Om Shanti Om’s crew members have realised the benefits of multi-tasking, thanks to Farah Khan. After all the great time that the crew members had on the film’s sets, Farah decided to hand out roles to the film’s lyricist Javed Akhtar, screenplay writer Mushtaq Sheikh, music composer Vishal Dadlani (of the Vishak-Shekhar duo), cameraman, art director, costume designer, executive producer, assistant directors, dialogue writers and costume designer. Even Shah Rukh’s bodyguard has a role in the film.

Since the film happens over a few decades starting from the ’70s, all the crewmembers simply portray themselves. “I really saved a lot of money!” says Farah with a laugh.

There’s great news from the sets of Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om. Farah has now roped in Sridevi and Abhishek Bachchan to do cameos in the film.

The script has a track that will feature Sridevi and Abhishek Bachchan together. The story goes that Sridevi was earlier slated to feature in the lavish title track alongside Jeetendra. However, Sridevi couldn’t feature in the song due to time constraints. That’s when Farah decided to have her in another scene. “We love Sri and she just had to be a part of the film,” says Farah. The scenes will be shot next month.

Abhishek too will have an interesting role in Om Shanti Om. Farah is yet to finalise the details as the actor has been travelling for a while. “I’m going to see Abhishek as soon as he is back,” she says.

Farah had also requested Amitabh Bachchan to make an appearance in the title track of the film. But, he eventually opted out as he was extremely busy with the Abhi-Ash wedding at that time.

If that is not enough, Farah is in talks with Shakira (and this time for real) as she is yet to film two songs for Om Shanti Om. The Latino pop star has a choc-o-bloc schedule till September. The temptations of having the ‘Hips don’t lie’ star for Om Shanti Om may cause a delay in the film’s schedule. Farah intends to stick to her initial plans of wrapping the songs by August as the film will have an October-November release.

Set in Bollywood of the ’70s, Om Shanti Om traces the journey of Shah Rukh Khan who starts of as a humble junior artiste and goes on to become a big film star.