A Big Yes to this- OMG 2 Movie Review

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Happiness and Pride are the two emotions in my heart as I finish watching OMG 2 on Netflix today. A brilliant narrative, superb acting, the perfect balance of social message and humor, and to top it all, handling of a sensitive and much required subject in the most effortless manner.

We live in a society where

  • Parents live in the denial that their adolescent children might be going through a stage of curiosity for both their own bodies as well as towards the opposite sex. They stand against dating but expect you to create babies with a stranger whom you just met in your adult life.

  • The page no. for the chapter of Reproduction is a big old joke for the entire class through the entire school year (ironically either skipped by the teacher or hurriedly completed in half a period).

  • 20 year olds becoming moms to 3 kids without having a clue how their periods or menstrual cycle works.

  • Men in their adulthood have the porn they watch as the best reference for good sex with little or no clue about actual intimacy.

The above and a lot more makes OMG 2 not just a great movie but a very very needed movie, especially in the era we are living. It’s not some Bridgerton world where you could prevent young women from knowing about “the birds and the bees” till you get them married. We live in the era of mobile phones, internet and social media.

The truth is simple. If you don’t talk to your kids and teenagers about it as parents and teachers, then the internet is gonna do that. And what they will come out of learning from the internet has no boundaries. Confusing information, wrong information, misguiding information, dangerous information- they are all out there.

Not just the internet but there are all kinds of sources of misinformation out there which the movie makes an effort to cover.

“Not my boy” or “Not my girl” is just equivalent to being blind. You might see your teenager as a child but you have no clue what they might have already gone through say slut shaming, heartbreak or worse, abuse and suicidal thoughts.

OMG 2 is the kind of movie which every parent and educator should feel inspired from. It’s not your regular 2 hours of entertainment that you can leave behind in the theatre. And a rare achievement of the movie is that it manages to retain its lighter moments and gives us a good laugh here and there.

Of course the movie boasts of some great acting by the likes of Pankaj Tripathi, Yami Gautam and Akshay Kumar. Aarush Verma, the kid who plays Pankaj Tripathi’s son nails his role and makes your heart go out for him.

One actor who deserves a special mention here is Pavan Malhotra as the Judge. In courtroom dramas, the casting for the character of the Judge can make or break the deal. Just as I love Saurabh Shukla in the Jolly LLB franchise, the role of Judge Purushottam Nagar was also one to laud.

The movie raises some hard hitting and thought provoking questions on parenting and the education system. Some of them you can figure out, some you can’t. Some of them you can implement, some you might not.

But it answers one simple question on Parenting in the simplest manner- You support and trust your child in the face of adversity. It can’t be stated enough what the support of parents can do for a child’s confidence even if the society is hell bent on making them feel bad. Kids are not to be shamed. They are to be shown right from the wrong by someone they can place their trust in.

The easiest thing you can take away from the movie is to just remember to stand by your kid in the face of wrong just like Kanti Sharan Mudgal did.

Har Har Mahadev