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Om Shanti Om at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

admin September 6th, 2008

Bollywood casts its spell on everyone and even the Beijing Olympics fell for its charm. And interestingly, it was not the Indians, who took Bollywood to Beijing, but beautiful Israeli gymnasts, who played out their final round to the beats of a ‘Dhoom Tana’ track from ‘Om Shanti Om’.

What’s more, Bollywood made an appearance in a sport where India has never participated. The Israeli team participating in the Rhythmic Gymnastics were the ones who brought Bollywood music to the fore. The gymnasts Katarina Pisetsky, Veronika Vitenberg, Rahel Vigdozchik, Maria Savenkov and Olena Dvornichenko played out their final round to the beats of a Bollywood hit.

The song sequence from ‘Om Shanti Om’, featured on Shah Rukh and Deepika Padukone was one of the greatest hits of last year. Even Farah Khan, the director of ‘OSO’ had no clue on how the sizzling number reached Olympics. But she was reportedly “very excited” over this.

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