OMG 2 box office collection Day 1: Akshay Kumar’s film delivers decent opening of over Rs 10 crore amidst tough competition

While unspectacular, the opening day numbers of OMG 2 aren’t as bad as the Rs 2.5 crore day one haul delivered by Akshay’s Selfiee earlier this year. OMG 2 is facing tough competition at the box office from Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 in the north, and in the South from Rajinikanth’s Jailer and Chiranjeevi’s Bholaa Shankar. Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, starring Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh, is still occupying some shows as it enters its third week.

Akshay is coming off of a series of commercial under-performers. Before Selfiee this year, he starred in flops such as Samrat Prithviraj, Bachchhan Paandey, Raksha Bandhan and Ram Setu.

Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express, in her review of OMG 2, wrote that “the film never wavers in its intent, sneaking in taboo topics in its laugh-out-loud comic tone, and for that it ropes in the gods, which is a brilliant ploy: you get them on your side, you can get away with anything, even things that would ordinarily be deemed ‘ashleel’ (vulgar).”