| God Tussi Great
Ho Movie
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Music :
Sajid-Wajid |
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Lyrics :
Jalees Sherwani, Deven Shukla, Shabbir Ahmed |
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Direction :
Rumi Jaffrey |
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Producer :
Afzal
Khan |
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Leading Cast :
Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Anupam
Kher, Dalip Tahil, |
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Sanjay Mishra, Bina Kak, Amitabh Bachchan, Manisha Koirala |
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‘God Tussi Great Ho’ is a timepass comedy full of
pedestrian humour and puerile jokes that make you
laugh more because of their stupidity than their
intrinsic wit (or the lack of it).
If there is any wish one would ask of God to
fulfill, it is to rid the Bollywood filmmakers of
their addiction to rip off Hollywood hits in the
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Despite writer-director Rumi Jaffery’s claim to the
contrary, God Tussi Great Ho is a copy of the Jim
Carrey starrer ‘Bruce Almighty’. The movie borrows
the basic plot from the Hollywood flick and twists
it to suit the Indian context. And the result is not
so great. The rehash works only in fits and starts.
The comedy is mostly corny and the laugh-inducing
gags are few and far between. And this ‘far between’
is also full of senseless songs that seems to have
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with the narrative and are squeezed in just for the
heck of it.
Salman Khan plays Arun Pajapati, a man devastatingly out of
luck. Everything he tries to do goes spectacularly wrong. He
works for a TV channel and his very first show is a flop. He
has a crush on his colleague Alia ( Priyanka Chopra ) but
doesn’t have guts to tell her. On top of it, his
professional and romantic rival Rocky ( Sohail Khan ) keeps
outshining him at every step.
Back home, Arun has a bickering retired father ( Anupam Kher
) who keeps taunting him for being a failure, a sister who
is unmarried because she is unattractive, and a mother who
prays to the very God Arun blames for all his misfortunes.
One day, after losing his job Arun vents his anger on the
Almighty for making his life a mess. Next thing we know is
that God (Amitabh Bachchan) Himself appears before Arun and
grants him his divine power for 10 days to put things right.
Arun uses his power for personal, professional gain and
becomes a hero overnight. But all his godly acts inevitably
create one problem after another until the whole world
becomes a chaotic place. Arun realizes that God’s work
should better be left to Him and whatever He does is for
good. |
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Comparing ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ with ‘Bruce Almighty’
is almost unavoidable. Not only does Rumi Jaffery
borrow the basic plot, he even sticks to the same
details as in the Hollywood flick. But for the
colour of his skin, Amitabh Bachchan is almost the
mirror image of Morgan Freeman, who played the
Almighty all dressed in white. And is it just a
coincidence that the protagonist of ‘God Tussi’ is
in the same profession as in ‘Bruce Almighty’?
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Salman Khan is no Jim Carrey but the actor still
pulls off some sequences with aplomb. The actor’s comedy
mostly borders on slapstick and his expressions range from
being perpetually peeved to blissfully indifferent. And
what’s with those bleary eyes and puffed-up body. The star
needs to check his weight and better his fashion sense.
Priyanka Chopra doesn’t have much role to write about and
she seems to play her part mechanically. Sohail Khan is
quite entertaining in a few scenes while Anupam Kher is over
the top. Satish Kaushik rocks with just a brief appearance
as a pot-bellied mantri.
At the end of the day, ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ is just another
poor rehash that highlights the tragic lack of originality
among Bollywood filmmakers. I bet if Rumi Jaffery is himself
made to sit on the lie detecting chair (that Salman makes in
the film) the director will fail with flying colours. And he
might even blame the Almighty for it.
God is Great! Sadly, this film isn’t. |
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Rating: 2/5 |
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