Paresh Rawal claims Akshay Kumar's OMG 2 was his idea: ‘Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan, Karan Johar also knew it’
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Akshay Kumar -starrer OMG 2 (2023) was a critically acclaimed movie that also achieved box-office success. In a recent interaction, Paresh Rawal claimed that the movie's concept and idea originally came from him and that he developed the story that eventually became a part of the Oh My God! franchise. However, he alleged that despite coming up with the movie's concept and story, he was not given credit for it.
Adding to this, Paresh Rawal says Akshay Kumar-starrer OMG 2 was his idea. Paresh on developing the idea that became OMG 2 In conversation with Vickey Lalwani, Paresh shared that he approached filmmaker Amit Rai, the director of Road to Sangam, and shared an idea for a movie with him. Paresh was clear from the beginning that since he wasn't a writer, he would not write the movie but would contribute ideas and help identify where they were going wrong.
Meanwhile, Paresh shared that the story he had developed with Amit centred on a schoolboy who gets caught masturbating, following which a video of the incident goes widely shared and makes his life miserable. The boy's father was a tourist guide at the Khajuraho temple.
Notably, Paresh shared that Amit had suggested making the character a part-time priest at the Mahakal Temple. He claimed that after the basic idea was ready, they developed the script together and even brought sexologist Dr Prakash Kothari on board. He shared that they were deeply involved in the process.
As per the latest buzz, Paresh also opened up that he, along with Amit, pitched the idea to filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and later to Somen Mishra from Dharma Productions. However, Somen outright shared that it would not work.
In further updates, Paresh shared that when he developed the story, he wanted a biker to guide the father of the boy and never thought of bringing in a divine figure. He opened up that he even approached Ajay Devgn and Salman Khan for the biker's role but deliberately stayed away from Akshay Kumar because he didn't want people to think that the movie was a sequel to OMG!
On top of that, Paresh claimed that while he was under the impression that they were still figuring things out, Amit told him that Akshay Kumar was interested in the movie. Paresh shared that he believed the script reached Akshay through producer Ashwin Varde, and that's when they decided to rope in Akshay for the movie.
Paresh shared that he didn't want to fight with Amit because of their friendship. However, he repeatedly told him not to turn the movie into a franchise because it wasn't one, but they still went ahead with it.
Source: Hindustan Times