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Durée	162 minutes
Année de sortie	2024
Genre	Horror
Pays	- India
Scénario	Farah Khan
Réalisation	Farah Khan

Présentation

Om Shanti Om (transl. Om, Shanti, and Om) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language romantic fantasy comedy film directed and co-written by Farah Khan with Mayur Puri and Mushtaq Shiekh. It stars Shah Rukh Khan as Om, a junior artist in 1977 who has a crush on a secretly married superstar, played by Deepika Padukone in her Hindi film debut. Her lover, a producer played by Arjun Rampal, kills her in a fire; Om witnesses this and dies from the injuries sustained from trying to rescue her. Reincarnated as a superstar in 2007, he seeks to avenge his love. Om Shanti Om also starred Shreyas Talpade, Kirron Kher, Bindu Desai and Javed Sheikh in supporting roles, and saw cameos from many Bollywood celebrities in several sequences and songs.

The film was produced and presented by Shah Rukh's wife Gauri Khan under the banner Red Chillies Entertainment on a budget of ₹50 crore. Farah conceived Om Shanti Om while directing the musical Bombay Dreams (2002), which was based on the Indian film industry. After Shah Rukh rejected the first version of her next film Happy New Year, she was reminded of Om Shanti Om; the film's title derives from a similar titled popular song from the 1980 film Karz. The soundtrack album was composed by Vishal–Shekhar, with lyrics written by Javed Akhtar. The background score was performed by Sandeep Chowta. The album received positive reviews and was also commercially successful, becoming the highest-selling album of the year in India.

The film was theatrically released in India on 9 November 2007 during Diwali weekend, Om Shanti Om earned over ₹215 crore worldwide becoming the highest grossing Bollywood film of the year; it received positive reviews, with praise for the performances and the film's narrative. The film won several awards in major Indian film award ceremonies. At 53rd Filmfare Awards, it received 12 nominations, winning for Best Female Debut and Best Special Effects, and also won the National Film Award for Best Production Design. The film's climax was inspired by that of the 1958 Hindi film Madhumati.

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Synopsis

In 1977, Om Prakash Makhija is a junior artist in Hindi cinema who is in love with a film actress named Shantipriya "Shanti" Kashyap. He and his friend Pappu Master take on numerous small acting roles as film extras at RC Studios, a major film studio compound owned by producer Mukesh Mehra. One evening, Om attends the premiere of Shanti's film, and envisions himself as the lead actor Manoj Kumar. That night, a drunk Om describes his fantasy of one day winning a Filmfare Award for Best Actor and makes an emotional and inspiring speech on the streets in front of his friends. The next morning, at the shooting of a film, Om rescues Shanti after a fire grows out of control, and they become friends. Om then tries to woo her.

One day, at an RC Studios backdrop set, when Om tries to meet Shanti, he ends up overhearing a conversation between her and Mukesh. The pair have been married for two years in secret and Mukesh refuses to reveal this in public. Shanti insists him to acknowledge her as his wife and reveals that she is pregnant with Mukesh's child, leaving Om heartbroken while Mukesh seems overjoyed. After some days, he takes Shanti at the sets of their upcoming film titled Om Shanti Om. He says that he will cancel the film, reveal their marriage to the public, and have a grand wedding on the set. Om happens to be on the same set in the hopes of meeting Shanti for one last time before she goes on with her life, but seeing her happy with Mukesh, he leaves. However, the very next moment Mukesh reveals his true colors. He confronts Shanti saying that her insistence for revealing their relationship to the public along with the child will destroy his career. He tells her that he has arranged for the set to burn, and lights the set up, leaving a horrified Shanti inside and locking her.

Just when a depressed Om is about to leave the compound, he is shocked to see Mukesh leaving and Shanti desperately crying out for help. He attempts to rescue her, but is attacked by Mukesh's guards, leaving him severely injured. After the guards leave, he again attempts to rescue Shanti, but he is thrown from the building by its fiery explosion and lands in a nearby street, disoriented. As he assumes Shanti to be dead, he is suddenly hit by a car owned by Rajesh Kapoor, a famous actor taking his pregnant wife Lovely to the hospital as she is in labour. At the hospital, Om remembers his moments with Shanti as he dies, while his soul reincarnates into the newborn Om Kapoor, given birth by Lovely.

30 years later

In 2007, Om Kapoor, nicknamed O.K., is a famous actor and lives the luxurious life dreamt of by Om, but experiences pyrophobia and subconsciously inherits Om's memories. He also bears a birthmark on his wrist similar to the "Om" tattoo which was on Om's wrist. His previous life mother Bela visits every set of O.K. claiming him to be her son and O.K. feels weird seeing her.

Soon after his 30th birthday, O.K. and his assistant Anwar drive to the RC Studios compound – long neglected and in disarray after the fire 30 years earlier - to shoot for an upcoming film as O.K. was insisting to shoot on a realistic location. While being there, O.K. experiences unsettling memory flashes of his past life at the studio, including that of eavesdropping on Mukesh and Shanti. At an awards ceremony, when OK is awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Actor, he unknowingly delivers the same speech Om Prakash made when he was drunk, which is viewed by an aged Pappu on television, surprising him. The next evening, Rajesh throws a party in celebration. During the celebration, O.K. sees Mukesh, whose glimpse, followed by a formal introduction from Rajesh, causes him to fully remember the events of Om's life. That night, O.K. has an emotional reunion with Bela and Pappu, and conspires to avenge Shanti's death by making Mukesh confess his crime.

O.K. convinces Mukesh to restart shooting for Om Shanti Om, and he plans to convince him that Shanti's spirit is haunting him. To find Shanti's lookalike, O.K., Pappu, Bela and Anwar audition many actresses, but are unsuccessful, when they finally find a super-fan of O.K.'s named Sandhya 'Sandy' Bansal, an exact doppelgänger of Shanti. Throughout the film's shooting, O.K. and his friends arrange incidents to remind Mukesh of the past including organising the film's launch at the same ruined set. During the process of creating the incidents, supernatural events occur in support of the plans when they nearly fail, much to the confusion of O.K. and his friends. During the music launch of the film, O.K. taunts Mukesh by revealing the extent to which he knows the story of Shanti's death. But when Mukesh runs after Sandy suspecting she is not Shanti's spirit, Sandy accidentally cuts her arm and bleeds. Seeing this, Mukesh is convinced about the fiasco. As he chases Sandy further, he is suddenly hit by the set's swinging chandelier, knocking him unconscious.

After Mukesh regains consciousness, O.K. confronts him but Mukesh reveals that he knows Sandy is not a ghost after all, surprising O.K. Mukesh then says no one can do him any harm as there is no proof of the murder, but just then Sandy appears, saying she has proof, and confronts Mukesh. She reveals that after the fire ceased to burn, Mukesh found that Shanti had survived and buried her alive below the chandelier. O.K. is confused about how Sandy knows this in detail, since he did not know this himself. Mukesh, spooked by the fact that she knows all this, attempts to shoot Sandy, shocked by the revelation about the murder, but O.K. tries to stop him and they both fight, which results in yet another fire. Just when a furious O.K. is about to kill Mukesh, Sandy stops him, saying Mukesh will die indeed, but not at O.K.'s hands. She looks at the chandelier and it proceeds to fall on him, killing Mukesh instantly.

Pappu, Sandy and Anwar rush to join O.K., who is shocked to see Sandy in two places at once. Just then he realises that the person he assumed to be Sandy was actually Shanti's spirit, and recalls instances where supernatural events helped when O.K.'s plans almost did not work, realising that her spirit was responsible. She smiles warmly towards O.K. and tearfully bids him goodbye, disappearing as she moves into the light. O.K. reunites with Sandy.

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Thanatology - 27 juin 2021