OHH MY GOD

OMG Oh My God!

Genre: Comedy

Director: Umesh Shukla

Cast: Paresh Rawal, Akshay

Kumar, Nidhi Subbaiah, Govind Namdev, Mithun Chakraborty,

Om Puri, Poonam Jhawer,

Mahesh Manjreakar


Being screened at theatres near you

KATHMANDU: Who would you seek compensation from if your house was destroyed because of natural disasters? Who should be responsible for causing them?

OMG Oh My God to an extent answers these questions. While questioning blind faith of people in religion, it tries to attack religious malpractices.

An atheist Kanji Lalji Mehta (Paresh Rawal) is a shrewd businessman who values money and business as his true gods. He lives in Chor Bazar of Mumbai with his devout wife where he has a shop selling statues of gods. But one day his shop is destroyed in an earthquake, leaving everyone convinced that God brought the disaster on his family. He laughs them off and Kanjibhai goes to the insurance company to claim compensation. However, the insurance company denies compensation saying the destruction was an act of God. Finally this desperate man files a case against God where godmen of different religions are summoned to the court to answer him. Meanwhile, God — Krishna Basudev Yadav from Gokul (Akshya Kumar) — comes down to the earth to his house.

With a different plotline from the existing Bollywood films, this movie is said to be based on Gujrati play Kanji Virudh Kanji and an adaptation of 2001 comedy The Man Who Sued God.

Unlike other movies that would have gods doing wonders, this movie though with a few moments of God’s chamatkar is primarily based on debate of proving the existence of God.

Rawal and Kumar as atheist and God respectively, create good chemistry. It is Rawal who shines throughout the movie with his balanced performance. He makes you laugh with his witty dialogues and logical comments, but never goes overboard.

Unlike his conventional roles as action hero or romantic lover, Kumar is different this time — as a suited-booted modern day Lord Krishna with sudarshan chakra in his hand, he will allure you. His ever smiling face and disciplined performance is fun to watch.

Liladhar, the godman is a character performed by Mithun Chakrobarty that deserves appalauds. He has very less dialogues to deliver, but as an effiminate saint always plotting to use religion to make money, his expressions and hand gestures are more than enough to say what he wants.

Prabhu Deva and Sonakshi Sinha appear in the song Go Govinda and they have already impressed everyone with their awesome dance moves. Another number Dhoondta Hai is melodious.

The credit of perfect comic timing, right selection of characters and good presentation of the subject matter definitely goes to director Umesh Sukla. But had he left the movie in its pace instead of tending to be quite didactic in some parts after interval, the audience would take the message of ‘avoiding blind faith towards religion’ and ‘god is within ourselves’ without being irritated.

Hats off to all the cast and crew for daring to be part of such genuine yet sensitive religious issue in such an interesting way.

A must watch for both — atheists and devotees!