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Movie Review: OMG! Oh My God

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To start off, I have to say I did not know what to expect in the movie.  I knew it is about a atheist man who sues God.  This story is based on a Gujarati play "Kanji v/s Kanji", which is insprired from an Australian movie called "A Man who sued God".

This movie tells a story of a shopkeeper who is an atheist, where as his wife is a deeply religious person. Kanji is a shopkeeper who would sell statues of Gods by lying how old they may be or that they were dug up during excavation etc.  Anyhow, one day, earthquake hits Mumbai and only his shop gets destroyed.  People start blaming his non-belief in God for this destruction.

Kanji had an insurance policy on the shop and was happy that he would not lose any money due to losing his shop.  However, the insurance policy has stated (and I am sure we are familiar) that it doesn't cover any "Acts of God".  Kanji decides to sue God and court accepts his case.

More than the story of the movie itself, what was important was that how the movie looks at the fake Godmen, how it shows the gullibility of the common man.  More importantly, the message of the movie is that we have become "God Fearing" instead of "God Loving".  We have also fallen into this tradition of pouring milk over a shiva lingam, for example.  Is it not waste of milk that can be used to feed some poor?  Do we do it because Shiva may get upset with us?

My take:  I do not believe in too many wasteful traditions.  I tend to believe that if you help someone else, that is equivalent to acknowledging God within that person. You don't need to go to temples to show your spirituality or religious leanings.

This is a wonderful movie.  You may not agree with a few things in the movie but that doesn't take away from the fact this movie pushes walls of religion, which we in India consider so sacred and people don't want to talk about.  BTW, Akshay Kumar as Krishna who comes to earth is wonderful! Watch it!!

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