Om Shanti Om (2007) Review: Farah Khan’s Reincarnation Love Letter to Hindi Cinema

Is Om Shanti Om worth watching?

Yes — especially if you care about how Bollywood talks about itself. It earns a 63% Celluloid Score from editorial rating (76), Metascore (60), Letterboxd (3.5/5), and IMDb (6.8/10). The 85% audience snapshot is display-only and is not in the composite. Hindi titles get our reliability pass: Letterboxd and Metascore are weighted above IMDb so fan campaigns cannot inflate the composite.

Farah Khan’s Hindi spectacular runs 169 minutes. We file it on the Hindi hub as the other great SRK-2007 event beside Chak De! India: one a sports sermon, this one a reincarnation musical that treats Film City as a haunted house.

Junior artist, superstar, ghost

Om Prakash Makhija dies in a studio fire; Om Kapoor is born into the industry that killed him. Deepika Padukone’s dual role (Shanti and the lookalike) is the film’s actual special effect; Arjun Rampal’s producer-villain is camp on purpose. The cameo reel in “Deewangi Deewangi” is a phone book of Hindi cinema waving at itself.

Camp vs craft

Letterboxd 3.5 and Metascore 60 keep the composite at 63% after the Bollywood pass — a beloved pop film, not a hidden masterpiece. That is the correct category.

Verdict

Watch it for Deepika’s arrival and Farah’s joke-dense staging. Then try Jawan to see how SRK’s later mass cinema dropped the wink. Movie page.