Rahul Desai
A common man takes society itself to court, with a little help from a divine friend. OMG 2 is an extremely spiritual sequel to Umesh Shukla’s OMG – Oh My God! (2012), the hit satire that took aim at the commercial abuse of religion back when the world was a simpler place.
OMG 2 takes its mansplaining so literally that the ‘controversial’ incident is shaped by the very masculinity that’s responsible for the stigmatization of sex
You’d expect a girl’s trauma in a patriarchal nation to be the logical reason behind this social overhaul. You’d imagine women would have a say in a premise that pushes for the normalisation of physical pleasure.
He isinspired by an eccentric and super-woke fakir (Akshay Kumar) to fight for the kid’s dignity – which, for some reason, means dragging the school to court for not including sex education in their curriculum.
Played by Yami Gautam Dhar, who is treated by the film as a villain (complete with a chilling score) with no case to make for the misogynistic perils of Kanti’s quest.