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Om Shanti Om.

Om Shanti Om. It’s a complete method madness.

Is it the movie of a superstar with its super talented team or is it the dream come true of the common man in the superstar….. as the Om says in the movie: “jab tum tahe dil se kisiko chahate ho to sari kayanat use tumse milane ke liye jut jati hai”, same must have happened to SRK….. Om Shanti Om is really the dream come true for him, faraha, his team and ofcourse the most important part…. public…..

The first half is full of trademark shahrukh/farah khan comic acts with plenty of wacky humour. It laughs at bollywood, its cliches, its legands, everything but also pays a tribute to everything which everyone loves about bollywood….. everyone, from the streets to skies…..

Om, who is junior artists on the sets of bollywood in 70s is madly in love with shantipriya the superstar actress and dreams to act with her. The story takes him into her inner circle and she becomes part of his life. While he is on the sky day dreaming about her, he come to notice something about her that breaks his heart…. she loves somebody else.

Later, he finds that her loverboy isn’t really stuck with her but has some other aims and games. There comes the kahani me twist and story takes us to the disaster of shantipriya being burnt alive and om being dead….

Let’s have the look of the first half….

The sets the costumes, the environment of 70s sets the stage for the story…. to be unvieled in 2nd half which happens to be in 2007.

Faraha executes the story as a mastro of cinema…. she sure bring the 70s ambience, freshness, uniqueness, fun and keeps the audience smiling, cheering, laughing and even rolling on the floor with due to the onscreen nautanki which she and srk has brought together. Filmy… very filmy.

The story telling is marvelous in first half. It like watching a real 70s blockbuster…. the first half is very entertaining and has some tight story telling.

par picture abhi baki hai mere dost….

Come to 2nd half and it brings us the superstar of 2007, Om kapoor. The stylish, super confident and overspoiled brat. Here the writer/director servers us with another does of filmy comic book relating to current generation of bollywood. You got to see it to enjoy it.

While doing all this, she takes the story intelligently ahead without avoiding how, when, why questions….. She has integrated the reincarnation revenge story very cleverly in the script using the bollywood as a background which gives her some logic to the happenings.

She makes these things believable without using any cliches normally used in reincarnation. There is intelligent method behind this film’s madness. That’s why its complete method madness.

The 2nd half has some more punches to keep the viewer’s interest alive. You will need to see yourself how this method madness reveals the reincarnation revenge story from 70s to 2007.

Hat’s off to faraha and her co-writer Mushtaq to me the movie enjoyable and believable. The story, script and dialogs are well written. And why story department only, all the other departments, like music, cinematography, choreography, costumes, dialogs, everything is first rate and first class.

If things come out so beautifully after the taskmaster faraha shouts at her team members, she shall keep shoting all the life.

The 2nd biggest credit goes to SRK who is completely into the character of both Oms. He sure have enjoyed the 70’s Om and sure has worked hard to project the 2007’s om. He is perfect in every act he does, every scene he does. His performance will sure take him back to filmfare this year.

In acting department, everyone rocks too. The filmy mom of om played by kiron kher, the always-there-kinda friend of Om inacted by shreyas talpade, the villain played by arjun rampal are the best.

Now let’s talk about deepika padukone. She is as fresh as morning lotus, she is as bright as sunflower. For the first film, her performance is very very good. She deserves the publicity she is getting.

Deepika, Arjun and Shreyas will be most benefitted from this film.

SRK has earned himself one more decade of superstardome…. It can never get better than this for a SRK flick.

On the final notes, err, the climax note… this is a big filmy party and everyone (literally) is invited from reel to real life. Go have your glass of champaign.

Enjoy yourself with this diwali dhamaka. Happy Diwali.

BR Ratings: ****

— Reviewed by: Prashen H. Kyawal

PS: picture abhi baki hai dost…..
I wanted to occomodate another friend of mine for whom ticket was not reserved. I asked the theater person if there is any ticket available in black. He said “ab koyi black ka dhandha nahi karta. black main ticket kharide log aisi film hi kaha aati hai”…..

That says it all. OSO has filled all the seats in all the theaters be it single screen on multiplex…. go grab your ticket fast.