OHH MY GOD- Don’t miss it
Bhagwan deta hai par Dubey nahi leta hai. When I saw the poster of this film that I didn’t know existed , that’s the line that caught me. I wanted to see it , and that’s the first film I chose to see amongst the four releases today. The film took me completely by surprise. I expected it to be all things funny and it was that and more. It is not a situational comedy, it is not just comedy , it is much more than that. It is complicated, it is many layered, it is a brilliant screenplay and I feel proud that someone put up the money for a film like this , in this country.
It is so unpredictable that when you are expecting it to make you laugh it takes you by your balls and twists it around. Then you think will it go into the Shallow Grave zone and it doesn’t. it takes you where you are not expecting it. It does not solves problems of Dubey, it sorts him out.
And Dubey, what a character created by it’s authors. A man who idolises Dhirubhai ambani, only film he chooses to take his wife to is Guru, he wants to be rich but does not want money he does not deserve. He constantly is having a dialogue with God, a god who wants to be rid of his monologues, a tired God, depressed God, who munches on chips and lolipops, always eating , obese god , who is always cursing himself for what he has created, a God brilliantly played by Saurabh Shukla. His best performance yet. The to and fro betwen God and Dubey is not just highly relevant it’s also entertainong.
A brilliant low budget attempt, the kind of film that heartens you and underlines the fact that our cinema is indeed changing. Apparently shot in 19 days. brilliant performances also by Divya dutta, Harsh Chhaya and Ghanshyam Garg. Do not let this film die, watch it . Must watch.
Initially when it began the background score bothered me, the sound design was nothing but dubbed dialogues and background and it kind of was irritating, but then things like that go away when the story takes over, issues that we at PFC crib about like production values and cinematography, does not apply here keeping the budget in which it was shot at, but I am still so bloody happy that someone made it here. Kudos to Vinay pathak for another tour-de-force performance and also Saurabh Shukla, and hats off to another Saurabh, the shrivastava, whereever he came from, to make this, his producers and writers. Watch it before Rab ne starts to kick every film out of the theatres, do not leave it for next week.
Tomo I will see Dil Kabaddi and monday Maharathi.. hope these films keep coming.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Wah kya Title hai,
sounds like Saeed Mirza’s Title,..
Poster design dekhna padega
Oh my God!!!
I thought title of the movie is
“Bhagwan deta hai par Dubey nahi leta hai”..
Sounds interesting.. Shall definitely look out for it…
@Shekhar, this film’s poster hit me with the exact same thoughts. And what timing! I walked out of Dasvidaniya and I see a comedy with the same actors! Wasn’t I relieved at that. He he.
Even I told the same thing to my friends, ki dekho kitna sahi naam hai picture ka. Oh my god doesn’t work that good. Par sab chalta hai, picture achi ho to.
Poster is mostly comic, like those play posters. Saurabh Shukla in 5 get-ups around a hysterical Vinay. Watching it in few hours.
Frankly I didn’t expect it to come that early though.
This weekend is turning out to be quite historical indeed.
Here are the posters
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/42819.html
For a second there I thought that this was another ‘Bruce Almighty’ remake.
I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Sourabh’s been AWOL for ages!
@AK
Yesterday I saw MAHARATHI-New Empire,DIL KABADDI-Eros and OH MY GOD-Liberty back to back !!
OH MY GOD- I must admit I was just blown off by the sheer conviction of the Director to pull off this subject, I totally agree with you on the point that this movie got made, it is the sheer luck of the audience, everybody in the last show of Liberty were in SPLITS a necessary relief after the 60 hr movie terror mayhem on TV!! Let me also tell you if you have noticed the film has one of the best INTERVAL CUTTING POINT I have seen of Indian Cinema till date that shows that this director Saurabh Srivastava is really ahead of his times, kudos to his entire team,its a FANTASTIC first time effort !!!
Pl watch DIL KABADDI again a Indianised version of Woody Allen’s HUSBANDS AND WIVES, Irrfan Khan excels in every frame , one of his top comic performances till date !!
And MAHARATHI was a play and should have remained the same !!!
GK
anurag,
the director of this movie was an assistant to RGV…
i enjoyed watching the film too..Saurabh Shukla and Vinay Pathak are magnificent in the film.
other side :P
http://international.zeenews.com/inner1.asp?aid=203262&sid=SHT&ssid=3
will catch in India next week
surprisingly zee are the producers of this one…
Will catch it.
@AK
Ha,Ha,ha that was a gd ONE !!!!
GK
“Watch it before Rab ne starts to kick every film out of the theatres, do not leave it for next week.” – Only you could have wrote this.. lol..
Nik
G.K. i meant the review kcp has posted is on zeespice..
@AK
Yes i read that and was surprised too to see Zee films and Zee Spice are 2 different parts of the same body that tickled my bone !!!
GK
I am so confused. not one reviewer out there is gving good ratings to ohmygod, and yet everyone on pfc seems to love it. Yeh kya ho raha hai. kuch samajh mein nahin aata. with vinay and saurabh in it, i am definitely going to see it though an try to understand the perspective of the maharathis like Anurag and GK.
This is the first +ve take on the film that I’ve read till now….
i saw a few dissapointed reviews on this movie on news channels n it became just another ‘bruce almighty’ inspired so called b’wood flick for me. but now im gonna have to see this. thanks Mr.Kashyap.
A super-painful, stupid movie. Avoid wasting your money.
hi..Mr anurag kashyap..it’s like a dream talking to u..im a student..learning animation..but ure movies have made me take interest in hindi cinema..i love all ur movies..main sach main aapka bahot bada fan hun..log jaye bhaad main..i agree with every single thing in ur blogs..waiting for the launch of the music of dev d..i know..it’s gonna be killer..i saw 3-iron today..soya nhin raat ko..it was a very good movie..why is it like that..har ghatiya banda film bna rha hai aajkal..i would love to meet u someday personally..i love you(i’m not gay)i don’t know why..but ya i do..keep working on making good movies..all the best.
i saw it yesterday, its fully enjoyable.
i was about to ignore this movie but thanks to Anurag for recommending this movie.
Totally disappointing!
What was Sourabh Srivastava trying to convey?
Almost every dialogue was written twice ..a desperate attempt to convert a documentary into a feature film.
People, locations, drama all of it looked fake.
Dubey’s disillusion was painful (in a bad way) to watch …
I did end up watching the entire movie only because it felt like a private screening with just 4 of us in the theater
God! for those who believe, must know that God is smarter than that…
Anurag ,I am surprised that you enjoyed this movie..
anurag, no comments on rickys comment on the dir being RGV’s assistant? kyo?
anurag, any thing u can tell about Gulal. i mean anything about plot outline, or actors, or any other info??
same goes for Doga. heard Kunal Kapoor is playing lead.
Anurag appreciate the encouragement shown by you towards a simple low budget film called Oh, My God!! I was really shocked, amazed by the ignorance and complete non encouragement lended by the critics to the film’s concept/and the efforts of a debutant director. I guess soon it will be no gloss no review…That said please tell us more about Gulaal …
Saw it. Sahi hai… but didn’t like the ending. But that apart, Congratulations to Srivastava.
On another note, Anurag have you seen Cube by Vincenzo Natalie? Please reply soon (preferably by tonight) if it isn’t too much of a hassle
@Joyjeet
I have seen that film , a very rare low budget half a million dollar sci-fi film, a good attempt for the money invested !!!
GK
@Joyjeet, GK
Check out sequels Hypercube and Cube Zero.
I find the title of “Oh my God!” not correct.Here my logic may seem a lttl bit odd. But when ever you search the name “oh my god” in Google you will never find anything about the movie in the first page cos it is a very common term. Instead they should give titles which are a lttl different.
I am just a common viewer.And this is my personal opinion.I would like to know the opinion of senior people here.
@Pratik
Any way to get them. M in Delhi
Thank you Anurag. I was actually NOT going to watch this movie after reading negative reviews about it. But after reading your review I decided to go for it and I am very happy that I chose to watch it.
It was a good narrative with an original story. I don’t see how it was similar to Bruce almighty except for the fact that there was a God in human form.
I agree that the sound design and the background score of the film was below average but as you rightly said a few minutes into the movie, it does not matter because the story kicks in.
I completely fell in love with the performances and the screenplay. The flow of the movie was very impressive and it conveys the story and the idea very well. The film also has a very interesting blend of drama and comedy, which makes it quite unpredictable. Also, the makers have blended an artistic flavour into the film very well. I just loved it !! Great work by Vinay Pathak and Saurabh Shukla.
Based on my internet search, it seems that this was not only the director’s debut but also of the writers. A job well done. Congratulations to the Director (Sourabh Shrivastava) and the Writers (Vipul Binjola, Asit Kaul, Manisha Ojha, Rishi Virmani). It was a fantastic low budget attempt.
Oh, My God affirms my belief that one cannot trust these review writers who try to be pseudo – intellectuals and ruin the film for the viewers.
Anurag, thanks again and would look forward to more from you.
hey anurag…i have been ur fan since star bestsellers days….from few months i am watching u appreciating every movie (made by this young directors) from hulla to this one..i am not saying this are bad movies…but would like to no which movie u didnt like in this whole year made by so called “multiplex movie” directors…
regards
thanks for the thumbsup Anurag. I caught the film back to back with a second viewing of lucky before it left cinemas right after the first week.
vinay pathak is good in this film – definitely better than dasvidanaya – though I liked that too, but Saurabh Shukla is just magnificent. I somehow feel he should have played the three Paresh Rawals in Oye Lucky. Fantastic actor – wish we could get to see more of him around.
The film though not in my top films for the year, really works very well for the budget, and doesn’t drag much given the very minimalistic context.
Highlight of the weekend was watching Hulla finally. WHOA, what an amazing film. BRILLIANT is the word that describes everything about the film – I’m sure if Jaideep will blow audiences away with his next film – the only mistake (for lack of a better word) he’s made is make a film about something not everyone can identify with and will find the protoganist over-reacting after the first half an hour. I could have sat through another hour of the film, I found it so well made. The jokes are actually funny, the perfomances fantastic, and the story totally believable -at least personally for me, as I myself of an almost insomniac, and a very light sleeper. I could identify with everything Sushant goes through and hence does, and actually found the film getting better with every passing minute.
Kudos! If he choses to make something that won’t need such a niche audience I can wager anything his next film is gonna be way more appreciated and mindblowing.
Also saw Black Friday finally on dvd the last weekend – fantastic. But I guess everything that needed to be said’s been said over the years.
“Oh my god” is a true low budget-yet-no compromise good movie.Script and performences are king here.
My Fav scene is the opening one when God is searching for words to answer Vinay in the temple.Absolutely hillarious and innovative scene.
Hey..Bhagwan tune mujhe hi kyon bhagwan banaya!!
i am sorry to intrpt wth something else,but anurag and all you folks must see this..
this is the best i saw on ‘george w. bush’ till now..i almost died laughing.
jisne bhi kiya hain..dhamal kiya hain..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwRb_XKFvA
enjoy.
Rahi.
This is really screwed up…I loved Black Friday …thought at least there is a sensible Director in Bollywood …then was following the hype and hoopla of No Smoking on PFC closely …was having very high expectation…BANG I really wish that at Kashyap undersood what he was doing …Now the PFC folks also didnt liked it!!!Mr Kashyap …When someone makes a movie its for audience and the self satisfaction…if U want to make a movie forURSELF GO MAKE A HOME VIDEO…THis as a movie fan I am saying …I am a software engineer and no critic …Now U right about OMG like its the NEXT SHOLAY …We think ur atleast intelligent enough to recommed a good movie (forget directing it)…BUT ITS ONE OF THE CRAPPIEST MOVIE ever seen!!!That character of DUBEY IS SHOWN A F$$$UP GUY who doesnt have the sense and sesibility …and ur praising him as if HES THE THAKUR OF SHOLAY ..WAH BHAI WAH …UR HAVE EVEN SUPASSED TARAN ADARSH WHO SAID FOR KARZZ …GO HAVE A BLAT!!!BLAST MY ASS:)..Keep writing…I think u should stick to that only writing cartoons where ur vivid imagination can atleast appeal the kids!!!!LOL…DEV D Lets see !!!
hi,,sir..i m from indore .sir pls says main kaise ramgopal varma se mil sakta hoon.i m script writer & i wan a work with rgv pls suggest me sir.
i agree wth u on performances, bt d wy story goes , i didnt like it, evevn though he doent take d money he doesnt deserve y he need s to become mad at d end, der shud hav been a far more batter ending.Vinay pathak carried d film well bt nt as dasvidaniya
Hahaha bhagwaan deta hai par Dubey nahi leta hai…Hindi belt comedy is endearing.