Creative Quotient
Writer duo Kunal Kohli and Rohena Gera pick a couple of good, family films, shake them up together and serve up a new and adapted version. On the one hand, The Sound Of Music’s nuns get replaced by angels and Mother Superior by God in his heaven and the flighty Maria by garrulous Geeta (Rani) on the other. In Dushman, murderer Rajesh Khanna was ordered to help out the victim’s widow Meena Kumari. Here, rich business tycoon Ranbeer Talwar (Saif) has to nurture four children whose parents have perished in a car crash because of him. Now God feels Ranbeer needs his help which he promptly dispatches in the form of Geeta didi, the righteous, motor-mouth nanny. So much for Mr Kohli’s originality!
To his credit however is the endearing avatar of immaculately suited-booted God Almighty (Rishi Kapoor), and the idea that you are under His scanner all the while and he could be fulfilling your wishes any time’s, poses interesting possibilities. Otherwise, the entire setting of the household - a liveried butler (in this day and age!), bunk beds, a hamster for a pet and kids being driven to school in a plush car are far removed from the Indian millieu. Somehow it is difficult to connect with the characters. Only Amisha’s bimbette character is completely convincing. Never mind her rising hemlines, there are such vacuous beauties around.

Technical Expertise
Surprisingly Kunal Kohli’s lines in the film are neither touching nor inspiring. While Saif and Rani play out their roles with endearing sincerity, but the characters just don’t cast a spell. Saif’s smug act and Rani’s bubbly avatar both don’t sizzle together. But Amisha does, in her skimpy dresses and underwater necking. None of the four child artistes are able to tug at the heart-strings, and that’s a great failure for the director.
The VFX department chooses to create a snazzy, futuristic God and his heaven, where the Almighty sits around a glass top table with a bevy of angels, a refreshing change from the satin costumes and cumbersome gilt-crowns that were popularised by films and TV so far. Even Geeta’s bike ride down the rainbow makes an engaging visual, so do the magical stars that buzz up every time Geeta casts a spell. But the museum song which makes dinosaurs and old armours dance alongside Geeta are a bit tacky, but the tiger coming alive from the poster is applauseworthy.
Sudeep Chatterjee’s camerawork is neat though not scintillating and Amitabh Shukla’s edit is crisp enough. But Manish Malhotra’s designs on Rani are not complimentary by any stretch of imagination. The long skirt topped with those lacy, stuffy blouses and vests only make her look dawdy. Ditto Mamta Anand’s formal designs for Saif on all occasions and low-slung tracks at times - rather monotonous.
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s score does not really help the film. Prasoon Joshi’s lyrics are inconsistent. On the whole, Mr Kohli’s magic wand seems to be out of order this time.

Verdict
Two stars - one for Rishi Kapoor’s Godly act and another one for Saif’s and Rani’s sincerity and star-appeal without which no one would watch the film.