Writer Mayur Puri has said that Om Shanti Om 2 could be a profitable project for Shah Rukh Khan and for the makers, raising the question of whether a sequel to the 2007 hit is on the cards. Puri, who wrote the dialogues for the original film, shared his view as Om Shanti Om completed 19 years since its release on 9 November 2007. The Om Shanti Om 2 talk is Puri’s own assessment, and no sequel has been announced by the makers, the director or the stars.
Om Shanti Om was directed by Farah Khan and co-written by Puri and Mushtaq Shiekh, with Gauri Khan producing under Red Chillies Entertainment. The film starred Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as Om Prakash Makhija, a junior film artist in 1977, and Om Kapoor, a rich superstar in 2007. Deepika Padukone played Shantipriya, a film actress secretly married to producer Mukesh Mehra, played by Arjun Rampal, and also her lookalike Sandy.
The film was a blockbuster on its release and it marked Deepika Padukone’s Hindi film debut. It was also the most successful Hindi language film of 2007, and its songs and dialogues have stayed in public memory ever since. The Om Shanti Om 2 question has come up often in the years since, and Puri’s comment is the latest answer to it, though it is a view about the sequel’s prospects rather than news of a film being made.
Om Shanti Om 2 and what Mayur Puri said
Puri has been speaking about the film during its 19th anniversary, and his remarks have covered the writing as well as the sequel. He told the story of the Filmfare Award speech delivered by Shah Rukh Khan’s character in the first half of the film, and said he already had the speech ready when Farah Khan briefed him that it had to be life-affirming and iconic. He said, “I told her, ‘I already have the speech. I’d written it years ago for myself, just in case I ever won a Filmfare Award. So now, if I ever do win, I’ll have to come up with a new one, because that speech now belongs to Om.” The Om Shanti Om 2 remark sits alongside those memories, and it reads as a writer weighing the commercial case for a return to the story.
Puri got the job on the film after Farah Khan asked him to write a few lines for a look test with Deepika Padukone, and the “ek chutki sindoor” dialogue he wrote that day became his way into the project. The whole film was written in 42 days, according to Puri, and Farah Khan had written the first draft in two weeks, after an idea she had noted in her diary. The dialogues Puri wrote, including the “itni shiddat” speech, are still quoted by fans, and the film’s mix of reincarnation drama, Bollywood nostalgia and revenge gave him a career milestone.
Om Shanti Om 2 and the view of director Farah Khan
Farah Khan has been cautious about a sequel in the past. In an interview marking 10 years of the film, she said she did not think a sequel was possible, because the story had ended where it had to end and she could not see how to take it further or make it better. She said a sequel could work for Happy New Year or Main Hoon Na, but Om Shanti Om felt complete to her. In 2019 she joked on Instagram about a dream cast for a sequel, naming Anil Kapoor and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Deepika Padukone replied to the post. The Om Shanti Om 2 idea has stayed alive in jokes and in fan talk rather than in a production plan.
Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone have worked together many times since the film, in Chennai Express, Happy New Year, Pathaan and Jawan, and they are now working together again on King, their sixth film. The pair’s record together is part of why a sequel keeps being raised, and Puri’s comment gives that talk a commercial shape.
Om Shanti Om 2 and what would need to happen next
For an Om Shanti Om 2 to move from talk to a real film, the makers would need a story that matches the original, a director willing to take it on, and dates from Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. None of that has been confirmed, and Puri’s comment does not amount to an announcement. The film completed 19 years on 9 November 2026, and the Om Shanti Om 2 question remains open, with the writer’s view that a sequel could be profitable sitting alongside the director’s earlier doubt about whether the story can go further.