Makers were ‘forced’ to take the so-called sting out of this ‘bomb’ before its release by forcing it to be re-christened as “Laxmii”, but looks like it was a dud bomb without “batti”. I wonder even a small lavangi phataka would make more noise than this Akki’s Diwali release. I am surprised to read that it is a remake of a Tamil super hit movie “Kanchana” and the same director dared to remake it in Hindi and would be kicking himself on his decision.
Not sure if I have to call this absurd movie a “horror-comedy” or a “horrible comedy” or “comical horror” or “horrendous comic”, better we leave it at “nonsensical absurd” movie. I am not sure what the writers were up to in making this an inter-religion, inter-gender (intermediate gender), inter-faith, enter-comedy exit-horror kind of show. The acting performances by everyone can be simply summed as over the top overacting, the dialogs were outrageously pathetic, and the only horrifying things in the movie were the totally meaningless songs and group dances ( there is one song about our own Majestic Burj Khalifa) and there is one outrageous “rap-Jagran” which can become a bone of contention in near future.
Akshay Kumar came out of his usual ‘Mr. India’ image for a change and wanted to try out something different, but utterly failed. I don’t know why he tried to ape Jim carry of Mask with his trademark chattering of teeth. He looked totally jaded with his wrinkled neckline, he looked more like a father to Kiara Advani who plays his love interest. All other supporting cast is simply loud. The only saving grace of the movie is Sharad Kelkar, who plays the transgender Laxmii (who gets murdered and whose Atma now possesses Akki’s body), after a majestic performance in Tanahaji, Sharad has raised his performance bar.
During my childhood, of all the Diwali crackers the “sutli bomb” used to be the one which produced the loudest noise, which was followed by the “laxmii bomb”, and the last on the scale of noise production was the “Lavangi phatakas” and “Ticklis” and there was one more class of bombs which were simply duds (fuske). This movie can be termed as “fuska baar”, hence can be avoided. (watch the original Tamil movie instead)
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