It turns out that "O God of Even Drops" and "My God" are two different movies, and I will not allow me to be the last person to know about it.
<h1>1 Behind similar titles are similar themes</h1>
O God of Even Drops is a comedy directed by Umesh Shukla, starring Palesh Raval and Akshe Kumar. Released in 2012.
"My God" is a fantasy love film produced by India's UTV Pictures in 2014, directed by Lakuma Hirani and starring Amir Khan and Anushka Shama.
Both are Indian films, so why are the titles so similar?
This is because the subject matter they express is similar.
"O Even Drop God" tells the story of an atheist Indian businessman who, because he offended the gods, his shop was destroyed in the earthquake, and he was so desperate that he went to the court to sue the gods, demanding that the temple compensate for his losses.
"My God" tells the story of an alien who came to Earth, but the remote control device for his home was robbed, and everyone told him that only God can help you, and he has been walking on the road to find God.
The story has a central theme, that is, what kind of god is worth believing in?
It is not the kind of god who swindles for profit, not the xenophobic religious factions and extremists, but the common creator of mankind.
<h1>2 Difference 1: Intention</h1>
The same theme is expressed, but there are different ideas.
The whole film "Even Drop God" only wants to clarify one theme, that is, is there a god in this world?
But the first half of "My God" also expresses this theme, but at the same time it is interspersed with love, although it is touching, but it has the feeling of painting snakes.
The film "Even Drop God" never denied the existence of god, so the director even created a god to come to the human world to help the male protagonist.
However, "My God" gives the decision of whether the religious master lies to the heroine's love prophecy to come true, which makes people feel a bit playful and the pattern becomes smaller.
In the first half of the alien PK, in order to find the gods, he believed in all religions, he was very religious, he made offerings to each god, participated in religious ceremonies, rolled on the ground, scraped on the body with a knife, and finally the god did not appear, and he helplessly knelt in front of the god statue and asked the god to give him an answer. It makes people feel that this is a story of a helpless alien visitor looking for a home in this world.
This intention itself is already very high, but in the second half of the paragraph, the aliens are arranged to fall in love with the heroine, but after learning that the heroine has a heart, he decides to fulfill them, and in the debate between him and the mage, he proposes that the mage's prophecy of the heroine's love is wrong, and bets on this to decide who is right.
Fortunately, the other party is still in love with the heroine, which proves that what the alien said is right, the film celebrates the great love across religion, creating a very strong entertainment effect, but does not take into account the instability of the feelings, after two years of no news still love each other, this is not all love can do, and even if it is true love, it may not necessarily use the way of calling the embassy every day.
<h1>3 Difference 2: Expressive approach</h1>
"O God of Even Drops" Indian businessman sued the gods, it seems very exciting, but in fact, the director's performance method is quite gentle and subtle, he has never dared to find out whether there is a god in this world, there are 65% of the theists in this world, do you want to offend all these people?
So he cleverly set up a real god, and the role is a metaphor, borrowing from krishna Krishna, the embodiment of the god in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, as a coachman for the Julu prince Arjuna Aruana, driving the chariot to the field of Dharma.
In the film, the god appears in a special locomotive to send the merchant Kanji home, and finally the god drives the locomotive and sends the merchant Kanji to the scene of the religious activity, and Kanji personally breaks his own idol.
In the end, the gods revealed their identity to Kanji, but did not allow him to leave his own relics, because the gods wanted Kanji to understand that the real God was in the human heart and did not exist in any relic, which applied to both atheists and theists, and at the same time appeased both sides.
But "My God" is cloaked in the cloak of magical love, and some part of it does explore some extremely profound topics, and the director strongly criticizes love tragedies and extreme conflict events caused by different religious beliefs through the mouth of the alien PK.
In the film, the heroine's family is Indian, but she falls in love with a Pakistani, and the two people are opposed because of their different family beliefs and miss love.
The parents of the heroine said directly: Pakistanis will only lie.
At the same time, the film also nakedly shows some dark sides, such as aliens wearing stolen police uniforms, and some people take the initiative to send gifts.
The heroine can take away the prisoner as long as she gives the police money.
News anchors were left with three large scars on the buttocks of extremists for slamming religion.
There is also the alien PK, in order to pursue the faith on the ground rolling even if it is, self-harm with a knife on the back also shows from the side that some religions are really harmful.
In the play, the helpful, kind and sincere big brother, in order to help PK, was killed by extremists.
Aliens came to Earth, this time he did not invade, not strong enough to conquer the Earth, but he was endlessly expelled, bullied, could only sleep on the steps or detention center, could only steal money and clothes, how many nights, can only cry and despair, the reason behind this is not only that people can not understand his situation, the indifference of society is also chilling.
<h1>epilogue</h1>
These two films can say a lot more, in general, they are very good films, they involve the big topic of religious belief and world peace, and this topic is still extremely scarce in Chinese films, which is related to the cultural environment and history, but we can still see that some of the efforts made by filmmakers in other countries to change some things are not just for fame and fortune.