Akshay Kumar performed Lord Krishna in OMG – Oh My God!
Akshay Kumar’s OMG – Oh My God! went on to develop into a success on the field workplace and a sequel was made this yr.
Filmmaker Umesh Shukla revealed that Akshay Kumar wasn’t eager on portraying the position of Lord Krishna of their 2012 movie OMG – Oh My God! Initially, Akshay had doubts as a result of Amitabh Bachchan, who performed God in God Tussi Great Ho (2008), didn’t obtain a lot reward for his efficiency. Umesh is presently selling his upcoming movie Aankh Micholi, starring Abhimanyu Dassani, Paresh Rawal, Mrunal Thakur, Divya Dutta, Vijay Raaz, Abhishek Banerjee, and Sharman Joshi.
Recalling the second he approached Akshay Kumar for the position of Krishna in OMG, Umesh, throughout a chat with Hindustan Times, shared, “When we told Akshay bhai about this, initially he had that thing. ‘This is a God, how will I play God’s character?’ He was in a double mind at that time, because there was another film that had released around that time and it featured Bachchan sir as a God but it did not quite work. So he (Akshay) thought ‘How will I play God’s character when Bachchan sir could not’. For him, it was like this. But when he saw the play (Kanji Virudh Kanji, Umesh Shukla’s play on which the film was based), he understood. It (Akshay’s role) was a quite fleshed-out character. So he agreed soon.”
Amitabh Bachchan portrayed the character of God within the 2008 movie God Tussi Great Ho, which starred Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra. Directed by Rumi Jaffery, the movie additionally included Beena Kak and Anupam Kher within the forged. Unfortunately, God Tussi Great Ho did not impress on the field workplace and ended up being one of many largest flops of that yr.
On being requested if he was skeptical of making a God’s character, Umesh mentioned, “No, I didn’t get it (while making the film). Because I had already done the play. My homework was already ready. I had seen its live response in the play. So in the experiment, it was like this – I get an audience (who buy) tickets worth ₹50 and then there are those who buy tickets for ₹500 or even ₹750 maybe. (I had seen the) unanimous reaction of all those people. So I was not really skeptical. Of course, when I was (skeptical) while writing it. When we were creating the character.”
A number of years again, there have been rumours that Umesh had an idea for OMG 2 and was in discussions with the producers. However, the discussions didn’t come to fruition and Amit Rai made the sequel that was launched earlier this yr. Refuting the claims, he mentioned, “No, no, no. I was working on some other script. That’s why it didn’t materialise. And this film (OMG 2) is also very good. Very good. And Amit (director Amit Rai) is a very dear friend who made the film. He made a very good film. The characters were (already) in place, they were already there. What was the best thing to do about it then? (Get a good script involving those characters) And, he (Amit) came up with a really good script. And it really worked.”
