Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade, Kirron Kher, Arjun Rampal

Director: Farah Khan

Once upon a time a superstar and his fave choreographer got together and said, let's make a movie. So they put together all the fave films from the time they were growing up, and came up with Main Hoon Na: a non-stop medley of emotion, comedy, romance and maar-dhaad. Very 70s, way over the top, and a huge hit.

So the next time around, the two decided to go down the exact same route. The result is Om Shanti Om. It could as easily have been called Main Hoon Na, 2.Because, for the price of one ticket, you get two Shah Rukh Khans. You also get the whole 70s thing again, only more so, via Subhash Ghai this time, rather than Manmohan Desai.

Om Prakash Makhija aka Omi (SRK) is a junior artist, who hangs out on the sets with his best pal (Shreyas), in the hope of that big break. His ever-loving mom (Kirron) just knows, in her maa ka dil that he will be a big star. When he is not 'struggling', he is busy adoring Shantipriya (Deepika), the biggest heroine that ever set foot on a red carpet. They meet, and they part, for ever more, in true Bollywood style.

Thirty years on, the genial Omi is reborn as superstar Om Kapoor (SRK), the bell-bottoms and big-collared shirts replaced by distressed jeans and ganjis, and an I-care-a-flying-f attitude. And then one day, his past life comes swarming back, in the shape of the villain of the piece, the evil producer Mukesh-call-me-Mike (Arjun). The mom and friend, all wrinkled and grey, show up, as well as lissome wannabe leading lady Sandy, a startling Shantipriya look-alike.

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