Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Okay, let’s keep aside the fact that Laxmii is a remake of a Tamil hit film Kanchana. I watched the film before even having a glance at its original version. Raghava Lawrence has directed both these movies, so I assume that there might be no difference in terms of guiding the story, there might be few changes considering the fact that it is appealing to an all India audience. Alright, so let’s get to the actual point, the pros and cons of this film, and why it has washed off the expectations of the viewers completely.

Precisely, Laxmii is a film essaying the story of a transgender, aiming to present a social message at the end but the prologue of this story is simply away from the central theme of the story, which certainly makes the main aim a part of a joke which is running all over the 2 hours you’ve completely invested in.

It starts off well by establishing the pivotal characters of the story, Akshay Kumar plays Aasif and Kiara Advani is Rashmi, the story initiates with their love story followed by the family’s acceptance. It kicks starts well maintaining the courtesy of a horror-comedy. The film introduces new characters, all is perfectly fine as far as the conflict begins. As Laxmii’s story begins, (Aasif haunted by her ghost) the film seems like it is just trying to be funny without intending to.

A still from Laxmii

Intending to break the stereotypes and then filling a whole lot of it in the script sounds pretty uncomfortable. The viewers get bored at a time when the comedy goes off the track, dialogues so poorly written that even Akshay’s comic timings couldn’t save them. The story which needed to be apt after the conflict arises, falls very weak at that point only. People compared the film with Bhool Bhulaiyaa during the trailer release but there’s a tremendous difference in terms of writing and versatility of a horror-comedy.

Overall, Sharad Kelkar’s special appearance as the original Laxmii is undoubtedly impressive, Akki’s quite good in a few scenes but miserably fails due to poor acting. The rest of the cast tries to survive the plot but ends up with nothing. The story missed the point it claimed to make.

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