I have been wanting to write a couple of blogs since some days now …
But have had to put that off for more important work (read writing Requirement Documents :p)
Anyways, its 1:54 A.M. right now — and I am back after watching one of the most enjoyable films that I have watched in a while – so I am just going to go ahead and gush about it in this post.
I don’t know what reactions other people had about Om Shanti Om – but I absolutely loved the movie!
It makes me want to put on my music full blast at 2 A.M. in the night, get creative and do some loud, colourful design work!
Initially, I was expecting the movie to delve into a deep reincarnation love story by looking at the initial promos.
However, thanks to a few early reviews that I read, I dropped all such expectations.
In short – Om Shanti Om is a complete entertainer!
Do not expect a complex story out of it – or any story whatsoever.
It has all the right ingredients — which make hindi movies what they are.
It has the following in ample proportions:
- One of the best hindi music scores I have heard in a long time!
- Sharukh Khan (for some, Sharukh Khan – topless!)
- Cliche’s
- Deepika Padukone (She is sooooo pretty !!!!)
- Shreyas Talpade
- Ample of jokes, gags and intelligent parodies.
- The 31 stars song!
Om Shanti Om is all loud music, decent humour, larger than life sets and plenty of colour.
Something western audiences go to hindi movies for — and I am dead sure its going to do as well abroad as it will in India.
The songs are lovely and if nothing, go and watch it for Deepika Padukone. She looks absolutely gorgeous in the entire film!
Even though going for a movie at prime time nowadays, costs a sizeable fortune, I felt this movie was complete worth it – total paisa vasool.
If you wanna know, the first “half” lasts for one hour and is completely fun to watch.
The second “half” lasts for around an hour and forty-five minutes — pegging the runtime of the entire movie at around two hours forty five minutes.
But at no time did the movie drag. It was always fun and though in the middle I felt Farah Khan was losing it, she managed to pull it back with a decent ending.
Even the rolling credits in the end are fun to watch and lets you leave the theatre feeling good about the entire experience.
In short, a complete fun, enjoyable, masala movie!
even i watched i on the 1st day… i found it ok.. the 2nd half was not that good as shahrukh tried to overact. But True Deepika was pretty.. No chemistry in the 2nd half.
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Welcome to the real Bollywood !
Maybe after a few more runs of bollywood movies, you might find all this normal, a tried-and-tested formula that always works in India ( Forget abroad ! I mean, even KANH worked there !! ) .
As Preetam said, there was no chemistry. The story felt like it was written on the sets, with shooting going on at the side, and writers spitting out dialogues on the fly.
I guess good, ‘old’ Shahrukh ( and his directors ) has to stop trying to carry a film on his shoulders and start relying on the new, upcoming artists like Shreyas Talpade, Deepika Padukone. Something that was done in Chak De India,
I am sorry , in the above comment, I meant KANK ( Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna ) , not KANH ( which doesnt mean anything :) )