‘Karram Kurram’ will be produced under the banner of Ashuthosh Gowariker Production. Glenn Baretto and Ankush Mohla who have assisted Ashuthosh in the past will be helming the movie.

Bringing to screen the tale of women empowerment, Karram Kurram narrates the story of a woman who started a women’s co-operative organization to bring together six other housewives to earn for their households.

The film, headlined by Kiara Advani marks the inception and rise of an FMCG conglomerate, establishing a monopoly in the commercial pappad market , under the women’s cooperative group.

The Mahila Griha Udyog organization has supported the households of thousands of women for over six decades now. The organisation, which is headquartered in Mumbai, has 81 branches and 27 divisions across the country. It was founded in 1959 by seven women in Girgaum with a seed capital of Rs 80. In 2018, it reportedly had an annual turnover of Rs 800 crore plus and provides employment to 43,000 women across the country.

Currently the Kiara Advani is gearing up for the release of her upcoming film Indoo Ki Jawani opposite Aditya Seal. Helmed by Bengali filmmaker Abir Sengupta, the female-centric film is touted to be a modern age love story based on the current trend of dating through online. The film will depict the story of Indoo Gupta, a feisty girl from Ghaziabad, whose left and right swipes with dating app results in hilarious chaos.

‘Indoo Ki Jawani’ is being bankrolled by Monisha Advani, Madhu Bhojwani with Nikkhil Advani and co-produced by Niranjan Iyengar and Ryan Stephen. It will hit the screens on 11 December 2020.

Kiara is currently shooting for ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo’ that also stars Varun Dhawan, Anil Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor.

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Amid huge pre-release hype elevated through controversies regarding the title and theme, Akshay Kumar’s new movie Laxmii was released on Disney+Hotstar on November 9. Directed by Raghava Lawrence, Laxmii is the remake of Tamil blockbuster Kanchana helmed by Lawrence himself.

A cliched theme

The film revolves around the life of Asif (Akshay Kumar), who is a rationalist. Asif is married to Rashmi (Kiara Advani). At one point in time, they decided to visit Rahmi’s parents who are living in a bungalow in Daman. Things soon get creepy when a supernatural power possesses Akshay Kumar’s body.

In old Indian movies, it will be the female protagonist who gets possessed by the ghost. But here, it is the male lead who gets possessed. However, the reason behind the demonic possession remains the same, and it has that old cliched theme where the ghost comes back to take vengeance against his feuds.

Laxmii fails to engage audiences

The film which falls under the horror-comedy genre literally failed to engage the audiences in its 140 minutes running time. The film is loaded with the same old stereotyped jokes, and some of them were stale which can be considered as an insult to the transgender community.

Even though the film was sold in the name of transgenders, Laxmii is nothing but a joke on the community. This movie too looks at this community as a group of violent people who demand justice by spilling blood.

A mediocre movie which is real torture

Laxmii is a film that is loaded with an ensemble star-cast. However, none of the actors including Akshay Kumar failed to impress the audiences. Kiara Advani had nothing much to do in this film, apart from running here and there out of fear.

Wonderful performers like Sharad Kelkar, Rajesh Sharma, Ayesha Raza Mishra, and Manu Rishi Chadha were completely wasted by the director in this movie.

Overall, Laxmii is nothing but a cliched horror movie with no elements of surprise. This film offers nothing new, and the makers would have considered dubbing Kanchana to Hindi before thinking about a remake.

Verdict: Better watch the original (1.5/5)

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kiara Advani

Director: Raghava Lawerence

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Laxmmi Bomb has no apparent links to nepotism – the lead actors Akshay Kumar and Kiara Advani are not starkids. It is directed by south filmmaker Raghava Lawrence, and produced by Cape of Good Films (Akshay’s company), Fox Star Studios, Shabinaa Entertainment and Tushar Entertainment House.

However, some netizens seemed to have been looking forward to hitting the dislike button on the Laxmmi Bomb trailer on YouTube, and were pretty disappointed to find that the Disney+ Hotstar had hidden the ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ numbers. Some opined that the makers were scared of public opinion.

Earlier the OTT platform has face a lot of backlash in the past when it released trailers of of the film Sadak 2, starring Alia Bhatt which got a record 13M dislikes.

Akshay himself seemed to irk SSR fans recently when he finally broke his silence on Sushant’s death and the investigation into an alleged drug problem in Bollywood. He admitted that drug use is a problem in the film industry but requested everyone to not view the entire industry as a place of wrongdoings.

Laxmmi Bomb is a comedy horror film written and directed by Raghava Lawrence in his Hindi directorial debut. It is a remake of the Tamil movie Muni 2: Kanchana, and the trailer promises a total mass entertainer will be releasing on November 9, 2020, on Disney+ Hotstar.

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