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Laxmmi, an upcoming Bollywood movie starring Akshay Kumar and Kiara Advani, is receiving renewed backlash for allegedly hurting Hindu sentiments. The film dropped the word “Bomb” from its title following social media outrage just a few days back. However, netizens have now expressed outrage over the movie’s new title as well as its alleged promotion of love jihad (a pejorative term used for inter-religious marriages/relationships between Muslim men and Hindu women) and are demanding a complete ban on its release on November 9.

Actor Tusshar Kapoor, who is venturing into production with Laxmii, said that the movie’s title was changed “keeping in mind the feelings of everyone who had or didn’t have any issue with the earlier title” and to maintain “peace and positivity.” As per the movie’s trailer, released on October 9, 2020, the film revolves around an inter-faith couple – Aasif and Priya. Twitter users have called out the movie’s makers for promoting love jihad. Additionally, netizens have attacked the makers on sacrilegious grounds for entitling a movie after Hindu Goddess Lakshmi and releasing the same on the occasion of Diwali. The widespread outrage has led #Ban_Laxmmi_Movie to trend on Twitter

What You Should Know:

#Ban_Laxmmi_Movie is trending on Twitter today.
Many users have expressed outrage over the movie’s alleged denigration of Hinduism and Hindu deities through its title and its alleged promotion of love jihad.
The movie’s title was recently changed to Laxmmi from Laxmmi Bomb.
However, many Twitter users are not satisfied with the name change and are demanding a complete ban on the movie’s release.

Love Jihad: Reel And Real
Last month, an advertisement released by jewellery brand Tanishq came under fire for showing a Muslim mother-in-law celebrating her Hindu daughter-in-law’s baby shower. Shortly after the outrage died down, a 21-year-old commerce student from Ballabhgarh, Haryana, was shot dead by a Muslim man called Tauseef for rejecting his marriage proposal. The incident only worsened the outrage over “love-jihad” which has refused to subside ever since.

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