Om Shanti Om

Om Shanti Om is a 2007 Bollywood movie directed and choreographed by Farah Khan. It stars Shah Rukh 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. This is the Bollywood debut of Deepika Padukone. This movie released on November 9, 2007 and it was a blockbuster. More than forty-two well-known Bollywood stars from yesteryear and today appear in the course of the movie, including thirty-one of them (not including the stars of the movie) in one song alone. The song "Deewangi Deewangi" is also notable for that reason.

Om Shanti Om
Directed byFarah Khan
Written byTopper Alam
Abbas Tyrewala
Produced byGauri Khan
StarringShah Rukh Khan
Deepika Padukone
Kirron Kher
Shreyas Talpade
Arjun Rampal
Uvika Choudhary
CinematographyV. Manikandan
Edited byShirish Kunder
Music byVishal-Shekhar
Distributed byRed Chillies Entertainment
Eros Labs
Release date
November 9, 2007
Running time
170 mins (2 Hours & 50 Mins)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi/Urdu
BudgetRs 350,000,000
$8.9 Million (approximately)
Box officeDomestic: Rs 81,24,00,000
Worldwide: $37,707,444 [1]

Cast
  • Shah Rukh Khan as
    • Om Prakash Makhija – A junior artist who has a crush on famous actress Shantipriya.
    • Om Kapoor aka OK – Reborn Om Prakash, A famous actor and Sandhya's love interest.[2]
  • Deepika Padukone as
    • Shantipriya aka Shanti – A yesteryear Bollywood actress, Om Prakash's crush.
    • Sandhya 'Sandy' Bansal – Shantipriya's doppelgänger, OK's love interest (Mona Ghosh Shetty as the Hindi dubbing voice)[2]
  • Arjun Rampal as Mukesh 'Mike' Mehra aka Mikey – A film producer and Shanti's husband[2]
  • Shreyas Talpade as Pappu Master – Om Prakash's friend who supported O.K. later.[2]
  • Kirron Kher as Bela Makhija – Om Prakash's mother[2]
  • Bindu Desai as Kamini Arora – Dolly's mother[2]
  • Javed Sheikh as Rajesh Kapoor – O.K.'s father[2]
  • Satish Shah as Partho Roy[2]
  • Yuvika Chaudhary as Dolly Arora – Kamini's daughter and O.K.'s friend[2]
  • Nitesh Pandey as Anwar – O.K.'s assistant[2]
  • Asawari Joshi as Lovely Kapoor – O.K.'s mother and Rajesh's wife[2]
  • Nasser Abdullah as Nasser[2]
  • Shawar Ali as Shawar[2]
  • Lin Laishram as Om Kapoor's friend[3]
Cameo appearances
  • Amitabh Bachchan as himself
  • Anil Kapoor as himself
  • Uday Chopra as himself
  • Hrithik Roshan as himself
  • Abhishek Bachchan as himself
  • Akshay Kumar as himself
  • Bipasha Basu as herself
  • Aishwarya Rai as herself
  • Amisha Patel as herself, Om Kapoor's heroine at Filmfare Awards
  • Diya Mirza as herself, Om Kapoor's heroine at Filmfare Awards.
  • Arshad Warsi as himself
  • Gul Panag as herself
  • Bappi Lahiri as himself
  • Chunky Pandey as himself
  • Dhananjay Singh as himself
  • Farah Khan as the woman who makes fun of Om Prakash when the show ends.
  • Feroz Khan as himself
  • Gauri Khan as herself
  • Karan Johar as himself
  • Koena Mitra as herself
  • Malaika Arora as herself
  • Mayur Puri as the director of Apahij Pyar
  • Vishal Dadlani as the director of Mohabbat Man, a superhero film
  • Manikandan Velayutham as the director of Mind It, a parody of action films
  • Priya Patil as Natasha, heroine of Apahij Pyar
  • Rakesh Roshan as himself
  • Rishi Kapoor as himself
  • Shabana Azmi as herself
  • Soumya Seth as Audience
  • Subhash Ghai as himself while shooting his iconic film Karz.
  • Yash Chopra as himself
Special appearances during the song "Deewangi Deewangi" (in appearance order)

Crew
  • Producer: Gauri Khan.
  • Director: Farah Khan
  • Screenplay: Farah Khan
  • Story: Farah Khan, Mayur Puri & Mushtaq Sheikh
  • Dialogue: Mayur Puri
  • Editor: Shirish Kunder
  • Music: Vishal-Shekhar
  • Choreography: Farah Khan & Prabhu Ramaswamy
  • Lyrics: Javed Akhtar, Vishal Dadlani & Kumaar
  • Cinematography: V. Manikandan
  • Assistant Directors: Vaibhav Mishra, Joyeeta Chatterji, Kanika Dhillon, Pooja Desai, Parag Kalica, Arunabh Kumar, Zoa Morani
  • Executive Producer: Sanjiv Chawala
  • Director of Photography: V. Manikandan
  • Art Director: Sabu Cyril
  • Action Directors: Sham Kaushal, Aamar Shetty, Angelo Sahin
  • Background Music: Sandeep Chowta
  • Visual Effects Studios: Red Chillies VFX

Box office

The film grossed more than 1 billion in India and $287 million in overseas and become All-time blockbuster movie in 2007 for one year. As of 2017, this film is 36th in the list of highest-grossing films.[4]

References
  1. "Top Lifetime Grossers Worldwide (IND Rs)". Boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  2. "Om Shanti Om Cast". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  3. "Here's why Korean pop is more popular than Priyanka Chopra's Mary Kom in Manipur- Entertainment News, Firstpost". firstpost.com. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  4. "Box Office India". Box Ofice India. Retrieved 15 March 2017.

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