OH MY GOD:Sab Ka Bhagvan Ek [ Paresh Raval] [ Akshay Kumar ] 2012 Film
OMG – Oh My God! is a 2012 Indian Hindi language satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Umesh Shukla, The film's core plot is based on 2001 Australian film The Man Who Sued God, and produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, S Spice Studios, Grazing Goat Pictures and Playtime Creations. The storyline is based on a Gujarati stage-play entitled Kanji Virudh Kanji, originally written by co-writer Saumya Joshi, with Bhavesh Mandalia as an additional co-writer. The film stars Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal, along with Mithun Chakraborty, Om Puri, Govind Namdeo, Poonam Jhawer, Puja Gupta and Mahesh Manjrekar in pivotal roles.
Made on a budget of ₹20 crore (US$2.7 million), the film released on 28 September 2012 was praised for its themes and for Rawal's and Kumar's performance.
The film was remade in Telugu as Gopala Gopala in 2015 with Venkatesh, Pawan Kalyan and Shriya Saran. It was also remade in Kannada as Mukunda Murari in 2016 with Upendra and Sudeep. A second instalment is in development with Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi, and Yami Gautam.
Kanji Lalji Mehta (Paresh Rawal), a middle-class gujrati atheist, owns a shop of Hindu idols and antiques in Mumbai. He makes fun of religious activities around him and one such day, a low-intensity earthquake hits the city, and Kanji's shop is the only shop that is destroyed. His family and friends blame this on his atheism.
At the insurance office, Kanji learns that the disaster claim does not cover any damage caused by natural calamities classified under "Act of God". Running out of options, he decides to sue God but fails to find a lawyer for such a lawsuit. Hanif Qureshi (Om Puri), a poor Muslim lawyer, helps him file the case after Kanji decides to fight on his own. Legal notices are sent to the insurance company as well as to religious priests, Siddheshwar Maharaj, Gopi Maiyya, and their group's founder, Leeladhar Swamy (Mithun Chakraborty), summoning them to court as representatives of God.
As the court case commences and gains traction for its bizarre quality, Kanji finds himself facing armed fundamentalists and harassment, with his mortgage bank occupying the house, and his wife and kids leaving him. He is rescued from all of this by Krishna Vasudev Yadav (Akshay Kumar), who claims to be a real estate agent originally from Gokul, Uttar Pradesh, but appears to do fantastical tricks not possible for a human.
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