OMG 2 director Amit Rai calls out CBFC’s ‘hypocrisy’ after OTT release announcement; asks if Rocky Aur Rani’s kissing scenes were ‘okay for kids’

He added, “They (the streaming platform) will show the same version that the Censor Board passed. Ab ispe aur kya hi kar sakte hain? Saare desh ne chilla chilla ke bola par phir bhi Censor Board ko sunaayi nahin de raha, toh koi kuch nahin kar sakta (What more can one do about it? The whole country was asking for it but the Censor board wouldn’t listen, so no one can do anything).”

Amit Rai then called out the “hypocrisy” and said that when he went to watch Gadar 2, which had a U/A certificate, a condom ad played before the film, while in his movie, a shot of a condom ad was asked to be removed. “The shot of a condom ad on a truck was cut from our film, but when I watched Gadar 2 in theatre, which is a U/A certificate film, a condom ad in which Kartik Aaryan asks a girl about her preferred condom flavour played before the film started. That can be shown? It is pure hypocrisy,” he said. Rai then said that even Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani had “so many kissing scenes” and asked, “Was it okay for kids to watch that?”

The director added that earlier the target audience of OMG 2 could not watch it in theatres and now, even the adults wouldn’t get to watch the film that they had intended to make. “Pehle target audience (teenagers) nahi dekh paaye humari film aur hum jo dikhana chahte the woh ab adults bhi nahi dekh payenge (Earlier, the target audience couldn’t watch our film and now, what we want to show, even the adults wouldn’t get to watch it).”

When OMG 2 released in theatres, Akshay Kumar, who is also one of the producers of the film, said during one of his theatre visits, “Kamaal ki baat bataun, pehli adult film hai joh teenagers ke liye bani hai. Actually yeh sab school main dikhana chahiye (The funny thing is that this is the first adult film which is made for teenagers. This should be shown in schools).”

OMG 2 got 27 cuts from the censor board and after the film’s release, Amit Rai told Bollywood Hungama that he sent many messages to the CBFC chairperson who did not reply. “I started telling them through the media that ‘Sir, I am folding my hands that you please make this UA because the intention was such that the families watch it. You have defeated its purpose.'”