Why I like this movie?
First, OMG makes its point without fuss and without going over the top. Provoking as the subject is, the film was clearly not intentioned to insult faith. It is a script idea that could have easily gone wrong. Films adapted from plays often tend to get too melodramatic. OMG avoids that trap.
Secondly, the film works for its lead pair. Akshay and Paresh share crackling chemistry as God and the man who will finally learn to accept the concept of God as a positive presence in life. Together, the two actors lend the film its biggest USP.
More importantly, this strengthens my belief in what I mean as ‘God’. Through a comedy path, but the essence of this movie or the message is what I have been following. Though people call that as rebel, but this is what I think should be the way of life.
Interestingly this is what exactly all our philosophies preach, if we notice India is only country where we have a belief of seeing god in everything. As Krishna details out in Gita, there is god in everything, in mountains, rivers, sages, letters, flowers, in everything. But sadly as the time passed this message was misinterpreted as we started fearing god rather than worshiping.
I firmly believe, if my god gets angry only because I didn’t salute him or worship him or didn’t offer a prayer, then that is not a god. Or if my god gets so pleased by my offering that he/she will give me everything in life, than that is not the god. Though different characters this movie gives that message.
It’s completely true that the god has become a means to business for many people, who don’t even understand the meaning of god or his/her message. They all point out to the rituals one must do in order to please god. On the contrary all the rituals have great significance towards our psychology.
Infact Indian philosophy is nothing but a psychology!!
One simple example, many suggest doing gayatri prayer in the morning will enhance the meaning of life and it gives richness. Let’s analyze this, if we look at the meaning of Gayatri prayer, it says ‘let me pray gods to increase the peace of the universe through everyone’s health and prosperity’. What a noble thought? We will feel relaxed if we have this universe belief and thus we get our meaning of life.
Similarly, rituals suggested coming around banyan tree will solve the problems if you are expecting a child and having difficulty. Science today proves that the oxygen output of banyan tree is more than that of normal trees and that actually helps to conceive. But, over the centuries we forgot the meaning of it and started worshiping the tree without understanding the reason why we are doing it, thereby giving an opportunity to others to loot us.
This movie establishes my belief and that’s why I liked it.
May god bless all of us!
First, OMG makes its point without fuss and without going over the top. Provoking as the subject is, the film was clearly not intentioned to insult faith. It is a script idea that could have easily gone wrong. Films adapted from plays often tend to get too melodramatic. OMG avoids that trap.
Secondly, the film works for its lead pair. Akshay and Paresh share crackling chemistry as God and the man who will finally learn to accept the concept of God as a positive presence in life. Together, the two actors lend the film its biggest USP.
More importantly, this strengthens my belief in what I mean as ‘God’. Through a comedy path, but the essence of this movie or the message is what I have been following. Though people call that as rebel, but this is what I think should be the way of life.
Interestingly this is what exactly all our philosophies preach, if we notice India is only country where we have a belief of seeing god in everything. As Krishna details out in Gita, there is god in everything, in mountains, rivers, sages, letters, flowers, in everything. But sadly as the time passed this message was misinterpreted as we started fearing god rather than worshiping.
I firmly believe, if my god gets angry only because I didn’t salute him or worship him or didn’t offer a prayer, then that is not a god. Or if my god gets so pleased by my offering that he/she will give me everything in life, than that is not the god. Though different characters this movie gives that message.
It’s completely true that the god has become a means to business for many people, who don’t even understand the meaning of god or his/her message. They all point out to the rituals one must do in order to please god. On the contrary all the rituals have great significance towards our psychology.
Infact Indian philosophy is nothing but a psychology!!
One simple example, many suggest doing gayatri prayer in the morning will enhance the meaning of life and it gives richness. Let’s analyze this, if we look at the meaning of Gayatri prayer, it says ‘let me pray gods to increase the peace of the universe through everyone’s health and prosperity’. What a noble thought? We will feel relaxed if we have this universe belief and thus we get our meaning of life.
Similarly, rituals suggested coming around banyan tree will solve the problems if you are expecting a child and having difficulty. Science today proves that the oxygen output of banyan tree is more than that of normal trees and that actually helps to conceive. But, over the centuries we forgot the meaning of it and started worshiping the tree without understanding the reason why we are doing it, thereby giving an opportunity to others to loot us.
This movie establishes my belief and that’s why I liked it.
May god bless all of us!
