whom Farah Khan had earlier directed in the film Main Hoon Na (2004) was supposed to do Happy New Year but scrapped that project to do this film.
The film’s score and soundtrack are composed by the musical duo, Vishal-Shekhar with lyrics by renowned lyricist, Javed Akhtar. Composer A. R. Rahman opted out of this movie, as T-Series did not agree to share the copyrights of music with him and the lyricist.
The film is based on reincarnation. Shooting of the film began in January 2007 at various locations in India. 31 of the Bollywood’s stars put in a guest appearance for a special song in the film. The film was released on November 9, 2007.
Om Shanti Om is all set to create another record of sorts by going in for an unheard of 2000 prints (worldwide) release. This is the highest number of prints (including digital) for any Indian movie till date. Om Shanti Om has set a record of sorts as it has registered pre advanced booking of 18,000 tickets in a chain of theatres in national capital Delhi a couple of days before the advance booking was to start.
Baba Films, production and distribution company, has offered a record Rs.110 million for the rights to the Mumbai Circuit, easily surpassing the highest amount ever paid for the territory of Rs.85 million for Jaan-E-Mann.
SRK’s Red Chillies Entertainment has reportedly sold the world rights for the film to Eros International for an amount between Rs.720-750 million.
A book titled, The Making of Om Shanti Om written by Mushtaq Sheikh has been released after the release of the film. The book gives an insight about the production and happenings behind the camera of the film.
Cast
- Shahrukh Khan … Om Prakash Makhija/Om Kapoor (“OK”)
- Deepika Padukone … Shantipriya “Shanti”/Sandhya “Sandy”
- Shreyas Talpade … Pappu Master
- Kirron Kher … Bela Makhija
- Arjun Rampal … Mukesh “Mike” Mehra
- Javed Sheikh … Rajesh Kapoor
- Bindu Desai … Kamini
- Asawari Joshi … Lovely Kapoor
- Yuvika Choudhary… Dolly
- Shawar Ali…Shawar
- Girija Sarangi…Taxi Driver
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