Pankaj Tripathi plays the devotee of the Lord Shiva, played by Akshay Kumar, in the OMG 2 trailer, which released earlier this week. Apart from the heart-pounding tune and the breathtaking Varanasi panoramas, the trailer revealed very little about the movie’s narrative.
Following the release of the teaser, a post began making the rounds on social media claiming that OMG 2’s story revolves around homosexuality and required sex education. It read, “A gay guy who gets bullied in college and commits suicide. Hurt by it, the college professor (Pankaj Tripathi) tried to make sex education compulsory so that students could learn and bullying will reduce. The religious oppose it calling it ‘against God’s will’. The case follows with the help of Lord Shiva (Akshay Kumar)”.
All rumours concerning the movie’s plot, according to a source close to the production team, are untrue. The same was quoted, “The rumours that the film will deal with the subject of LGBTQ are completely baseless. There is not even an ounce of truth in such reports. While we understand there is a lot of curiosity around what the film’s subject is, it will be really better if people wait for the makers to release more information about the subject, instead of believing all such rumours.”
It was also claimed that the examining committee forwarded the movie to the revision committee while OMG 2 was being considered for certification by the CBFC. However, a different source from the film’s production team denied these rumours, telling DNA that there is no problem and that the producers have not yet been made aware of any issues with the film’s certification procedure.
The film OMG 2 is a follow-up to the 2012 satirical comedy-drama OMG – Oh My God!, in which Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar played their actual selves. The movie opens in theatres on August 11 and will compete at the box office with Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel’s patriotic drama Gadar 2, which is a follow-up to the 2001 hit of the same name.
