OMG 2 review: Hamare priy Pankaj Ji!

OMG 2Director Amit RaiActors Akshay Kumar Pankaj Tripathi Yami Gautam DharRating 35First off OMG 2 gt Oh My God 2012 Also different to a point that this could well have been the comedy Jolly LLB 3mdashbumbling lawyer warm judge genial Pawan Malhotramdashinstead of OMG 2 Therersquos been some forcefitting of thoughtintent here in order to fit a franchiseAs with the prequel starring Paresh Rawal based on the Gujarati play Kishen vs Kanhaiya whatrsquos the obscure courtcase being fought in the film Between a shopowner in Ujjain one Kanti Ji vs himselfmdashthe defense is also the prosecutionThe formerrsquos guilt being he hasnrsquot normalised sex for his teenage son enoughmdashconfusing the poor kid further And this is where he brings in the boyrsquos school quacks and pharmacist as equally guilty parties to defend the said caseBut OMG 2 isnrsquot a film on sex education per se Such as say lsquoGupt Gyanrsquo that I accidentally watched in Rivoli a grindhouse theatre in Delhi growing upmdashpacked with strange old men nearly jerking off to naked images of women in a designated lsquomorning showrsquo slotted for a sexed documentaryThatrsquos the level of sexual repression Indians were accustomed to in the rsquo90s Even if Indiarsquos Censor Board doesnrsquot get it stillmdashmuch has changed to the level of a revolution since Largely thanks to universal Internet accessThatrsquos whatrsquos made OMG 2 possible It is a film on pulling the lid of shame associated with sexual intercourse in the worldrsquos populous country where most of us have grown up calling even our own lsquoprivate partsrsquo ldquoShame ShamerdquoThe film has been certified fit for 18 Well desi adults deserve this debriefing delivered as popular entertainment just as much They will hopefully pass these lessons on to their kids subsequently The sheer beauty of the filmrsquos writingdialogue Amit Rai Road to Sangam is in its clarity of thoughtBacked with adequate researchmdashquoting Panchtantra Kaurav Shastra Charak Samhita the Shiv ling etcmdashthe film strongly argues that if yoursquore being squeamishprudish over matters of sex in modern India yoursquore actually going against established tenets of our own ancient wisdomYoursquore being lsquoantiHindursquo as it weremdashif I may borrow a popular phony RightWing rhetoric The filmrsquos lines hit the nail in Dolby sound This introduction of Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma culturephilosophy explains lsquoGodrsquo in the moviersquos title And of course therersquos God on screen as wellThatrsquos Akshay Kumar in an extended cameo and item song as Lord Shiva Hersquos Godsend actually As per Indian Censors you canrsquot play Lord Shiva it appears No such issue when Akshay arrived as Lord Krishna in the filmrsquos 2012 prequel So Lord Shivarsquos lookalike character is sent over by Lord Shiva to help the hero Kanti Ji win his case in courtOne of the Godsendrsquos teachings I must say collegiate debaters apply really well to clinch argumentsmdashalways ask questions and more questions The other I liked is to be explicit with the truth Finally itrsquos not what you say but how you word it that matters Fine stuffFrankly Irsquove watched OMG 2 one and a half times already First time on I had to exit the press show a little after the interval due to a family emergency I returned to the theatre the following day to finish the filmIn between the only thought about the picture going through my mind was its phenomenal pointpurpose Not so much the plot And thatrsquos not always a good thingIn fact the rushed opening scenes after shots of Naga Babas at the Ujjain Kumbh Melamdasha teenaged boy whorsquos overdosed on Viagra plus vague garbled stuff on a video of him masturbating in school gone viral etcmdashdoesnrsquot help with comfortably settling into the seatmovie Once you do therersquos only one thing to look adorably in awe atThatrsquos Shri Shri 108 Pankaj Tripathi Ji as Kanti Ji dropping lsquosatya vachanrsquo truth bombs Writerdirector Rai has similarly dealt with a societal taboo menstrual hygiene with the unreleased Ipad based on social entrepreneur Arunachalam Murugananthamrsquos lifeThe Bhopali lead in that movie I felt totally lacked charisma Something that Akshay bettered a couple of years later with Pad Man 2018 on the same subjectWhat Rai gets in return is a scenechewing star this time whorsquos naturally blessed with a silver tongue and earthy demeanourexpressions that essentially connect with audiences at the eyelevelThey donrsquot need to look up or down just look at himmdashslightly chubby cheeks as if with paan in his mouth spreading lsquomithaasrsquo sweetness uttering the most profound things with a lightness of touch that no Indian actor I know can match This script lands because of the protagonist piloting the picFew years before Pankaj Ji became the pleasurable OTT sensation Irsquod hosted a couple of conversations with him before a live audience wondering each timemdashwhyrsquos he not a lsquogodmanrsquo yet Hersquos a staractor Same thing Since hersquos the MSG Messenger of God of this OMG considered it delivered surely

OMG 2 review: Hamare priy Pankaj Ji!

OMG 2
Director: Amit Rai
Actors: Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi, Yami Gautam Dhar
Rating: 3/5

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OMG 2 review: Hamare priy Pankaj Ji!

OMG 2Director: Amit RaiActors: Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi, Yami Gautam DharRating: 3/5

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OMG 2
Director: Amit Rai
Actors: Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi, Yami Gautam Dhar
Rating: 3/5