Film: God Tussi Great Ho

Director: Rumi Jaffrey

Banner: Shabbo Arts

Producer: Afzal Khan

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Manisha Koirala, Priyanka Chopra, Anupam Kher, Sohail Khan, Satish Kaushik, Dilip Tahil

Rating: 1.5/5

It'd be a shame to compare Rumi Jaffrey's directorial debut God Tussi Great Ho with the original Tom Shadyac's Bruce Almighty. Not because it doesn't lift anything or isn't as good but because God Tussi completely misses the point of Bruce Almighty. Neither does it take the argument of the original nor does it give meaning to anything of its own. Ultimately it turns out to be a farcical, didactic and shallow take on concepts as significant as God, belief, individual responsibility, the nature of human destiny and the role of human psyche.

God Tussi Great Ho is the story of AP-Arjun Prajapati (Salman Khan), a TV creative who can never get anything right. He is an underachiever at his job, he cannot propose to the girl he loves, Alia (Priyanka Chopra), he has a crabby father constantly complaining about his inefficiencies and a plain sister who cannot find suitors. Things cannot get worse when a competitor enters his life in the form of Rocky (Sohail Khan) threatening his precarious position at his job and his girl. Numerous jibes and screams at the unfairness of God later AP is summoned to God who gives him HIS powers for ten days to make him see the truths of the way the world is run.

Needless to say, AP runs into his share of victories and failures most of them personal forgetting to spread his powers to the real work that God gave him the powers for. Thus ensues the pre-climactic twist-in-the-tale imparting 'great lessons' to our hero that transform him from a loser to a winner.

For a money-spinning-good-for-a-few-laughs venture the movie owes no responsibilities to the greater questions it spawns. Fair enough. The writer-director completely forgets (or maybe he never knew it to begin with) that adding a touch of deeper questions, what is otherwise called 'layers' adds to the enjoyment of simple comedies much more than rolling around antics of aging heroes...

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