Nov 19, 2012 11:56 AM
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(Updated May 22, 2013 01:00 PM)
This is not just another film with a few mendicants and their followers thrown in for comic relief. It is a film meant for those blind followers who play into the hands of pseudo-puritans bred on stereotypes, ritualising their devotion to the supreme being in burdening that artifact with attributions that are followed unquestioningly. Many of these blind followers will question the inability of science and technology in allowing subterranean travel below the river Yamuna in the Delhi Metro for example, but will spend hours in extolling the virtues of God in confounding scientists for some unexplained phenomenon.
However, Vasudev's antics were a bit over the top and too flamboyant bordering on a seeming glamorous projection rather than stick to an honest depiction of exploitation in the name of religion. Also, Kanjilal's arguments do seem a bit far-fetched, but these are interesting.
There is even a lesson for our political leadership who has "decided to be secular", rather than being inherently so, help in allowing dimwitted propaganda to spread unabated.
OMG raises some very pertinent questions in some very interesting and amusing manner. Worth a watch.
