It seems that the blow that Akshay had with 'Joker' is very soon healed as his next movie 'OMG - Oh My God' does the job what was missing in Joker. The super hit pair of Akshay and Paresh Rawal is given credit for the movie, which might have been otherwise a weaker plot to discuss. The movie talks about the importance of loving the god you believe instead of fearing the god and doing the rituals in the same fear.
Oh My God is the story of a shopkeeper Kanjibhai (Paresh Rawal), who sells antique idols of God at triple times its original price. A tornado destroys his antique store and then he decides to take God to court. When he claims for an insurance reimbursment the company denies this mentioning the mishap as an act of god. Which makes Kanjibhai file a case against all famous saints and gurus - and thereby god.
As Kanjibhai directs all his ire at God and His "collection agents" – in the courtroom, he describes cash-rich temples as business establishments and their portly priests as salesmen – Lord Krishna decides to step in and do something about the mess that has enveloped his life.
The movie does have a lot of let downs and a series of overacting scenes by co-actors.
Govind Namdeo as a saffron-clad godman is the top among the list followed by Poonam Jhawer, whose intention was much less but turned out to be a worst of performances. Again this is the reason why Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar is marked as the rescuers. Most of the one liners between them gets in the claps running, but this doesn't mean that every one of this was accepted with a smile!
Oh My God Movie Page
The movie had a court case filed by the Women Congress in Gujarat for hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus. But this case was dismissed without further proceedings and the makers also added in a disclaimer to soften its approach towards the comical situations that were being made: OMG disavows any intention of hurting the sentiments of "any individual, community, sect or religion"
Mithun Chakraborty would have also shone better if there wasn't some of the sequences in the movie. The production of Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar wouldn't be a miss as Joker did.
All said and done, the movie is a mix of entertainment and some of the real life drama. Inspired from the famous Gujrati play 'Kanji Virrudh Kanji' the makers have done justice to what was to be portrayed, but if you question if this was the correct way, then we would say it would have been lot better, and should have taken the movie to a better level.
- Unknown Updated at: Saturday, September 29, 2012
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