CAST : Ajay Devgn, Sidharth Malhotra, Rakul Preet Singh, Seema Pahwa

DIRECTOR: Indra Kumar

If you are going to watch Thank God with the expectation of it being a sensitive story of a man’s relationship with his faith, you will be extremely disappointed.

Ayaan( Siddhartha Malhotra)  is a successful realtor who does not care about how his clients are laundering money through his real estate deals. However, fate strikes a blow at him when Mr Modi decides to demonetize. This renders most of the currency he has hoarded as useless.

On the brink of bankruptcy, Ayaan decides to sell his lavish home where he, his wife Ruhi ( Rakul Preet Singh ) and daughter Pihu live.

On the way to a meeting, his car has an accident and he almost dies.

Next thing we know is that he is facing his judgement day in front of God, called CG ( Ajay Devgn), two (only not fourteen) angels and YD ( cool form for YamDoot- the God of Death)

Now in this God of the future scenario, God actually plays a la KBC kind of game with people who are hanging between life and death. The winners get to live and losers get to go to hell.

And it gets better. This arena is suspended up amongst the clouds in three or four tiers. Standing on each tier are dead people in white dresses with white hair ( yes, only the aged die apparently) and with every round of the game that CG plays, they get to throw very well aimed balls at two vessels on either side of Ayaan, white if he has done well black ( seriously – racism galore) if he has sinned.

After that CG takes Ayaan through different episodes of his life where he was mean and dishonest and all the spirits in white standing in the layered balconies looking down upon Ayaan either throw down into the vessels the colored balls.

Then CG offers help in the form of lifelines as well where Ayaan is chaperoned by a spirit or CG himself to prevent him from sinning.

Now as a concept all this would have been fine had the sins and non-sins not been non-sense.

The concept that the supreme power has the time to impart moral lessons about lies and deceit to people is a bit far reached but could have been interesting had the moral science lesson not lasted for two hours.

Most of the humor though  situational seemed to be strung together in parts of highs followed by emotional highs.

Thank God is no Bruce Almighty. Not even in that league. The movie seems to be an attempt to place people’s actions in black and white simplistically and fails at the grays.

There are parts where you see even a seasoned actor like Siddharth Malhotra trying his best to convince himself of the role he is playing.

Ajay Devgn as CG ( Chitragupta- the God who keeps a record of rights and wrongs of human beings) is showmanish.

Rakul’s role remains un-fleshed. Nora looks botoxed and the manike song inserted is unreal.

On the whole, director Indra Kumar seems to have missed the entire plot of the plot.