Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s ‘Laxmmi Bomb’ is all set to release on the OTT platform ‘Disney+Hotstar’. Now that the film nears its release (November 9), netizens have been demanding a ban on the release of the film. And now, Twitterati is trending #ShameOnUAkshayKumar on the microblogging site.
Recently, an inter-faith advertisement released by Titan Ltd owned jewellery brand Tanishq had outraged netizens. A group of social media users believed that the advertisement promoted ‘Love-jihad’ and was anti-Hindu in sentiment. #Boycott Tanishq trended all day on Twitter on Monday, with many asking for a ban on the controversial advertisement.
Followed by this, now #ShameOnUAkshayKumar is trending on Twitter today as in the upcoming movie the actor has played a character of a Muslim boy, Asif and Kiara Advani will be seen as Hindu girl, Priya.
Netizens are urging everyone to boycott ‘Laxmmi Bomb’ for various reasons:
Laxmmi Bomb was even downranked on IMDB. However, all this took a toll on a 2017 film titled Tikli and Laxmi Bomb, created by independent filmmaker Aditya Kripalani. Mistaking it for Laxmmi Bomb, trolls downranked Aditya’s film, which had a TRP of 4.3 out of 5 in IMDB.