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Bollywood can be categorized as the formula industry meaning if mass like one story and make it hit you will see almost dozens film with same plot and theme. This happens even in Hollywood so the year 80-90 was time of action movies for bollywood; we seen movies like 'Boxer', 'Baazi' 'Karz', 'Namak Halal'...on same year.

Talking about Baazi its a friendship, sacrifice, revenger, romantic, action all formula movie. Dependable Dharmendra did a good job like small guy from village Mithun. A scene where Mithun sits for Namaaz in between action sequence and villain is trying to cut him into pieces and Dharmendra tries to protect him when he (Mithun) lifts his hand to pray and see Dharmedra's blood is done well. Mithun is shown very religious in this movie. The chemistry between Rekha and Dharmedra is good and also between Mithun and Ranjeeta; Ranjeeta owns a small hotel in the village where Mithun also come and their screen chemistry is portrayed very well. Dharmedra loose his family when Shakti kapoor gang kills his wife Rekha and wants to take revenge and with the help of Mithun he nails the killers; half time of the movie revolves around the Dharmedra revenge. The action scenes are good as usual for a Raj N Sippy movies and the story line is not that rare but the way it is done is good to watch. Music is overall good and a song between Rekha and Dharmedra is quite memorable. This movie also shows the Hindu-Muslim friendship and how one is ready to sacrifice his life for other.

All I can say is quite good movie to watch at least once. I will rate it 7 out 10 overall.

First of all I am not a fan of Shahrukh Khan and sometime admitting this fact is considered to be offensive; anyways lets talk about Om Shanti Om. The movie taken me by surprise; I had no expectation still brought DVD to add it to my new Bollywood Movies collection and started watching it on weekend sipping tea before going to bath ...I was just waiting for that usual bore moment to stop the movie and take a shower....but I surprisingly completed the whole movie before shower. There are some moments where it feels like dragging but still movie has great music and that let you remain seated. Story is typical incarnation stuff that we seen in yesteryear movies; even old dialogs used in the movie looks very funny. Shahrukh has done a tremendous job and I liked his energy in the movie; especially the South Indian actor role he done was well made and shows the much misunderstood lighter side of it. Other actors also performed well like the main actress Deepika and Shreyas Talpade is great. Arjun Rampal is good as usual.

Had there been new story when all the movie set and costumes are shown of 70s then it would not have been a good movie....so I think people watching the movie knew from start what is coming next and that is the strength of the movie and Farah Khan did the great job by showing us the things differently; the Manoj Kumar part was not funny though. The twist or lack of there of was taken from Madhumati and make sense for a good ending...but second part is not made in style and the revenge element is visible enough to eat up the whole humor and we knew where the movie is moving now...

Still great movie, old style set and more closer look to the life of people behind and front of the camera....I would give this movie 6 out of 10 overall and can say that it is watchable even if you don't want to spend sometime before shower..