OMG 2 Review: The film stars Akshay Kumar as Messenger of Lord Shiva, Pankaj Tripathi as Kanti Sharan Mudgal, Yami Gautam as Kamini Maheshwari, along with Arun Govil, Govind Namdev, Pavan Malhotra, Brijendra Kala and others. The satirical comedy-drama was written and directed by Amit Rai. The cinematography is by Amalendu Chaudhary, and the editing is done by Subir Nath. The runtime is approximately 155 minutes.
OMG 2 Review Contains No Spoilers
In OMG 2, Kanti Sharan Mudgal, a Lord Shiva devotee, has to fight for his son, Vivek. A video of Vivek masturbating in the school toilet goes viral, and he gets expelled. Kanti believes that if his son were taught what’s right and wrong about sex, he would not get influenced by the wrong methods and people. He takes the matter to court and sues the school authorities and everyone responsible for his son’s suffering. Along with bringing justice to his son, Kanti also sheds light on the importance of sex education.
The conversation about Sex Education for school-going students is crucial and necessary. But OMG 2 would have initiated the discussion a LOT better without adding any religious angle. The movie fails to engage us after establishing what’s happening with Kanti and his son. Most of the first half is wasted in words and actions that fail to make a substantial point.
The second half has only occasional noteworthy moments. Except for a few good points raised about the good-bad touch, the impact of pornography and misinformation, the courtroom drama offers nothing pivotal to highlight the importance of Sex Education. The progress in the plot is as bad as the progress of Kanti’s character to clearly express what he’s fighting for! What made the viewing experience even worse was the dialogue. The actors speak in Shudh Hindi, and not everyone understands the big words. Some words were so tough that even the actors delivered them badly, making them unclear.
I understand that 2012’s OMG became widely popular after its release, and that’s why we have a sequel now. But the lack of creativity and originality in the last 30 minutes of Part 2 is highly disappointing. It seems like nowadays filmmakers include dialogues or monologues with the intention of making them viral on social media. The shallow woke dialogues in the 10 minutes and the quick change of heart scene don’t sit with the narrative that was crawling to make sense.
In the first film, Kanji Lalji Mehta (Paresh Rawal) was an atheist, so him not realising God was helping him was understandable. But that exact logic doesn’t apply to someone who believes in God. Kanti, a faithful Shiv bhakt, fails to figure out God is helping him in a not-so-subtle and non-mysterious way. It’s hard to believe that Kanti is unable to grasp what Akshay’s character has been doing.
Director-Writer Amit Rai was so focused on making the movie only about Sex Education that he hardly concentrated on mental health issues. The entire scandal makes Kanti’s son suicidal. It’s agonising to see the person who went through so much was mostly quiet and withdrawn from everything. Also, if one takes a shot every time someone says ‘selfie’ and ‘hath’ (hand) in the film, they’d pass out from being excessively drunk.
Another major issue in the weakly written story is Akshay Kumar. In the 2012 film, I used to look forward to seeing Akshay appear on the screen and cleverly say something to Kanji. But in OMG 2, Akshay’s Messenger of God felt forced and disconnected from the main issue. His presence, intended to bring hope and help, felt more like a disturbance. Akshay’s look as God’s Messenger was unappealing.
Pankaj Tripathi gave a good performance as Kanti Sharan Mudgal. The actor excels in playing characters (fathers) that exude comfort. But in court scenes, the consistent confusion on Kanti’s face felt like even Tripathi was trying to deduce what was happening. The poor storytelling and execution rob him of the opportunity of delivering better.
The way Yami Gautam would talk to the witnesses made her look more like a psychopathic killer than a lawyer. The actor kept stressing certain (insulting) words to convey her character’s “narrow-mindedness”, and it was bothersome, just like the constant close-up shots of her face.
OMG 2 Review: Final Thoughts
Overall, the sex education drama severely struggles to make a solid point till the end. The religious angle does no good at all. The base is weak. Hence neither the plaintiff nor the defendants provided impactful exchanges that intrigued us in the first part.
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Who’s this uneducated girl, to write this unjustified review about such beautiful movie
Beautiful ? Pehli baat jab kuch pta na ho toh bolna nahi chahiye, i think i will abuse you after looking at your comment, becuase you are bael buddhi aur moti chamdi, who didn’t understand what happened in the film, what does the lord shiva character support? masturbation????????????????????? and what happened in the climax, they are telling people that masturbation is healthy and totally normal, aur fir ek ladka a kehta, i masturbate, matlab kya? Bhagwaan kasam agar mughe chance milta na toh climax. K vakht parda faad deta
reply to @Brutal Honesty: Finally, someone who understands the reality of Bollywood! I mean, how could they not see what was right in front of their eyes? If we look at masturbation as an act of lust (lust being any activity aimed at sense gratification), then masturbation qualifies as a lusty activity based on Bhagavad-gita (3.37), when Lord Krishna declares the that lust is the greatest enemy of the soul, using the word mahā-pāpmā (महापाप्मा). Here is the full Sanskrit text of the mentioned verse: श्री भगवानुवाच – काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः । महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम् ॥ ३७ ॥
Hence, masturbation is a sinful activity aimed only at gratifying the senses. If one has sex-life within the bounds of marriage, and that too only for the purpose of begetting children, then this sort of sex life is actually representative of Krishna Himself, who claims also that He is that form of lust which is not contrary to religious/spiritual principles: “I am form of lust [of which sex-life is chief] which is not contrary to religious principles, O lord of the Bhāratas [Arjuna].” (Bhagavad-gita: 7.11)