‘OMG 2’ movie review: Akshay Kumar and Pankaj Tripathi have a talk with society – The Hindu
By some coincidence, Manoj Bajpayee and Pankaj Tripathi — arch-enemies within the 2012 epic Gangs of Wasseypur — have each featured in courtroom dramas this 12 months that invoke Hinduism to rectify society. In Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai(on ZEE5), a strong if self-serious movie, Bajpayee excerpts a mythological storyline to carry a monstrous godman to ebook. Tripathi’s techniques are a lot the identical in OMG 2. Nonetheless, he additionally brings a comic book gentleness that’s identifiably the actor’s personal. Kamasutra, Khajuraho, Panchatantra; his character cites every part with a peaceful smile and a delicate voice. The few instances he raises his decibels in courtroom, it earns amusing.
OMG 2 follows up OMG – Oh My God!, a 2012 movie that satirised the sham of organized faith and starred Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Mithun Chakraborty. Rawal and Chakraborty — former parliamentarians each — have dropped off from the sequel; solely Kumar lingers on, as does the courageous Govind Namdev. The main focus of the brand new movie will not be faith however intercourse training in colleges, which explains why the makers had sought a UA certificates. The censor board, in its knowledge, ordered a bunch of modifications and granted it ‘A’ (Grownup) ranking. It additionally reportedly had Kumar’s character modified from Lord Shiva to a kind of ‘messenger’ of God (there may be already a unique franchise by that identify, that includes a convicted felon).
OMG 2 (Hindi)
The protagonist of OMG 2, Kanti Sharan Mudgal (Pankaj Tripathi), is a religious shopkeeper at a Hindu Shiva temple in Ujjain. We meet him in a bloom of orange; from the buntings and awnings on the temple premises to the tilaks and marigolds exchanged in prayer. Kanti lives in temple-allotted housing together with his spouse and two youngsters. It’s a easy, sedate existence, till the day his son, Vivek, is chucked from college. Kanti discovers the boy had taken intensely to masturbating after some bullies satisfied him he has a small appendage; later, the identical youngsters filmed him within the act and uploaded the video on-line.
A health care provider (Brijendra Kala) forewarns Kanti that kids who uncover masturbation expertise debilitating bouts of guilt. We witness this in real-time, as Vivek tries to finish his life and is rescued by a dreadlocked stranger with a beatific smile. This, in fact, is Kumar, a Shiva emissary buzzed in from upstairs for divine help. On his urging, Kanti — who accepts he’s been a less-than-perfect father — sues his boy’s college, in addition to all of the hucksters and miracle employees who misled his baby. He additionally sues himself, satisfied he’s as a lot in charge. Trying on in bewilderment are a choose (Pavan Malhotra) and a slick protection lawyer (Yami Gautam Dhar).
Kanti’s arguments in courtroom start foolish and simplistic however usually wind as much as a bigger level. Quoting from historic texts, he highlights the centrality of intercourse and sexual well-being in Indian society. To the movie’s credit score, even because it retains increasing the ambit of dialogue, it doesn’t really feel heavy. Tripathi pulls a Ted Lasso act (each in its cheeriness and inbuilt annoyance). The movie has an insistently jokey method. Rai is okay together with his viewers guffawing at phrases like ‘hast-maithun’ and ‘intercourse employee’; as soon as they’ve laughed just a little and rigidity is dissipated, the movie presumes, a bigger realisation can daybreak.
Arguing for the liberalism embedded in Hindu philosophy, the movie makes use of Hinduism liberally. Kumar seems to relish the Shiva cosplay; a white bull follows him round wherever he goes. Each 10 minutes or so, we get a shot of a trident, a shiv lingam or a framed portrait of God. Kanti converts the courtroom right into a symbolic temple (Malhotra’s choose tries to protest, huffs, and provides up). Yami Gautam’s character is called Kamini; the Sanskrit phrase ‘kāma’, that means sexual want and pleasure, is alleged a number of instances.
But the movie is equally cautious. Kanti refers to an open and progressive previous — “When the world was taking child steps, our Sanatan Hindu faith was hovering,” he says proudly — but there is no such thing as a point out (even in passing) of the references to homosexuality in historic Indian texts. His ‘intercourse training is vital’ spiel upsets conservative teams throughout religions; we see Hindu, Muslim and Christian clerics protesting in unison on TV. OMG 2 is a greater movie than Ram Setu— it has the candour and appeal of fantasy — but it surely additionally resorts to predictable Macaulay-bashing close to the top to clarify the issues of Indian society.
The movie may have been shot and edited higher (the CGI, too, seems shabby). Geeta Agarwal Sharma is humorous as Kanti’s simply unnerved spouse. So is Kumar at instances; on one event, he drunkenly sings ‘Udja Kale Kawan’ from Gadar, the violent and overloud franchise OMG 2 is clashing with in theatres. Sunny Deol characters have a approach to make themselves heard. However let’s additionally take heed to Pankaj Tripathi.
OMG 2 is presently in theatres
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