Two years after its release, OMG! Oh My God is in the news again. First, Rajkumar Hirani’s PK was said to be too similar to Umesh Shukla‘s OMG in terms of its core plotline. Later, a further shocker came when a national daily reported that Shukla had been offered a cool sum of 8 crore by Aamir Khan, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra to stop the shoot of OMG.
Flabbergasted, Umesh Shukla comes clear on all rumors – which in his own words are bullshit – making the rounds.
To set the records straight, were you offered 8 crore by PK team to opt out of OMG! Oh My God?
Bullshit. Yeh faaltu ke rumours kahan se aaye hain mujhe maloom nahi. There was nothing like that. Yeh bilkul jhoot hai. These (Aamir, Hirani, Chopra) are such good people, aisa kuch soch bhi nahi sakte.
Such kind of rumors are always on either extremes – either totally true or a complete figment of someone’s imagination.
Arrey, hum seedhe log hain, there is no filmipana in us. We are straight forward people. We just want to do a good job and give audience some good stuff. (Writer) Abhijat (Joshi) is a good friend of mine. If he makes something then I will go and watch it. I like his work. If this was true then it would have been a good news at the time when my film was getting ready for release. It would have made for such a good read that Aamir likes the core concept of my film so much. Agar yeh news failti toh meri hi film ko faayda hota.
Well, that should settle it once for and all.