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No ‘divinity’ in this

THE MAGIC FAILS: Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra in ‘God Tussi Great Ho’.

Film: God Tussi Great Ho

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra

Direction: Rumi Jaffery

Life is all about worshipping one, hating none.

Submitting yourself to the will of the Almighty because He alone knows what is best for us. His knowledge is unlimited, so is His mercy. Yet man is foolhardy enough to believe that he can step beyond his mortal being, decide what is good for him, be t he master of his destiny.

Not to be. The pawn can never succeed the King. That sums up Rumi Jaffery’s long delayed ‘God Tussi Great Ho’, a film that comes with dollops of trademark Salman Khan humour.

Also a film that makes a colossal waste of Amitabh Bachchan’s enviable talent. If the film is all about projecting the power of the divine, the director commits a no mean crime by under utilising Bachchan.

Weak script

The film though weak in script and floundering with forgettable dialogues, however, has several perky moments.

Salman plays an electronic media journalist, who must come up with a show that gets the best TRPs. With him is his colleague, Priyanka Chopra, who delivers the same even as the guy fumbles badly. Every time he fails, he blames it on Almighty – played with poise by Bachchan. When his dad screams at him for doing nothing, almighty is to be blamed. When his boss fires him, God is to take the flak! All until one day God decides that He will temporarily give His powers to this floundering man!

It is a nice premise, amply borrowed from ‘Bruce Almighty’.

However, despite situational humour of Salman, the film falls short. Badly short. When all that the director needed was a focussed narration of the evolving relationship between man and God, he introduces a love triangle -- Sohail Khan, with his usual corny fare, wants Priyanka too!

Lustreless songs

Then the director adds some lustreless songs that do nobody any favours. Even as Salman goes from one mistake to another, then redeems himself in the nick of time, Bachchan as god, just stands and stares. He is too shackled to lift the film in his sporadic and fleeting appearances. As for Salman, he does his screech and scream routine. Sorry, but this take on man and God has no divinity. A few moments of mirth and merriment is all it offers for two hours of mediocrity.

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