An overdose of colour, an overdose of melodrama fused with clichéd situations and mixed with a mediocre music score makes Om Shanthi Om just about bearable. A flick on re-incarnation replete with broken loves, Om Shanthi Om did not live up to all the hype that was created around it.
TAKE 1
A dreamy junior artiste Om (Shah Rukh Khan) with his wide collared, polka dotted outfits falls head over heels in love with a doe eyed actress Shanthi (Deepika Padukone). Ensue a series of stints and situations that make you yawn at best. Confessions to a movie poster, melodramatic rescues, speeches in drunken stupor, talks with the moon, blah blah blah He finally manages to win the actress’s heart and they go on a date complete with snowfall, moonlight and glittering skylines.
Enter the evil producer Mehra (Arjun Rampal), who shares a secret with the actress. Our dreamy junior artiste now is heartbroken and vows to get over it and protect the actress from all that is evil and bad. Several heart wrenching scenes later, the evil producer succeeds in killing the actress and in the confusion our dreamer also is killed.
TAKE 2
Enter Om Kapoor, the spoilt rich kid with his entourage of stalkers, pretty girls and weeping producers. He is the doting child of Bollywood with loadsa innuendoes that make him look at best like a dumb bimbo. Shah Rukh Khan as Om the junior artiste was at least bearable against Shah Rukh Khan as Om the star here, what with his Botox infused face to his atrocious hair-do to his unbelievable narcissist persona.
The star begins to recollect his past life through a series of fortunate/unfortunate incidents and remembers that he still has to avenge the death of his broken heart. He sources a debutante who looks exactly like our doe eyed actress Shanthi (DUH!) and plots a finale that would make the evil producer confess the murder. What follows is a whole lot of tosh in which he successfully fools the evil producer (who is still around with the same physique as 30 years ago) into believing that the actress he killed is back to haunt him forever.
The much awaited finale ensues where Om belts out the only decent musical number in the movie and scares the Ray-Bans of Mehra. This ends in a tiny little twist in the tale which leaves Om confused yet satisfied and his objects fulfilled.
Plagiarism has always been the stronghold of many a Bollywood directors. Farah Khan is no exception, what with the entire studio settings of “Paramount Pictures” ripped off and projected as “RC Studios” or our Hero belting away lines from “Gone with the Wind” NOTE: Though Rhett Butler told it to Scarlett O Hara in the heat of the American Civil war, this quote is just laughable here between the male leads.
Watch Om Shanthi Om to see good performances by debut actors like Padukone and also be ready to be assaulted with colour, style and whole lotta movie stars.
TAKE 1
A dreamy junior artiste Om (Shah Rukh Khan) with his wide collared, polka dotted outfits falls head over heels in love with a doe eyed actress Shanthi (Deepika Padukone). Ensue a series of stints and situations that make you yawn at best. Confessions to a movie poster, melodramatic rescues, speeches in drunken stupor, talks with the moon, blah blah blah He finally manages to win the actress’s heart and they go on a date complete with snowfall, moonlight and glittering skylines.
Enter the evil producer Mehra (Arjun Rampal), who shares a secret with the actress. Our dreamy junior artiste now is heartbroken and vows to get over it and protect the actress from all that is evil and bad. Several heart wrenching scenes later, the evil producer succeeds in killing the actress and in the confusion our dreamer also is killed.
TAKE 2
Enter Om Kapoor, the spoilt rich kid with his entourage of stalkers, pretty girls and weeping producers. He is the doting child of Bollywood with loadsa innuendoes that make him look at best like a dumb bimbo. Shah Rukh Khan as Om the junior artiste was at least bearable against Shah Rukh Khan as Om the star here, what with his Botox infused face to his atrocious hair-do to his unbelievable narcissist persona.
The star begins to recollect his past life through a series of fortunate/unfortunate incidents and remembers that he still has to avenge the death of his broken heart. He sources a debutante who looks exactly like our doe eyed actress Shanthi (DUH!) and plots a finale that would make the evil producer confess the murder. What follows is a whole lot of tosh in which he successfully fools the evil producer (who is still around with the same physique as 30 years ago) into believing that the actress he killed is back to haunt him forever.
The much awaited finale ensues where Om belts out the only decent musical number in the movie and scares the Ray-Bans of Mehra. This ends in a tiny little twist in the tale which leaves Om confused yet satisfied and his objects fulfilled.
Plagiarism has always been the stronghold of many a Bollywood directors. Farah Khan is no exception, what with the entire studio settings of “Paramount Pictures” ripped off and projected as “RC Studios” or our Hero belting away lines from “Gone with the Wind” NOTE: Though Rhett Butler told it to Scarlett O Hara in the heat of the American Civil war, this quote is just laughable here between the male leads.
Watch Om Shanthi Om to see good performances by debut actors like Padukone and also be ready to be assaulted with colour, style and whole lotta movie stars.
