There was a time when it was mildly blasphemous – seen as ‘taking the lord’s name in vain’, an act of bad form among conservative Christians. For those who think that ‘Oh my gosh!’ would be a safer bet should remember that ‘gosh’ itself is a ‘minced oath’ – a euphemism that dodges the bullet of a blasphemous word like in the usage of ‘fudge’ – for god. The Akshay Kumar-starring 2012 satirical Hindi film OMG – Oh My God! proved to be a hit despite having religious undertones that could have got other movies in a pickle. A reasonable explanation for a movie that depicts a ‘
Vasudev Yadav from ‘ as a sweet-talking real estate agent not having cheesed off anyone is its secular angrezi title even if it contains the word ‘god’. Zor se bolo, Oh my god!