Three months of publicity OD and the verdicts are finally out. First reviews coming out for both movies.

Om Shanti Om.

Mustafa gives it a thumbs-up:

[...]does Om Shanti Om lives up to the expectations? Was Main Hoon Naa a fluke? The answer is yes Om Shanti Om lives upto the expectation and we can easily that it even surpasses Main Hoon Naa[...]

Variety Magazine (?) is slightly circumspect:

With the hunky Khan onscreen almost the whole time, and seriously overdoing his mature-boyish charm in the first half, the movie also requires considerable tolerance of the King’s limited range.

And the dramatic Taran Adarsh goes as overboard as the publicity:

Cut the crap, cut the gyan-baazi, cut the will-it-won’t-it work naatak. Shah Rukh Khan and Farah Khan’s OM SHANTI OM is a true-blue masala entertainer. If MAIN HOON NA was a chauka, this one hits a sixer!

Sawaariya
The Bolly Blog gives it 2.5 Hairy Anil Kapoors (no I’m not kidding).

So much potential with this film. It could of been a beautifully moving film, but the lack of depth of characters and screenplay prevents viewers from forming a real attachment to the emotion of the movie.

Over at PFC, Ritu sums up

Saawariya feels like you’re watching a play taped on HD. There’s too much focus on the ‘look’. Saawariya’s undoubtedly a well packaged box. But big box, small wonder is the outcome of Saawariya.

At Rediff, Raja Sen does a Taran Adarsh

It’s hard to fathom what Bhansali expects anybody to like in this film. With close to a dozen songs assaulting us once every seven minutes, on average, there is no room for the narrative to flow.

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