Movie : OM
Year : 1995
Banner : Poornima Enterprises
Cast : Shivarajkumar, Prema, Srishanthi, G V Shivanand, Seetharam, Honnavalli Krishna, Harish Rai, Kote Prabhakar, Sadhu Kokila
Music : Hamsalekha
Lyrics : Hamsalekha
Story-Screenplay : Upendra
Direction : Upendra
Producer : Smt Parvathamma Rajkumar
Genre : Crime Drama
Runtime : 150 min
Release Date : May 19, 1995

DVD Features:

• Anamorphic Widescreen Enhanced (16:9) DVD
• High Definition Video
• English Subtitles
• Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
• DVD Text
• Jacket Picture
• NTSC - All Regions
• Interactive Menus of Songs & Scenes for Easy Access

Awards

• Karnataka State Film Awards 1995-96
  
• Best Actor – Shivarajkumar
• Best Actress – Prema
• Best Screenplay – Upendra
• Best Cinematographer – B C Gowrishankar

Plot

Movie begins with a journalist interviewing and publishing the stories of Bangalore gangsters presenting the circumstances which lead them to become so. ‘Om’, is a book which she authored and she gives it to three gangsters which tells the story of a gangster - Satya alias Satyamurthy(Shivaraj Kumar), coming from a poor family, is a soft spoken guy studying in a college. He is made fun of in the college and is a subject of constant humiliation. Madhuri(Prema) is being woed by a man whose brother is a gangster. Madhuri does not care and makes Satya fall in love with her. Unable to bear this, the man brings his brother to settle score with Satya. Madhuri turns to Satya, provokes him to take on the gangster. Satya in rage beats up the gang and Madhuri makes sure that Satya gets arrested by the police. Satya gets released and comes to know that Madhuri is taking revenge on him – circumstances had lead Satya to lie in the court to save his family, as result of which Madhuri’s brother gets convicted and commits suicide. Satya is not accepted in his house as well and the only door open to him is to join the underworld. But he still loves Madhuri even though she does not love him. In the latter part, Madhuri is faced with similar situation as of Satya and realizes her mistake and wants Satya to come out of underworld. But the underworld who Satya is a part refuses to leave him. Well that was story being read by three gangsters who realize that the last pages of the book 'Om' are missing and eager to know what happened to Satya in the end and meet the author. The journalist takes them to Satya, who had left underworld is now handicapped and runs a small hotel and is happy in his life. Film ends saying how one can never be happy as a gangster and the three gangsters promise to put down their arms as well.