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Akshay Kumar’s production venture OMG Oh My God has opened to good reviews from the critics. It’s script and solid performances from the star cast has found appreciation from most of the critics. While Times Of India calls it a movie with a message “Importantly though, in a nation obsessed with taweezes and tonsures, fasts and fasaads, the symbolic over the sensible, OMG conveys a serious message this festive season – God is to be found in human beings. And, rather like Hindi films of an earlier age, it does so in a light and unusual way.” (Times Of India, 3.5 stars) ; Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama says the movie is thought provoking “On the whole, OMG – OH MY GOD! is a thought-provoking adaptation of a massively successful play. A movie tackling a sensitive and an untouched subject matter, it will find its share of advocates and adversaries, but the social message the movie conveys comes across loud and clear and that’s one of the prime reasons why OMG – OH MY GOD! becomes a deserving watch” (Bollywood Hungama, 3.5 stars).
Paresh Rawal as expected has performed very well in his portrayal of Kanjibhai. Here’s what the critics wrote about him and his performance in OMG Oh My God.
“As long as the accomplished Paresh Rawal, playing a wise-cracking agnostic who takes on a grotesque band of religious bigots in a bizarre legal battle to prove that God is a figment of mankind’s imagination, is on the screen, OMG passes muster, and then some more.” (NDTV Movies)
“Paresh Rawal manages to balance the act perfectly, and like a magician, juggles the premises of logic and religions – according to his convenience, and how!” (Zee News)
“Still there’s much to enjoy here, including many of the witty dialogues, and particularly Paresh Rawal’s robust performance as the stubborn non-believer on a determined mission. (Rajeev Masand)
“Paresh Rawal is acknowledged as a supremely accomplished and consummate actor of our times. The veteran carries the film on his shoulders and executes this challenging character with candor. He’s the show-stopper, the scene stealer.” (Taran Adarsh)
Akshay Kumar has also been appreciated for his role as Lord Krishna. But the bad news for the makers is that the film has opened to a dull response across the country. The film needs to pick up over the weekend in order to do well at the box office. The positive reviews might just help Oh My God in doing so!
