Story

Kanji, Paresh Rawal, the primary character of the movie is an atheist who runs the business of selling idols of god. He hence has to find ways to cash out the beliefs of the believers with his fake tales and boost his business. His wife, a believer and a person who fears the God is disgusted by the antics of her husband who tries to exploit people on their weakness and fear. Obviously, the God is also not pleased with him. In this scenario an earthquake shatters and brings down his shop to ramshackle condition. Kanji however doesn't appear to be very troubled since he has got the place covered under insurance; well planned like most atheists. Insurance companies however have fine print in all their insurances and this case is no different. They point out to him that this is an act of God which is not covered by his insurance. Kanji cannot claim “bull”ocks since he used the name of God for his business.

With no choices left he decides confront the Almighty, Omnipresent, Omnipotent; the God. He files a case against Him accusing him of destruction of property and hence fine-able. But, Where does He live? Desperate Kanji goes to the God-men who claimed that they could talk to God constantly and delivers his petition against them.

Enter the priests, Mithun Chakraborthy, the fiery Siddheshwar Maharaj (Govind Namdeo) and eye-candy Gopi Maiyya (Poonam Jhawer). Kanji is now has to deal with two problems; Proving His existence and proving that he is responsible for the damage occurred.

Bhagwaan (Akshay Kumar) makes his appearance. Can Kanji win his petition, will God teach him a lesson, the soft way as he usually does, converting Kanji to a devout businessman.

Nothing is free these days; if you are further interested make haste for the box office.

Analysis :

Though not an original story, it brings the Gujarati play written by Bhavesh Mandalia to the screens. Definitely a movie far away from the hackneyed movies that have droning plots or outright repulsive storyline. Umesh Shukla has made a more than decent job of bringing the play to the big screens. Being the main character, Paresh Rawal makes his appearance in almost all the frames. But we all know what to expect from Paresh Rawal; he only gets better by the day. With several witty dialogues and arguments he never ceases to amuse you on screen and also they are logically flawless too.

The part where the movie comes down to the tracks parallel to Mahabharata, Charioteer Krishna (our Akshay Kumar) addressing his warrior Arjuna (Paresh Rawal in this instance) is a great analogy. The movie make you think and seek answers to several questions you put to yourself.

The concept of God-men in the movie is well directed. However, the movie strays away from the main theme like a goat with no shepherd on a mountain. The story becomes more about false God-men than about the very existence of God. Though the last part is a sound conclusion to the movie, Kanji's dialogues seem excogitated.

Script and direction are not to be questioned, for they are above par. Amar Mohile’s background music is good. Go Go Govinda and Mere Nishaan songs are neat while others do not please you as much; Himesh and team could have tried harder. Sethu Sriram’s cinematography is nice. Editing could have been better at places but no complaints, people. Special Effects as always in Indian movies, but for a few, are choppy. Trained eyes cannot feel comfortable.

Performance :

Paresh Rawal, enough said. He has never failed with his action, regardless of sloppy story lines and poor dialogues at times too. For a man who could carve the ornate wooden sculptures with rocks you can expect what he would do with the him the chisel. His negative role is not a hindrance for you to stop clapping at his dialogues delivered with utmost ease and miles away from depicting hints of being forged. Akshay Kumar is fine in his God role but the writers could have made his role even better trimming off a few unnecessary parts. Mithun Chakraborty as one of the stereotypical God-men is near perfect. His “broken-wrist” act can make you squirm. Govind Namdeo could have stayed on the ground with his saffron clothes but his action has gone a bit overboard, not unnecessarily though. Poonam Jhawer has a minimalistic role which does what it was intended to do, put a grin on your face at times. With a few parts of the God-Men's scripting excerpts from the lives of the today's fake babas, the laughs are doubled.

Mahesh Manjrekar is good as the lawyer. Sonakshi Sinha and Prabhu Deva are fun in their guest appearances.

Final Word: Definitely have some fun with your family. Fiinallyyy, one movie where you don't have to cover your kid's eyes at any time in the movie. The novel concept should be appreciated to promote directors to go for new and not time-worn love stories of which we already had enough.