One Line Review: Steer clear of this Akshay Kumar starrer.
YouTube Trailer Laxmii
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kiara Advani, Sharad Kelkar, etc.
Director: Raghava Lawrence.
What is it about?
In Short:
A man gets possessed by a transgender’s ghost who seeks revenge for her death.
In Long:
Laxmii is a remake of the Tamil movie ‘Kanchana’, a story of how a man is possessed by multiple ghosts out of which one is transgender and how it seeks revenge through him for its death. Raghava Lawrence who acted and directed Kanchana directed Laxmii starring Akshay Kumar in the lead role.
“Laxmii, previously called Laxmmi Bomb, seems to have been assembled as it went along, with not one coherent thought through it.”
~ The Indian Express
And we agree, this poorly made remake deserves a rating of 03/10.
Story/Plot
Asif is married to Rashmi and the couple is away from her parents due to the obvious reasons for their inter-caste marriage against their will. Both of them return to Rashmi’s house after a long time to celebrate Rashmi’s parents’ wedding anniversary. Asif, who generally doesn’t believe in ghosts gets possessed by ghosts of a transgender woman and her family. The rest of the story is how Laxmii seeks vengeance through Asif for the cruel injustice that happened to her.
Yes, those who have already watched the blockbuster south Indian movie ‘Kanchana’ will already know what the plot is going to be. Yet, people were looking forward to Lakshmi for two obvious reasons, 1 – Akshay and 2 – Lawrence. This kind of a movie perhaps would have been a standout among the cliched horror movies of Bollywood.
Review
First of all, if a movie has been remade, it is done so to include all the best parts of the original. Surprisingly, in Laxmii, they have removed whatever was good in Kanchana and stuffed the movie with more unnecessary meaningless happenings.
Throughout the movie, you will be forced to wait for something interesting to happen but then comes the end credits. And a heads-up: Don’t be surprised if you see Akshay and Kiara dancing in Dubai out of the blue without any reason.
There was no ease in the flow of the screenplay from the start. The story felt like bits and pieces of things glued together improperly. There was no horror and definitely no comedy. There was even not enough Laxmii in Laxmii, to be honest.
Akshay Kumar’s performance is one thing that will make you feel okay when you force yourself to sit through the whole movie trying to figure out what is happening. Apart from that, Sharad Kelkar who did the part of Laxmii was a treat to watch.
Verdict
Laxmii is like an attempt of that kid who doesn’t know which exam is going on but still anyway manages to copy the answers from a nerd, ignoring all the good parts from his answer sheet.
It is better to watch the original version of the movie with subtitles if you want to know what Laxmii would have looked like in its best version.
