Om Shanti Om is a 2007 Bollywood masala film directed by Farah Khan and starring Shah Rukh Khan (in dual roles) and Deepika Padukone in her Hindi-film debut. The movie opens in the 1970s, following Om Prakash Makhija, a hopeful junior artist deeply in love with the glamorous superstar Shanti Priya. After Shanti is secretly married to the unscrupulous producer Mukesh Mehra and then murdered on a film set fire, while Om dies trying to save her. Om is reincarnated thirty years later as Om Kapoor, a successful Bollywood actor, who gradually recovers memories of his past. He plots revenge by staging a new film—also titled Om Shanti Om—casting a Shanti look-alike to provoke Mukesh into a public confession. Through melodrama, musical spectacle, and cinematic homage, the film culminates in poetic justice as Om (with help from Shanti’s spirit) exposes Mukesh and avenges the past.