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I’ve seen the movie a few times now and my over thoughts remain the same! It’s a confused film for the most which works in parts. The first half is mainly a spoof where some parts work and others don’t. The second half tries to get more serious, but fails to connect with the viewer. The film becomes even more problematic when looking at Farah Khan’s vision of the industry of the past, though her current reading is fairly accurate as seen in the FF Awards.
Without a shred of doubt OM SHANTI OM was the most highly anticipated and awaited film of the year. Shahrukh Khan reuniting with his MAIN HOON NA director Farah Khan for a lavish, multi-crore reincarnation love story which is set in the Film Industry. So the million-dollar question, does the movie live up to expectations? Quiet frankly, no!
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which is more funny?
1. Akshay fans saying KI is NOT a flop but MNIK IS a flop.
2. SRK fans saying ...
"You really believe that MNIK is not a flop street? "
first you tell me. two questions for you:
Isn't it ...
DDDhit- Don't worry MNIK has recovered its money from Indonesia, Yeman etc. LOL !!! 
You really believe that MNIK is not a flop street? :) 
Sachin in full form:
I hope you are feeling better
A. R. Rahman’s Chicago gig tickets sell for $1,050 each 
Kya Rocky sir...bahot neend aa rahi hai? :)
Chalo chodo iss baat ko we shud better agree to disagree on this ...
I am a Huge, huge fan of MS Dhoni for a pretty long time. I havent missed a single match ...
I do not think any Bollywood star other than Aamir Khan can figure in 2009-10 top 10 of all India ...
Kunal 11 October 2009
02:18:54 am
Is it like “Failures of OSO part 1″????
pardesi 11 October 2009
02:29:12 am
OSO failed for all but those who made it a blockbuster.
Kunal 11 October 2009
02:39:53 am
can’t wait for part 4, 5, 6
sv 11 October 2009
03:43:40 am
Someone explained to you why Amitabh was not there in OSO.Is that one of the reasons why OSO didn’t work to you.OSO is
entertaining but only a one time watch.Shahrukh Khan gets too excited in the film.
OSO is filled with Anachranisms. That makes it somewhat entertaining and illogical.Though OSO does not have any critical value it is a onetime watch.It is a case of trying to showcase too much in a film.Cinematography is very good in the film.That I found to be the best about OSO.
akshay shah 11 October 2009
03:50:28 am
About sums it up for me SV!
Doga 11 October 2009
07:58:24 am
We should not compare OSO with CDI, lol.
CDI was almost universally liked. OSO is usually commercial stuff so if someone doesnt like it as such whats bad in that.
Also if Boxoffice is the final verdict, then we should stop also cribbing about the likes of Raja Hindustani,Ghajini, Wanted and so on. Lets be fair.
Doga 11 October 2009
08:02:17 am
And that include me too(in we).
pardesi 11 October 2009
12:00:45 pm
My comment was only addressing the sentence in the review that said “the film did not work for viewers”. Personal likes and dislikes are a different matter. General statements about viewers can only be reflected through the Box Office.
SV needs to see OSO again, Amitabh was there, and Abhishek too. I would be curious to know what the anachronisms in OSO are! The art direction just got a National award for perfect recreation of a period.
Shiva 11 October 2009
12:09:52 pm
Whatever it is folks! Om Shanti Om is a complete well made spoof. That’s Y it worked well. Even Main Hoon Naa was also a spoof, but well made. If it would have been bad as pretended above it would not have been a block buster. It’s results shows it all. Its a fun movie. don’t search for acting talent as you are watching some art movie. Its a full on Entertainment!
Doga 11 October 2009
12:22:12 pm
I did like Main Hoon Naa to some extent.
Qalandar 11 October 2009
03:41:18 pm
I noted some anachronisms in my Om Shanti Om review. This film didn’t work for me at all, although given its gross, I was evidently in the minority…
Qalandar 11 October 2009
03:42:05 pm
Although I had some issues with the politics of Main Hoon Na,* overall I too enjoyed it a lot more than Om Shanti Om…
*[it seems odd that the military-men who are shown as subversive of the established order are Indian soldiers -- while the Pakistani general (whose ilk in fact have a long history of subverting elected regimes) was basically the good guy. Indeed, the only people shown perpetrating atrocities on innocent villagers were Indian soldiers. I don't have any issue with such representations per se, but in the context of a film with an Indo-Pak dimension, and the absence of any such representation vis-a-vis the Pakistani "side", the effect was incongruous for me.]
Relevant earlier comments HERE and HERE.
pardesi 11 October 2009
10:32:57 pm
An anachronism—from the Greek ανά (ana: against, anti-) and χρόνος (chronos: time)—is an error in chronology, especially a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other.(Wikipedia).
I saw that review – a very serious one of a full-out spoof (and one that never claimed otherwise), where missing a year here or there is hardly critical. It was not trying to be a Khoya Khoya Chand serious recreation of an era. I found many more anachronisms in Jodhaa Akbar which was trying to be a serious historical!!
Regarding Main Hoon Naa – which Pakistani general are you talking about? The film only dealt with events from the Indian side.
RAJ 11 October 2009
11:09:35 pm
Shiva,
Welcme to NG…
RAJ 11 October 2009
11:15:34 pm
Thank GoD psuedo intellectuals are in minority…Atleast OSO’ gross collections tells that..
My question to all the Torch beareres of Masala genre..
Why do you guys comfortably ignore a perfect Masala like “‘Ghayal”" or a “‘damini”" just because it stars Sunny Deol??
Qalandar 11 October 2009
11:46:59 pm
Re: “My question to all the Torch beareres of Masala genre..
Why do you guys comfortably ignore a perfect Masala like “‘Ghayal”” or a “‘damini”” just because it stars Sunny Deol??”
Who is ignoring them? The reason they are not part of the discussion (at least IMO) is that when they were released, masala was the dominant paradigm. There was nothing odd about such films at the time (whereas Ghajini and Wanted are rather unusual these days). For this reason, no-one would bring up Muqaddar ka Sikandar or Ghulami in a discussion on contemporary masala cinema either — in its era, these films were comfortably within the dominant Hindi popular cinema trend. But WANTED isn’t.
Yakuza 12 October 2009
12:09:08 am
@Raj, Even Non-Pseudo Intellectuals in majority failed to realize the intellectual element hardly present in this highly pseudo intellectual product directed by country’s most intellectual director generally referred by pseudo intellectual fans of one and only self intellectual leading actor of this blockbuster.
Just a Joke ..
RAJ 12 October 2009
12:29:32 am
Yakuja,
I will again repeat the things i have said before..
“”Pseaudo intellectuals search for intelligence in a movie
Intelligent people do not waste time in a movie
Avg movie going public(common Man) search for Entertainment in a movie”"
Movies like OSO,Ghajni,D2,Welcome and Wanted are for common and sensible men who dont believe movie viewing is a intellectually enrching process..For them movie viewing in a theatre is a process where they can have fun and a decent experince..
To me “”psueado intellectualal”" is somebody who try to find out meaning from every cinema which never is the case…You will find out only 30-40 masterpicese in every laguage where a movie is made which is may be 1 pct of the total movies made…
When i watched OSO in a theatre with family and freinds the atmosphere in the theatre was unmatchable…People enjoyed,whistled every moment of it…I have experinced such atmoshere only during D2 before in recent times…I havent watched Ghajni and wanted in theatres but i am sure the atmosphere in the theatre would be electrifying…A movie should aspire to do that more often…When i came out of the theatre after watching OSO i saw happy and excited people around me .My Diwali was made…
OSO worked for the viewing public and that is the bottomline..I am happy there were no “”jobless critics”" to puncture the excitement and happiness of the people there at the theatres…
RAJ 12 October 2009
12:36:10 am
Yakuja,
“”Even Non-Pseudo Intellectuals in majority failed to realize the intellectual element hardly present in this highly pseudo intellectual product”"
Non pseudo intellectuals never try to find out intellectual stuff in a movie…
akshay shah 12 October 2009
01:12:44 am
Pseudo-intellectuals etc aside, I love a HEYY BABYY and a DHAMAAL (or a WANTED for that matter) as much as I love a GULAAL or A WEDNESDAY!
I dont doubt OSO’s bo credentials, but as a film it failed for me in a lot of ways.
In a house-full cinema with family and friends I also enjoyed films like HEYY BABYY, PHIR HERA PHERI etc but they’re not films I would re-visit nor films I would hold in high regard…ditto applies to OSO! In saying that, my expectations were obviously a LOT higher for OSO (as they should be) and the movie just didn’t do anything for me….
MHN I liked a LOT more and can sit through again as well…
Glad you bought up GHAYAL btw Raj..I just got my copy of this, GHATAK and CHINAGATE so watch out for a piece on this soon….
On the spoof front, the best spoof was Quickgun Murugan and i’ve heard the actual mvoie is a LOT better…….
RAJ 12 October 2009
01:32:42 am
Agree here..MHN was a better made movie than OSO…OSO first half was lot better to the second half BTW…
“”Glad you bought up GHAYAL btw Raj..I just got my copy of this, GHATAK and CHINAGATE so watch out for a piece on this soon….”"
Ghayal was a movie which worked for me from all angles…Damini too…Ghatak was a bit loud and violent..Neverthless a solid one time watch…It was Sunny’s dialogue delievery in all the above three ,what worked for me…Raj Santoshi is definitely a very good dialogue writer..
China gate was a strictly OK movie..It tried to rekindle the masala of Sholay ..There was no novelity in the stroty line..It was similar to that of Sholay,Khote shikke(Firoz Khan)Etc.
Regarding spoof front,i tried to watch QGM yesterday..I couldnt go through first 15 mins hence i stopped watching…The “”Rice plate reddy”" charachter was very loud…May be i missed the better part of the movie..
For me MHN in total and First half of OSO was the best spoof i have watched in this decade…
akshay shah 12 October 2009
01:39:00 am
Santoshi is one of the best dialogue writers we have left IMO in Hindi cinema! It’s also an award he has won (deservedly) a lot of times.
I used to have a great weakness for GHAYAL/GHATAK (havent revisited in a while hence checking out again). DAMINI is immortal, though I prefer AAA and KHAKEE from Santoshi’s films…..
Agree on CHINAGATE, though again my weakness here is the performances, action and cinematography which is often overlooked…
well 15 mins in to a 2 hour movie you wont get to see much, trust me it puts any of the gags in OSO to shame (btw the Manoj Kumar, Govinda etc jokes didn’t do much at all).
My preference here is the FF sequence which works rather well…..
That aside, the whole picture just didn’t connect here IMO like it did with MHN……but each to their own
Yakuza 12 October 2009
01:56:56 am
@Raj “Non pseudo intellectuals never try to find out intellectual stuff in a movie…”
Non pseudo intellectuals means “intellectuals” ….
Raj creating entertaining spoof is an intellectual and creative act, OSO Was half decent though .. second half spoilt the mood, getting serious mood in a movie which is spoof of 70’s was a bad idea though …It was expected to be out an out laugh riot and first half was replicate same(though on low note), but second half was misplaced.
“Andaz Apna Apna” was best spoof comedy and miles ahead of OSO despite being failure at B.O., this movie never get serious even for a second.
manoj16_391 12 October 2009
02:23:04 am
General statements about viewers can only be reflected through the Box Office
Taking the above into consideration,Swades and TLOBS were definitely disliked by the audiences and that “in general view” OSO was far better than Swades!
sv 12 October 2009
02:37:08 am
OSO is far better than MHN.
Pardesi,Rajesh Khanna a big star in 1977.He was over by 1975.Showing Mithun.He became a star in 1982.
And the complete absense of Amitabh.Where was he in the first half.OSO doesn’t show things which existed then.
RAJ 12 October 2009
03:42:09 am
Yakuja,
“”"Non pseudo intellectuals means “intellectuals”"
Now dont tell me you know better english than me
Clearly you missed my scracasm….
Yes AAA was a better spoof by a mile…No doubt whatsoever ..
Yakuza 12 October 2009
03:54:07 am
Raj ..
You responded so seriously to my above comment
“Even Non-Pseudo Intellectuals in majority failed to realize the intellectual element hardly present in this highly pseudo intellectual product directed by country’s most intellectual director generally referred by pseudo intellectual fans of one and only self intellectual leading actor of this blockbuster.”
which i clearly written as joke .. If you would have been looked into this comment the way you watched OSO, your hard work to write such a long essay in respond to this comment would have been saved …
[As there was no need ]
Raj you simply miss the humor .. which you catch deliberately in OSO. …
Yakuza 12 October 2009
03:56:05 am
And Raj .. leave you .. my English is even worse than SRK ..
RAJ 12 October 2009
04:20:43 am
Yakuja,
“”which i clearly written as joke .. If you would have been looked into this comment the way you watched OSO, your hard work to write such a long essay in respond to this comment would have been saved … [As there was no need ]“”
again you missed my joking response to your joke…
LOL
You really need to watch AAA oncegain to regain your humour
“”And Raj .. leave you .. my English is even worse than SRK .. “”
I knew
come for a class 
Yakuza 12 October 2009
04:34:24 am
“again you missed my joking response to your joke… LOL”
chal juthe ..
pakda gaya to ab bahane bana raha hai …
RAJ 12 October 2009
05:16:02 am
“”chal juthe “”
Atleast “”Jhute”" ka spelling to thik likha kar…
Yakuza 12 October 2009
05:34:35 am
“Atleast “”Jhute”” ka spelling to thik likha kar… ”
चल झूठी …
Giddh 12 October 2009
05:47:42 am
“OSO failed for all but those who made it a blockbuster.”
Welcome was also a Blockbuster. Why is that not a prestige film like OSO – cause it is directed by a man?
S T R E E T 13 October 2009
10:03:44 am
So akshay didn’t like OSO.. how many more times are you going to tell us that? Don’t remember the last time somebody wrote so many pieces (or is it you just posting the same thing again and again) about a movie/performance that did NOT work for him/her. I think we got it the very first time.
And yeah, I loved OSO.. I enjoyed more than any other Star movie this decade. I also loved MHN, which I have already watched a million times (well… almost).
The way I look at the two movies… is that those who dint like them simply din’t get them. In fact even the politics end of the movies specially MHN, there’s a lot more engraved in the charcters than you just visible on the surface.
I ‘ve mentioned this before about how MHN is one of the movies chosen for detailed analysis in a Film Studies course in our university. I remember how the prof (who’s not some die-hard SrK fan mind you!) saw the India-Pak politics in the two lead characters, beyond the whole Sunil Shetty terrrost plot, and how SrK in the film represented India in many ways Zayed Khan Pakistan. I thought of posting up the whole analysis.. but never got the time…
S T R E E T 13 October 2009
10:08:22 am
on OSO’s politics and how the film mirrors the Indian industry in many ways.. I wrote an “Essay” myself.. I’ll try to dig that one too.
Farah Khan is much more than spoof comedy.. she’s a brilliant brilliant director who knows her game better than many other wannabe’s.
for one, you have to credit her the return of masala cinema to Bollywood with MHN. .. or else there’d be no OSO, no Ghajini and prolly no Wanted either.
Doga 13 October 2009
11:02:41 am
More than trying to make a distinction between Masala and Non Masala, what bollywood needs more right now is entertaining cinema rather than dull and boring cinema , lol.