Update : Akshay Kumar drops Bomb from title -BanLaxmmiBomb hashtag gets trending - Akshay Kumar faces heat on Tamil remake

 

After censoring, producers including Akshay Kumar told censors to give a certificate with the name Bomb in the title. So it is Laxmii Akshay Kumar has learnt that if you become a turncoat, then face the music. He defended Bollywood and said drugs do exist like in every industry and asked media to not generalize it .  NCB was then interrogating a battery of actors suspected of drug links . This out of synch with the probe initiated after Sushant’s death has hurt those who felt that Akshay has let them down. The trailor – title and poster of Laxmmi Bomb has led to creation of  hashtags - ShameonAkshayKumar ,BoycottLaxmmiBomb s that are trending. After Tanishq Ad, this film is said to most targeted for promoting Love Jihad and like  Sadak 2 will face heavy online hate reviews.   

The reason cited by LaxmmiBomb haters is many. One is the hero name is Asif and the ghost that possess him is a Hindu transgender woman called Laxmi. So Laxmi the Goddess  of wealth is depicted as a transgender ? The poster has a backdrop of Goddess Laxmi on it and it shows Hindu Gods in bad light. How dare you call our Goddess Laxmi a Bomb ? Laxmi is our Mata. A tweet -It’s India not Canada. Yahan Devi Devtaon Ki puja Ki Jati Hai Mazaak Nahi Banaya Jata!. Apart from all this the hero Asif has a GF called Priya – Love Jihad again. One tweet said -I thought u were different from all those bunch of Bollywood jokers!
But u too r same!
Why didn’t u name ur upcoming movie as AYESHA-BOMB ? Why u named it Laxmi-bomb?
So u mean to insult HINDU-RELIGION Right?
We will show u our reactions

To top it all two more fuels to the raging fire - Shabina Khan  producer of Laxmi Bomb  is allegedly a Kashmiri separatist. No friend of Hinduvata , Aamir Khan tweets – What a great trailor and waiting to see the film. Now the Hinduvata forces are divided on the silence of their leaders on the sacrilegious LaxmiBomb. One section feels that as Akshay is a Modi supporter, the issue is being brushed under the carpet. They are asking why Arnab Goswami is not screaming and asking for a ban. ( Arnab has now to scream about BARC and Mumbai police to save his pants )

 Akshay getting  the National Award with Priyadarshan as Chairman of jury was seen as a Hinduvata gift. Priyan had headed a TV channel that promotes BJP. Akshay has donated the highest sum ever by an individual to the PMCares fund. Tushar Kapoor is the co-producer of  the film .  Now Raghava Lawrence the director- actor who did the original and remakes it in Hindi says they wanted to retain the original name Kanchana which means golden in Sanskrit and later to suit Hindi audience it was made as Laxmi. The Bomb tag came as the character is like a firecracker throughout the film and also that the film is releasing for Diwali. He did not think that changing the Hindu name of  the original movie character to a Muslim in Hindi would later be a problem. Both the roles are done by Akshay in Hindi.  In the Tamil version, Lawrence  plays Asif role which is called Raghava and Laxmi role is Kanchana acted by Sarath Kumar.

The Raghava Lawrence team says that the film is actually a mix of Muni and it sequel Kanchana . The producers Khan and Kapoor wanted to throw out Lawrence as he was according to them outdated in filmmaking craft. They designed a poster and released it on their own. Lawrence decided to quit on that day but Akshay Kumar took over the dealing with him and everything went on smooth. Lawrence team says that their boss a Christian by birth added Raghava to his name as he is a devotee of Raghavendra Swami. He has publicly announced that he would join Rajinikanth’s  political party.  

Another fall out of the anti-LaxmiBomb campaign is  that a little noticed Aditya Kriplani film – Tikli and Laxmi Bomb is getting attacked by irate netizens on Google review. Tikli and Laxmi bomb – a book based on sex workers, their lifestyle and the fight to run their community by women and for the women, has been adapted into a feature film. Actresses Chitrangada Chakraborty and Vibhawari Deshpande play Tikli and Laxmi respectively. It also has Suchitra Pillai essaying a pivotal role in this film.