Director- Farah Khan
Music - Vishal & Shekar
After having been struck by Farah Khan's spoofy film "Main Hoon Na", myself and hubby dear were eagerly waiting to watch this movie. Sharukh's six-pack also was very very tempting. We wanted to watch this movie asap. The fact that we got tickets for a night show and each ticket costed us Rs 150/- didn't deter us from watching this movie.
The movie has the reincarnation drama with generous helping of humor. OSO is Karz directed by Manmohan Desai. There is also a reference to Manhoman Desai in the movie.
OSO starts in the 70's where Subhash Ghai is directing the song Om Shanti Om. Here Om Prakash Makhija (SRK) and his friend Pappu Master (Shreyas Talpade) are junior artists. The ever struggling junior artists who always dream to be heroes. Om has a huge crush on the Superstar heroine of those times Shanti Priya (Deepika).
During one of the shoots Om saves Shanti from a fire accident. As a gesture Shanti agrees to spend an evening with Om. The movie's best song (Tum ko paya hai) plays as Om goes all fida on Shanti. Then he comes to know that Shanti is secretly married to the vicious producer Prakash Mehra (Arjun Rampal). Shanti is fighting for her recognition as Mehra's wife. In turn she gets killed by him and Om also dies in an attempt to save her. Well in the other half the same junior artist becomes the biggest star of his times and takes revenge on the producer.
Now things said about the plot, I would like to highlight the strengths of the movie:
1. backdrop i.e. sets in the first half
2. costume in the first half. Everyone , from the background artists were wearing clothes of that era and the detailing was given a lot of importance.
3. SRK's six -pack abs in the song Dard-e-disco
4. The writers make light of everyone and everything in sight, packing the first half with so many jokes and movie references. Even the South Indian film industry was not spared by Farah.
5. When the credits are rolled out in the end, everyone from the spot boy to the light man are brought in the front of the camera, which I felt was a very nice way of giving credit to. Kudos to SRK and Farah for this novel idea.
6. Credits to Farah for bringing Sheryas in the commercial stream, because he is so good an actor that we do not want to watch him in just few off-beat films.
Having said about the pluses, the major flaw I could say was the spoof was not very much on the face and so the fun element was missed out unlike Main Hoon Na. Sparing for some 3 songs the other songs in this movie are forgettable.
So that's it folks from my end. OSO is a watchable movie.
OSO starts in the 70's where Subhash Ghai is directing the song Om Shanti Om. Here Om Prakash Makhija (SRK) and his friend Pappu Master (Shreyas Talpade) are junior artists. The ever struggling junior artists who always dream to be heroes. Om has a huge crush on the Superstar heroine of those times Shanti Priya (Deepika).
During one of the shoots Om saves Shanti from a fire accident. As a gesture Shanti agrees to spend an evening with Om. The movie's best song (Tum ko paya hai) plays as Om goes all fida on Shanti. Then he comes to know that Shanti is secretly married to the vicious producer Prakash Mehra (Arjun Rampal). Shanti is fighting for her recognition as Mehra's wife. In turn she gets killed by him and Om also dies in an attempt to save her. Well in the other half the same junior artist becomes the biggest star of his times and takes revenge on the producer.
Now things said about the plot, I would like to highlight the strengths of the movie:
1. backdrop i.e. sets in the first half
2. costume in the first half. Everyone , from the background artists were wearing clothes of that era and the detailing was given a lot of importance.
3. SRK's six -pack abs in the song Dard-e-disco
4. The writers make light of everyone and everything in sight, packing the first half with so many jokes and movie references. Even the South Indian film industry was not spared by Farah.
5. When the credits are rolled out in the end, everyone from the spot boy to the light man are brought in the front of the camera, which I felt was a very nice way of giving credit to. Kudos to SRK and Farah for this novel idea.
6. Credits to Farah for bringing Sheryas in the commercial stream, because he is so good an actor that we do not want to watch him in just few off-beat films.
Having said about the pluses, the major flaw I could say was the spoof was not very much on the face and so the fun element was missed out unlike Main Hoon Na. Sparing for some 3 songs the other songs in this movie are forgettable.
So that's it folks from my end. OSO is a watchable movie.
Rating : **1/2 (Watchable)
1 comment:
I really loved the movie...
Such a entertaining screenplay... i felt that it was better than
"Main Hoon Na.."
Speaking about strength # 5, Even in Main Hoon Na F & SRK did this at the end.
FYI, OSO made it to 11th place in US Box Office during the opening weekend.
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/weekend/2007/11/11/
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