Akshay Kumar’s Laxmmi Bomb centers around his character getting possessed by the ghost of a transgender person. The trailer has already been a point of discussion as people wanted to boycott the movie and it has been in troubled waters ever since. Well, the movie is now in fresh trouble. Days before the film’s release on an OTT platform, the makers have reportedly received a legal notice from the Shri Rajput Karni Sena demanding a title change.

The legal notice was sent by advocate Raghavendra Mehrotra on behalf of Shri Rajput Karni Sena. As per the notice, Laxmmi Bomb, was being considered “derogatory” and “offensive” to Goddess Laxmi by the Hindu community. It further claimed that the makers had “deliberately” used the title Laxmmi Bomb with the sole purpose of lowering the “dignity” of and to show “disrespect” towards the goddess. It added that the name sends out a wrong message to the society at large towards the “ideology, customs, gods and goddesses of Hindu religion”.

Apart from the Karni Sena, actor Mukesh Khanna of Shaktimaan fame also slammed the movie’s title for being derogatory. He took to Instagram and wrote, "So TITLE ki hi baat karte hain. Laxmi ke aage Bomb jodna shararat se bhara lagta hai. Commercial interest ki soch lagta hai. Kya ise allow karna chahiye ? Obviously NAHEEN ! Kya aap Allah Bomb ya Badmash Jesus film ka naam rakh sakte hain ?Obviously NAHEEN !! To Phir Laxmi Bomb kaise !!!" 

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After the reports started to go viral, people on Twitter also started to bash Akshay for the title and demanded a change.

Why this bhakts are silent on title of @akshaykumar upcoming movie ‘Laxmi Bomb’ ??
Abb tumko nhi lag raha kya title ke zariyee Maa laxmi ka mazak bann raha ??
Agar yeh movie mei koi aur hero hota tho Abb tak tho boycott ki mangg utth jaati..hai na??🤷 @dhruv_rathee#LaxmiBomb

— AKΔSH (@ImASHH18) October 29, 2020

@akshaykumar Avoid making fun 🤡 of your own Hindu religion sir..
We respect you so much
I loved your all movies,
And will continue to love
But this time your upcoming movie- title #LaxmiBomb this is not fair
your movie is always good
But #LaxmmiBomb title pic.twitter.com/7EvcxfU9Ki

— Jitendra Kumar (@Jitendr09065464) October 29, 2020

@RSSorg
What RSS doing when such a worst movie eith title Laxmi Bomb is about to launch .Why we hindu not aware if se thing happan with other religion their leaders raise their voicesm

— saurabh rawat (@saurabh76578027) October 29, 2020

Good acting by @akshaykumar
But bad practice for choosing the title of Movie, please change it and don't make make fun of Hindus, why you target only Hindus to make fun.
Change you movie title and give a message to other producers #LaxmiBomb #byecottlaxmibomb @TusshKapoor

— Alok Singh Rana (@aloks1740) October 29, 2020

Ye kya bkwash title hai movie ka laxmi bomb km se km apse ye umeed ni tha.plz change the title. @akshaykumar

— sujit tiwari (@sujitti46585495) October 28, 2020

.@akshaykumar started & built his career playing worst kind of stalker- molester

Was even a jism ki garmi expert

Now, he shamelessly pontificates over sexual crimes as if he's not been an enabler

The least that hypocrites like him can do is publicly apologise for those roles pic.twitter.com/vBE8p5zanV

— Gems of Bollywood (@GemsOfBollywood) October 27, 2020

We wonder how would Akshay react to these allegations.

Do you also think the title is offensive? Let us know in the comments section below.

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