Movie Club: Oh My God

Bollywood movies can be intimidating to get started with when you’re a westerner with no background in them. But watching Indian movies is a great way to learn more about the birthplace of Hinduism and begin to understand some of the cultural context of our religion.

Plus watching movies from other parts of the world expands our horizons and it’s lots of fun.

There’s lots of great Indian movies out there and a bunch of them are on Netflix streaming. I’ve seen too few and I want to remedy that! Join me for some fun, funny, epic Bollywood and Hindi movies on the weekends!

(What does this have to do with religion? Well, some of the movies touch on religion directly, but even those that don’t I can almost always find a spiritual angle on. After all, God is all around us and everywhere in life).

We’ll start with a movie that is very directly about religion….

First up is: Oh My God.

Description is:

Mumbai shopkeeper Kanji Bhai files a lawsuit against God when an earthquake destroys his store and his insurance policy won’t cover the damage. A motorcycle-riding modern-day Krishna arrives to guide Kanji as the public reacts to the court case.

If you can, watch this movie some time this week and Saturday March 15th we’ll talk about it here!