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Makers of Laxmmi bomb drop 'bomb' from title, to be known as Laxmii now

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Shivani Negi
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Akshay Kumar and Kiara Advani starrer Laxmmi Bomb has been at the centre of controversies for its title. After much criticism from Karni Sena and protest from few other Hindu Groups, the makers have finally changed the name of the film and have removed the word 'bomb' from the title.

"New development: Laxmmi Bomb title changed. New title: Laxmii," trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted to confirm the news.

Directed by Raghav Lawrence, the film will be premiered on Disney + Hotstar on 9 Novemeber. Laxmii is the Hindi remake of Tamil hit called Kanchana.

The development came in a day after Karni Sena sent a legal notice to the makers, demanding the title to be changed. The legal notice has alleged that the film's title is derogatory and demeaning towards Goddess Laxmi. It further claimed that the makers have purportedly added the word Laxmmi to hurt "ideology, customs, gods and goddess of Hindu religion.

Earlier, in an interview with PTI, the director of the film said that he changed the title from Kanchana to Laxmmi bomb to add to the "appeal" of the Hindi audience. "Our Tamil film was named after the main lead character Kanchana. Kanchana means 'gold' which is a form of Lakshmi. Earlier I considered going the same way for the Hindi remake but we collectively decided that the name must appeal to the Hindi audience as well and what better than Laxmmi," he told PTI.

Recently, Shaktimaan creator Mukesh Khanna had also expressed dissatisfaction over the title of the film. In a lengthy note on Instagram, he had said that the word 'Bomb' was added to incite "commercial interest" to the film.

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