Om Shanti Om - Movie Review

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Shreyas Talpade, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, and Malaika Arora Khan Director: Farah Khan This film focuses on Om (Shah Rukh Khan) who grows up in the seventies. This is the time when he meets Shanti (Dipika Padukone ), the love of his life but shortly thereafter suffers an untimely demise. Om is immediately reincarnated and the story flash forwards to the present day. Haunted by memories of his past life and his true love, Om attempts to solve the mystery of his death, and also reunite with Shanti, the love of his past life. Om Shanti Om is said to be inspired by the Hollywood movie, Chances Are, where a man is reincarnated and instantaneously attempts to find the wife from his previous life. Om Shanti Om has over 30 well known Bollywood stars including Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Kajol, Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra, Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan putting in a guest appearance for a special song and dance sequence in the film, a concept recently used by Farah's brother, Sajid Khan in the opening number of his film, Heyy Babyy. Farah Khan's husband, Shirish Kunder (director of Jaan E Mann) is in charge of Om Shanti om's editing. He was previously involved in the same department for Farah's debut movie, Main Hoon Na. Om Shanti Om features Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role and introduces Deepika Padukone as his love interest. The supporting cast includes Arjun Rampal (recently seen in the film Don) and Shreyas Talpade. - SantaBanta . Com

Sanjay Dutt signs Rs. 20 crore deal!

Multi-crore deals are ‘in’ these days and almost every notable production house is into signing actors/directors for multi-film assignments.


The latest khabar is, Sanjay Dutt has inked a 3-film deal with producer-friend Bunty Walia. The films are 'Lamhaa', to be directed by Rahul Dholakia, 'Just Punjabi', to be directed by producer turned director Jaspreet Singh Walia and 'Gangs of London', to be directed by ad film maker Shamin Desai. The three films will go on floors between 2008 – 2010. Reportedly, Dutt will be paid Rs. 20 crores + for this 3-film deal.

“The amount is undisclosable,” Bunty Walia informs me. Meanwhile, the balance star cast is under finalization.

Ram Gopal Verma announces his next film, shoot in November

After Aag, Ram Gopal Varma has decided to do what he is best at. In a split-second decision (well, almost!) he has decided to make a film with only newcomers in the cast. The decision was taken earlier this week and Ramu is ready to roll by the beginning of November.

Revealing his plans the never-say-die director explains, "The film has a tongue twisting title, Dheyaya. It's a Sanskrit word for mission. I wanted an unused word to express what the film sets out to achieve. It'll be a realistic gritty dark film about the link between the underworld and various legitimate and illegitimate terrorist organizations. I want to trace the evolution of the underworld to where it stands today. The underworld started in the 1980s with smuggling then graduated to extortion and contract killings. Today the terrorist organizations are using criminal networks as conduits for their operations. That's the scenario Dhyeya will portray."

Ramu will not cast a single known face in the Dhyeya. "I want newcomers because I want the actors to not have any pre-conceived images. But in scale it will be a big-budget film.

Explains Ramu, "At the time when Satya and Company was made the underworld signified a different kind of fear. Today it's something else. I want to make it a very hard-hitting film. It will also show links between the underworld and politics and bring in international organizations like the CIA."

The film starts in November. "I'll finish Sarkar Raj at the end of October. I want to start Dhyeya immediately after. I had been toying with the idea for quite some time. Now we're seriously scripting the film."