Hello everyone today I'll be discussing about the movie which contains sensibility like religion. There are many movies like Pk, My Name is Khan, omg and many more.
👉I'll be discussing on the movie omg, how it talks about the sensitive topic like religion.
Overview of the movie:
OMG is a story of Kanji a protagonist who discovers his faith through the mishaps and unfortunate occurrences of his life. He undergoes a transition of atheism to belief in God. This transition is done not with the ordinary events of life but with the supernatural event of God coming in person. He loves his life and his family. His business is that of selling idols of various gods. He makes fun of these as he buys them for a very cheap price and fools the people by selling them for large sums, by telling them that how it was unearthed hundreds of years ago in famous temples. He is literally laughing all the way to the bank, when the Gods decide to reprove him. Kanjilal is a self-proclaimed protagonist and an atheist. But his own wife maintains a small temple space and believes in the power of prayers and fasting. Most of his scorn is expressed through witty wordplay and unenthusiastic conclusions. Much to all-round horror, he drags his family off a religious function which instigated many saffron religious leaders. But Kanji bhai decides to make a fight of it, and demands divine justice, and that's what the rest of it is about. Although it talks of God it can be categorized into commercial. The climax message is to perceive God as love rather than a dictator whom to be afraid of.
Sociological Analysis:
The basic problem of faith and reason is well portrayed in the movie. Though it deals with religion in general the more focus is on Hinduism. The values of new age spirituality are shown with its positive as well as negative ideologies. Some principles are morally good but the devotion and rituals are at stake in this movie. There is no right reason shown for religions and rituals. Thus it may lead the mass to the misunderstanding the meaningless to worship. The courtroom scene where Kanji bhai takes on the lawyer and spiritual gurus and priests is hilarious and insightful. Same as the television show where he is the guest.
Education through Film:
God must be given prime importance but how do we give is the main lesson to be learnt from this movie. God is a personal choice and open to interpretation. His origins are undefined and range from mystical to scientific. He is someone with whom we are deeply conditioned to have faith in and never to question. Religion is man-made. Its original purpose was, guiding the progress of spiritual conscience, before its ideals were completely distorted to set up a dogmatic rulebook of blind devotion, intimidating myths and ritualistic lifestyle. OMG-O My God creates a hard-hitting premise where it leads protagonist decides to dispute this rigid system by dragging God and the business of religion to court. The newly sprouting godmen and godwomen are portrayed mostly as unauthentic. Since the spiritual gurus are getting prominence in this century it could be a help for the people to choose the right and the authentic ones.
Critical Evaluation:
Being a commercial movie the primary aim of the film O My God should be of earning money and yet this has a message to be delivered to all who believe in God. In this present scenario of rising conservatism and religious extremism this film has a daring approach to religious practices. Could a filmmaker be brave enough to take on all those thousands of outraged souls who would be shown up for what they indulge in daily doing: all sorts of immoral things and then demanding expiation from their deities?
Justification:
It must be true that the whole credit for the movie goes to the terrific Paresh Rawal who takes almost the whole attention of the audience all along the movie. But there is no sign of character fatigue or repetition. Armed with superb writing and a keen understanding of Kanji's convictions, the actor grabs his viewer's attention from start to finish. But the end is taken by Akshay who comes as a Hindu diety – Krishna, in modern attire. Oh My God strives to seek metaphors between Kanji's absence of faith and an eager struggle to expose the ugly face of the ridiculously rich godmen and their widespread political connections. All of this, of course, is very effective and so the message is both relevant and entertaining.
The questions which can be raised are:
1. Do idols have god in itself, that leads people to worship?
2. To which extent does religious institutes be allowed to profit from people's faith?
3. Does miracles impact our decision or actions?
4. Can such divine matters be bothered by court?
These are some questions which were raised in my mind during evaluating the movie.
Here below👇in this vidoe there are some arguments raised in the court against the god.
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