Indian critics give nod to satirical comedy 'OMG 2'

‘OMG 2’ director-writer Amit Rai has meticulously touched upon the subject of sex education without making it sound frivolous or vulgar in the Akshay Kumar starrer satirical comedy film.

OMG 2 is the sequel of OMG which was released in 2012, in which an agnostic shopkeeper sues the Almighty when his curio store is destroyed in an earthquake, which his insurance company defines as ‘an act of God’. The film featured Akshay Kumar in the role of an avatar of Lord Krishna and Paresh Rawal as an agnostic shopkeeper.

Besides Akshay Kumar, OMG 2 features Pankaj Tripathi who plays the role of Kanti Sharan Mudgal, a shopkeeper who is a die-hard devotee of Lord Shiva. His life turns upside down when his son Vivek (Aarush Verma) gets admitted to the hospital due to exhaustion caused by excessive masturbation.

To save his family from being ostracised, Kanti decides to flee with his family, and that’s when enters the messenger of God, played by Kumar) to guide him and put him on a righteous path to fight for his son.

The movie also stars Yami Gautam in the movie. Amit Rai’s sensitively written satire makes a socially relevant story more effective. For Indian movie critics, the film raises a pertinent question about why people hesitate calling ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ with their original name instead of using the slang words. Moreover, the critics also appreciated how one of teh secenes showed how schools should impart sex education.

If the reviews are summed up, OMG 2 comes close to fulfilling its agenda of spreading the importance of sex education in a closeted cultured country like India.