Who says you need a big name and a huge budget to pull off a hit? Paresh Rawal as Kanji Lalji Mehta in OMG, reinforces our faith in the fact that even today good cinema simply means good cinema.
In a world where conformity is regarded as virtue, Kanji Lalji dares to reason with blind followership. As the movie matures through a series of fantastical events, for example the out-of-the-blue-moon earthquake that struck only his shop, almost vindictively if I may say, or the suing of God for insurance money, one slowly starts to see the whole purpose behind this social satire. Intelligently curbed dialogues where Kanji argues with common religious practises of donating money at the mandir daan-peti and not to the needy, or the phoolon ka chaddar at the dargah instead of a piece of clothing for the underprivileged, or the millions of candles in front of Jesus against one candle to fight the darkness in someone's home; holds a mirror, as it were, up to the corrupt face of the society we all have created progressively. As Mithun Chakraborty, in a strangely villainous role rightfully puts it, this is the face of God-fearing people, not God-loving.
The image of modern day Krishna in a three piece suit and tie, riding a two-wheeler vahan was interesting, as was the little peacock-feather key ring in his right hand that symbolised the sudarshan chakra, yet at some level you could see the real Akshay Kumar behind Krishna Vasudev Yadav, from Gokul. There was sadly little connection between the actor and the character. The performances of Mithun Chakraborty as Leeladhar, Poonam Jhawer as Gopi Maiyya and Govind Namdeo as Siddeshwar Maharaj were impeccable, although I didn't quite understand why Namdeo had weird fits of anger. Nikhil Ratnaparkhi as Kanji's trusted sidekick was outstanding and was the perfect example of The Common Man!
On the whole, it was a three hour well spent. I would suggest people to go... go... go for it at least once.
In a world where conformity is regarded as virtue, Kanji Lalji dares to reason with blind followership. As the movie matures through a series of fantastical events, for example the out-of-the-blue-moon earthquake that struck only his shop, almost vindictively if I may say, or the suing of God for insurance money, one slowly starts to see the whole purpose behind this social satire. Intelligently curbed dialogues where Kanji argues with common religious practises of donating money at the mandir daan-peti and not to the needy, or the phoolon ka chaddar at the dargah instead of a piece of clothing for the underprivileged, or the millions of candles in front of Jesus against one candle to fight the darkness in someone's home; holds a mirror, as it were, up to the corrupt face of the society we all have created progressively. As Mithun Chakraborty, in a strangely villainous role rightfully puts it, this is the face of God-fearing people, not God-loving.
The image of modern day Krishna in a three piece suit and tie, riding a two-wheeler vahan was interesting, as was the little peacock-feather key ring in his right hand that symbolised the sudarshan chakra, yet at some level you could see the real Akshay Kumar behind Krishna Vasudev Yadav, from Gokul. There was sadly little connection between the actor and the character. The performances of Mithun Chakraborty as Leeladhar, Poonam Jhawer as Gopi Maiyya and Govind Namdeo as Siddeshwar Maharaj were impeccable, although I didn't quite understand why Namdeo had weird fits of anger. Nikhil Ratnaparkhi as Kanji's trusted sidekick was outstanding and was the perfect example of The Common Man!
On the whole, it was a three hour well spent. I would suggest people to go... go... go for it at least once.
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