OMG – Oh My God!

OMG – Oh My God! Movie Details:

Based on	“Kanji Virrudh Kanji” The Man Who Sued God
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Genre	Comedy Drama Fantasy
Release date	28 September 2012
Running time	2hr 10min
Certificate	U
Starring	Paresh Rawal Akshay Kumar Mithun Chakraborty
Directed by	Umesh Shukla
Written by	Umesh Shukla Saumya Joshi Bhavesh Mandalia
Produced by	Akshay Kumar B.K. Modi Vikram Malhotra
Cinematography by	Sethu Sriram
Edited by	Tushar Shivan Rajesh Panchal
Music by	Score: Amar Mohile Songs: Himesh Reshammiya Sachin–Jigar Meet Bros. Anjjan
Production Company	Viacom18 Motion Pictures Spice Studios Grazing Goat Pictures Wave Cinemas
Distributor	Viacom18 Motion Pictures Wave Cinemas

OMG – Oh My God! Movie Cast & Characters:

• Paresh Rawal as Kanji Lalji Mehta
• Akshay Kumar as Krishna Vasudev Yadav
• Mithun Chakraborty as Leeladhar Swamy
• Om Puri as Advocate Hanif Qureshi
• Mahesh Manjrekar as Advocate Sardesai
• Govind Namdev as Siddheshwar Maharaj
• Murali Sharma as Laxman Mishra
• Nikhil Ratnaparkhi as Mahadev; Kanji’s employee
• Lubna Salim as Susheela Mehta (Kanji’s wife)
• Poonam Jhawer as Gopi Maiyya
• Yousuf Hussain Khan as Judge
• Jaineeraj Rajpurohit as Dinesh Gandhi, Chief Regional Manager of Saral Jeevan Insurance Company
• Nidhi Subbaiah as Shweta Tiwari (news reporter)
• Apoorva Arora as Jigna Mehta (Kanji and Susheela’s daughter)
• Azaan Rustam Shah as Chintu Mehta (Kanji and Susheela’s son)
• Honey Chhaya as Jagdeesh
• Krunal Pandit as Praveen
• Bhakti Ratnaparkhi as Mangala (Mahadev’s wife)
• Arun Bali as Accha Sadhu
• Pradeep Vengurlekar as Pujari
• Kukul Taramaster as Mishra’s right-hand man
• Nilesh Pandya as the Bhajan singer
• Pravin Naik as Besaniya
• Puja Gupta as Hanif’s daughter
• Suneel Chauhan as Aslam
• Shashi Omprakash Sati as Aslam’s sister
• Manju Vyas as Sardesai’s assistant
• Tisca Chopra as the interview host
• Prabhu Deva in a special appearance in the song “Go Go Go Govinda”
• Sonakshi Sinha in a special appearance in the song “Go Go Go Govinda”

Storyline:

Oh my God is a story about a human, Kanji Lalji Mehta who loses his shop in an earthquake. The shop is located in an area in Mumbai, known as Chor Bazaar. Kanji does not fear God and even puts God on ill use, for his benefit. After an earthquake disaster destroys his shop, his insurance claim is rejected and not paid due to the act of God clause in the insurance contract. Kanji lodges a claim against God in the court. The notice is sent to all bigger babas. The judge accepts Kanjis’s case. People are outraged at first and resist him but as the case progresses, eventually people side with him. A person who claims to be Bhagwan stays with Kanji eventually helping him. Initially against Krishna, soon other Gods and their religious leaders become embroiled in the case. Other people who have lodged complaints with insurance companies for disasters and been turned down also file claims besides Kanji’s claim. Soon the case becomes about the false worship and money-making business of the sages etc but Kanjis says all he has to do is prove with evidence God destroyed his shop with an earthquake. Which he does.

OMG – Oh My God! Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:

Budget	₹20 crores
Worldwide Collection	₹149.90 crore

About OMG – Oh My God! Movie:

Oh My God! is a Hindi satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Umesh Shukla and produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures,

Producer Akshay Kumar announced the film in 2012.

Paresh Rawal who appeared in the original play Kishen vs Kanhaiya was cast in the lead role with Akshay Kumar playing the role of Krishna in the movie.

Mithun Chakraborty played a supporting role in the film.

The filming was reported to have begun in January 2012.

Director Prabhu Deva appeared in an item number along with Sonakshi Sinha.

Made on a budget of ₹60 crore (US$7.5 million), the film released on 28 September 2012 was praised for its themes and for Rawal’s and Kumar’s performance.

OMG – Oh My God! released worldwide on 28 September 2012.

The movie was awarded the Best Hindi film award by Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS) during the second IRDS Hindi Film Awards for social concern. The film has won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 60th National Film Awards.

It was remade in Telugu as Gopala Gopala (2015) with Venkatesh, Pawan Kalyan, and Shriya Saran. It was also remade in Kannada as Mukunda Murari (2016) with Upendra and Sudeep.

A stand-alone sequel, OMG 2, with Akshay Kumar starring as Lord Shiva, along with Pankaj Tripathi and Yami Gautam in other lead roles, is slated to release on 11 August 2023.