Thank God

Thank God a nice film! It has a decent storyline,good acting done by Siddhharth Malhotra, Ajay Devgan and Rakul. It's a feel good film and leaves a meaningful message at the end. The ending was a little unpredictable and ultimately surprising. Great sets and special effects , so it's worth a watch in theatres as I think that people should come to watch it instead of watching it on OTT platforms as It's not necessary for a film to be flawless and have great VFX or story so that it's worth a watch in theatres. Simple films like Thank God also deserves to be watched on big screens. Thank God is 4/5 for me.

I never expected Thank God to be a great film and it is not. In fact , it is a very shallow level film with many flaws . Yet i felt it was a nice feel good film with good lessons learning journey.

The lessons it teaches us are very basic ones and one that every one from your family can easily resonate with. Also, it gives these lessons in very interesting ways... how? ...So basically, in Siddharth (named Ayaan in film) is a greedy small minded person who meets with an accident and is up in heaven in front of CG apparantly Chitragupta and Yamdoot who give him one last chance to redeem himself in order for him to survive. CG (Ajay Devgn) connects various events in Sids life in a very surprise reveal or twisty style to give him life lessons and this is what I found really interesting.

In fact there is one final twist at the end which maybe predictable for many but still was quite interestingly blended with the film. The game show like screenplay makes sure i was always invested in the film with no boring moments.

Ajay Devgn is another big positive about this film. His call and often swaggy nature made his parts extremely interesting.

These above factors make the film very much watchable but of course i said its not a great film.

Siddharth Malhotra after a terrific Shershaah falls flat in this film. "Thank God" Ajay Devgn was there in this film otherwise it would have been a bigger washout . Sid is hammy. He can't crack jokes properly. He is still not a very polished actor.

VFX is often not good but that's all you can expect from a film with not very high budget.

Indra Kumar, the Dhamaal / Masti man, is still not very matured as a director. His direction and treatment still feels stuck in the early 2000s but atleast this time he didn't make a cringy film. His films are well known for comedy but that's exactly what went missing in the film. Whatever comedy was there in the film was already shown in the trailer (in fact i would say the entire first half was shown in the trailer) and it barely works in the film . However, if one notes Indra Kumar's interview, he himself claimed he did not make this film as an out an out comedy but atleast whatever was there should have worked but sadly it doesn't.

Songs..umm..nah forget them. Maybe that Dil De Diya is something i love till now.

Overall, i am sure critics will bash this film and such films don't deserve to be watched with critical eyes. These are "just chill and enjoy" type of films. Also, it's not an out and out comedy so don't go in expecting a lol ride, it's actually more of a emotional life lesson / moral story kind of film. Last but not the least, what i liked was that it kept the lessons short and simple and not like some 15 mins speech that many Ayushman Khurrana films have. All lessons are given in just 30 secs and some of it is quite impactful.

I would start with the movie really diggs deep into the way we portray ourselves.

Instead of pleasing one another we keep on trying to please god.

I think it was the beauty of this movie.

Very well acted and funny at the right time.

Ajay looked cool and acted well.

Sidhart did well as well.

The girl looked and acted well.

The kid was cute.

Songs was just about okey.

Cgi was okey for the plot of the movie.

But the feeling the move gave was the maine purpose, and it was well achieved.

The message the movie gives, is way better than what I expected The world is becoming more bitter and materialistic.

The concept of this movie has been used in several Indian movies over decades. A person is hanging between life and death,goes to afterlife / heaven / hell and is allowed to revisit earth or his former life. To this, another common concept of a bad person realizing the effect of his actions on others and therefore repenting and making good of all his mistakes is added.

Movies of this sort are comedies with emotional moments in between. Here, the lead actor who is present in all scenes lacks capacity to act in comic scenes. To add to our woes, the comedy scenes are not that good themselves. Generally when the hero does not know how to act in a comedy, a side character like Brahmanandam, Johnny Lever or Rajpal Yadav is added to entertain the movie viewers. Emotional scenes are okayish but they are also let down by the hero. More role should have been given to other actors like hero's mother and Kanwaljeet Singh. Replace Siddarth Malhotra with Old Govinda and imagine the result.

Not recommended.

I wasn't expecting much other than entertainment and a few laughs from the movie. Initially, the premise of the movie seems interesting but the execution just average. As the movie progress, the plot becomes interesting and the story shows some depth. By the end, the movie comes off as not great but definitely good. Performances are great on the part of Ajay and rakul, while Siddhartha's not so much. A couple of tracks are good and will make you groove to them. Considering other things, the screenplay is okayish, editing good and the use of vfx is not bad either. All in all, it's definitely worth one watch.