Intolerance, says Kailash Kher, isn’t an attribute that’s becoming increasingly  prevalent  in Indian society alone. “Look at what’s happening across the globe anyway. There’s intolerance even in nature. The number of landslides that we see today is unprecedented. As for human beings, we’ve grown increasingly irritable. At a restaurant, if we don’t find something that we like, we’ll immediately run away. It has become part of our lifestyle. If we live on fast foods, isn’t that the kind of energy we will harbour as well? So, this intolerance is not specific to Indian society alone.”

Kher is addressing our questions on the apprehensions that a director like Amit Rai must have harboured while creating OMG 2, given that portrayal of Hindu deities always ignites strong reactions from certain sections of society. Pleasing each and every individual, he says, “isn’t a feat that even God could accomplish”. “Then how can we?” he asks, making a reference to atheists.