critic’s score:Â
3.0/5
Thank God is an official remake of the 2009 Danish social comedy Sorte Kugler (What Goes Around). Ayaan Kapoor (Sidharth Malhotra) is a bankrupt actual property agent married to a cop. Frustrated along with his lot in life, he is not on his greatest behaviour with both spouse Ruhi (Rakul Preet Singh) or with daughter Pihu (Kiara Khanna). He’s acquired anger administration points, is low on shallowness, is jealous as hell and adores Nora Fatehi as a fantasy determine. One effective day, he meets with an accident, and as a substitute of waking up within the working room, he wakes up within the afterlife itself. This model of afterlife consists of an enormous stadium stuffed with souls, who’d be judging him in a recreation present known as The Game Of Life, hosted by C.G., brief for Chitragupta (Ajay Devgn). If he wins sufficient white balls, he’ll be despatched again to be resurrected. However, an abundance of black balls would imply an eternity spent in hell…
C.G. makes him relive episodes from his personal life. He realises his errors when he sees them from a special perspective. He realises he is been sort of shallow and egocentric all his life and has began taking relationships as a right. The completely different rounds train him a lesson in humility. He additionally learns to understand the great that’s taking place in his life and to let go of the dangerous. C.G. acts as his buddy, thinker and information all through. His dad jokes and mealy homilies conceal kernels of fact behind them. Ayaan goes from somebody residing in denial about his shortcomings to being somebody who accepts them and is prepared to vary.Â
Thank God is a sort of an escapist fantasy. We all would like to have a second likelihood. The movie supplies a protagonist with many second possibilities and helps him grow to be a greater individual within the course of. Who would not want for that sort of a leeway? Apart from the protagonist, who’s sort of immature and clueless, each different individual in his life, be it his mom, elder sister, his spouse and even his daughter are extra sorted than him. How they’ve tolerated him thus far is a thriller by itself. Life classes are taught in a vastly excessive method, which is however the norm for Indra Kumar’s movies. Men are pigs and generally it takes God’s direct intervention for them to show into cultured beings, appears to be the consensus of the movie. Karma’s a bitch and would chew you within the ass in case you do not do good is the movie’s easy lesson. Even in case you will not snigger out loud, some scenes undoubtedly would make you smile.Â
Veterans Kanwaljit Singh and Seema Pahwa play Ayaan’s dad and mom and his scenes with them provide one of the best emotional impression. Rakul Preet Singh breezes by her function of being a caring spouse. We want she had extra to do right here. After doing romance and motion earlier, Sidharth Malhotra has tried his hand at situational comedy and is not half dangerous as a clueless particular person going by an early midlife disaster. His response pictures are spot on. The movie rests on the ready shoulders of Ajay Devgn. He is at his comedic greatest because the all-knowing recreation present host who has nothing however one of the best pursuits of the contestants at coronary heart. One can see he is having fun with himself enjoying C.G. and has introduced in his A recreation essaying the function.
Watch Thank God for its light-hearted moments. Then go residence and watch the basic It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), the granddaddy of all such movies involving alternate lives.Â
Trailer : Thank God
Dhaval Roy, October 25, 2022, 5:39 PM IST
critic’s score:Â
3.0/5
Story: Ayaan is a hard-on-luck however self-centred and egoistic actual property man who meets with a automobile accident and reaches Heaven. He encounters Chitragupt there and must play the ‘Game of Life’ that may resolve whether or not he goes again to Earth or Hell, relying on his deeds. Will he win the sport and be united along with his spouse and daughter?
Review: The film shortly establishes Ayaan Kapoor (Sidharth Malhotra) as a profitable however amoral actual property agent who has an enormous debt and must promote his bungalow to repay it. As he struggles to crack a deal, he usually takes out his stress on his cop spouse, Ruhi Kapoor (Rakul Preet Singh). On his daughter’s birthday, as he’s speeding to satisfy a potential shopper, Ayaan meets with a automobile accident and positive aspects consciousness in Heaven, the place his deeds can be judged. By this level, one can already predict the course of the judgement as one is already conversant in Ayaan’s character. Written by Aakash Kaushik and Madhur Sharma, the simplistic story leaves little to the creativeness, and the viewers can foretell how issues will go. Most occasions that the judgement can be based mostly on are predictable, and issues are made too handy for the protagonist, Ayaan.
Director Indra Kumar units out to ship an entertainer with a message about karma and stays the course with out making the narrative too heavy or darkish. Chitragupt or CG (Ajay Devgn), YD or Yamdoot (Mahesh Balraj) and apsaras are given trendy avatars to make viewing extra palatable and relatable. There are references to Devgn’s superhit franchise Singham and a nod to Kaun Banega Crorepati. The premise is generally dialogue-driven however including flashbacks, encounters with YD and apsaras, and ‘lifelines’ breaks the monotony. The makers might have paid extra consideration to the CGI, which seems gimmicky in most elements.
Although Ajay Devgn performs his half as the strict but regardful deity nicely, the function is just too simplistic for a robust performer like him. Sidharth performs earnestly because the self-absorbed and unprincipled man, however issues would have been extra fascinating if his character had extra depth to make the judgement extra gripping. Rakul, as his supportive and extra gifted spouse, is respectable. Senior actors Kanwaljeet Singh and Seema Pahwa have cameo appearances as Ayaan’s dad and mom however show their appearing chops.
The story is caught within the 90s and oversimplified however the film makes for a simple watch. It would possibly discover favour with audiences who need a clear entertainer, because the movie has a message or two about transferring on about tribulations, being humane and the significance of 1’s household.
