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Arjun Rampal- When I do Om Shanti Om, I hope we are not disappointing our fans or audience. but with the overwhelming response, I feel really special to be a part of this project. To play a negative role for the first time, at starting everyone felt a little nervous but what I learned doing the role is that No risk No profit, and as an actor you have to try to do new things for your own growth. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone (in her Hindi film debut), Shreyas Talpade, Kirron Kher, and Arjun Rampal. The story follows Om Prakash Makhija (Khan), an obscure 1970s actor, who dies in a suspicious on-set fire involving his crush, well-known yesteryears superstar Shanti Priya (Padukone), and is reincarnated in the present day as superstar Om Kapoor, seeking to exact revenge on the