![]() Since the day he had taken 'God's money' as a 'loan' for his business endeavours, Lord Krishna (Vikram Gokhle) has been visiting him quite regularly (visible to him only and to none else). There are many wrong things which have been out of his knowledge. However gradually he is able to see that the landscape of his life is not as greenish as he perceives it. Meantime his elder son gets married to the daughter (Neeta Mehta) of his business partner (Utpal Dutt) and apparently everything seems to be perfectly placed in his life. And finally, the day comes when he is no longer a modestly living ordinary person and has become very rich now. With the help of that money, he keeps on going forward in the line of business and progresses by leaps and bound due to his hard work and dedication towards his mission (to become rich). Gaayatri prohibits him from taking God's money but he does not listen and promises to return this 'loan' taken from God in due course of time. One day he decides to grow in the line of business and takes money out of the sacred money accumulated and kept for religious purposes only by by his religious wife, i.e., Gaayatri. His disbelief in God regularly leads to his arguments with his wife. In the given situation of his life, he is able to afford only a very modest lower middle class living for himself and his family. ![]() He has two sons - Madhu (Romesh Sharma) and Govind (Aadil) and a daughter - Kamla (Tamanna). Yehi Hai Zindagi (this only is life) is the story of Anand (Sanjeev Kumar) who is an atheist but the husband of a religious lady - Gaayatri (Seema Deo). ![]() Anyway, this movie reminded me of a three and a half decades old Hindi movie which was made on the same theme albeit its script was entirely different from that of OMG. ![]() I liked this movie very much just like its other admirers but found weaknesses also in the script and its treatment. Started with the question whether God exists or not, it ended with emergence of faith in God in the heart of the protagonist. Based on his own Gujarati play, this movie attacks on the exploitation of people's religious sentiments by the high profile 'contractors of religion' spread in all the nooks and corners of India. Paresh Rawal starrer release of this year - Oh My God has drawn a lot of praise. ![]()
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