ऊंची ऊंची वादी

Oonchi Oonchi Waadi (ऊंची ऊंची वादी) is a rousing Shiv-bhakti/Kanwar-style track from OMG 2 (2023), Amit Rai's comedy-drama starring Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi, and Yami Gautam. Composed by Djstrings with lyrics credited jointly to Kabeer Shukla, Hansraj Raghuwanshi, and Djstrings, the song is sung by Hansraj Raghuwanshi — a singer well known in North India for exactly this genre of high-energy Kanwar Yatra devotionals to Lord Shiva. Released by Zee Music Company on 18 July 2023, ahead of the film's 11 August theatrical release, the track leans into OMG 2's Mahakal/Ujjain-rooted plot about a father fighting for his son with the help of a Shiva-sent messenger (played by Akshay Kumar). With over 110 million YouTube views on its official video, it became one of the most-streamed Shiv-bhakti tracks released around the film and part of the wider wave of Kanwar-season devotional hits that circulate heavily each monsoon in North India.

Djstrings builds Oonchi Oonchi Waadi around the propulsive, dholak-and-synth-driven template of contemporary Kanwar Yatra music — a genre built for open-air, crowd-chanting performance during Shravan-month pilgrimages rather than cinematic subtlety. Hansraj Raghuwanshi's vocal delivery, raspy and full-throated, is the genre's signature sound; he is one of the best-known voices in this specific devotional-pop niche, and his casting on the track lent OMG 2's soundtrack instant credibility with the Kanwar/Shiv-bhakti audience that the film's Mahakal-rooted plot was courting.

The lyric opens with the image of Shiva dwelling in the 'high, high valleys' (oonchi oonchi waadi) of the Himalayas — classic Kanwar-bhajan imagery evoking Kailash — before moving into a devotee's declaration of lagan (deep devotional longing) and a promise to sing and sway lost in that devotion. The register is direct and chant-friendly rather than literary, built for a crowd to repeat the refrain rather than to be read as poetry, in keeping with the practical, participatory function of Kanwar Yatra songs.

OMG 2 follows Kanti Sharan Mugdal (Pankaj Tripathi), a pooja-items shopkeeper in the fictional temple town of Mahakal Nagri, who fights to overturn his son's expulsion from school after a video of the boy goes viral — with help from a Shiva-sent messenger played by Akshay Kumar. Directed by Amit Rai and released theatrically on 11 August 2023 to strong reviews, the film's plot is steeped in Mahakal/Shiva iconography, making a Kanwar-style devotional like Oonchi Oonchi Waadi a natural promotional fit — released on 18 July, just as that year's Kanwar Yatra season (tied to the Shravan month) was underway across North India.

Oonchi Oonchi Waadi's official Zee Music Company video has crossed 110 million YouTube views, with a separate lyrical upload adding tens of millions more — making it, by view count, the biggest individual song from the OMG 2 soundtrack. Its timing alongside the annual Kanwar Yatra season helped it become a staple of Shravan-month devotional playlists in North India, extending its reach well beyond the film's own theatrical and OTT audience.