Compared to the famous Jim Carrey-starrer Bruce Almighty, God Tussi Great Ho comes across as an over-the-top, kitschy, sorry-rip of the original. So does it do any better on its own merits?

Despite taking in factors such as Indian sensibilities and mass appeal, the poor performances and amateur graphics that fill the 180 minutes, still remain exasperating to say the least.

Amitabh Bachchan (God) allows a down-on-luck Arun Prajapati (Salman Khan) to play Him for ten days. But the film gets there only post-interval, before which director Rumi thinks its funny to see an hour and more of Salman and Sohail Khan stick their tongues out at each other.

And since when did acting in Bollywood become incidental? For most parts, Salman looks like he’s doing a spoof of a C-grade actor in an emotionally-charged scene.

Sure there are moments that look like they could be funny... to a twelve-year-old!

And if it is true that most of the animation for Hollywood flicks is done in India, you’d think you’d be spared the sight of desktop screensavers being passed off as backdrops in a movie! That’s just one of the many ways the audience is taken for granted. There aren’t enough words in the dictionary to describe how nails-drawing-blood annoying it is to watch the Khan brothers ‘act’.

(And what’s with Sohail calling Sallu bade bhaiya all the time? Did he not notice the camera rolling?)
Amitabh and Anupam Kher (as Salman’s father) give reasonably good performances, going by what one is able to gauge in the minuscule screen-time they get.

Priyanka Chopra and Rajpal Yadav (as the roadside romeo) too do neat, professional jobs of their roles.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the film’s lead actor and side-kick.