Ori Devuda Vs Thank God: Where Divine Intervention Failed!

Vishwak Sen’s Ori Devuda is the official remake of Oh My Kadavule. The director of the original remade the film exactly from frame to frame in Telugu as it was in Tamil. For those who have not watched the original, Ori Devuda is a fantasy romance drama that has some surprises and a few heart rendering sequences.

However, Ori Devuda managed to pull off the feat and garnered good talk, with a second chance by divine intervention. There is another film that was released this week with a similar concept, but it turned out to be a patience tester.

The Bollywood movie Thank God, Siddharth Malhotra and Ajay Devgan were released for Diwali. The rich protagonist Siddharth Malhotra loses all his money to demonetization. His personal and professional life turns miserable, leaving his life in chaos and frustration. He gets into an accident and his soul is sent to heaven to meet ‘CG’ the Chitragupta, Ajay Devgan. The CG plays a game with him, the ‘Game of Life’ when he is supposed to learn from his mistakes.

Though the concept is similar, the treatment that failed the movie Thank God. The poor writing with the half-baked characters made everything look synthetic and overboard. The lack of balance between multiple genres played the spoiled sport in Thank God.

Having said that, god’s intervention in Ori Devuda worked just fine while in Thank God, it did not help to make anything better in the mess it was already in.