Laxmii
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At
the end of Laxmii, I decided that I've seen enough of Akshay Kumar’s teeth for
one lifetime. Here he plays Asif, a Muslim married to a Hindu,who, for reasons
too convoluted to explain, becomes possessed by the spiritof a transwoman
Laxmii. When he is under her spell, Asif ferociously clicks his teeth and even
lets out a sort of war cry. We get so many close-ups that I started admiring how
clean Akshay’s teeth are. As I watched,
I
also wondered, how many communities will Akshay save?In Airlift, he saved
Indian migrantain the Middle East; In Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, he saved womenfrom
the humiliation of defecating outdoors; in Padman, he once again came to the
rescue,playing a man who creates low-cost sanitary napkins; in Kesari, as
Havaldar Ishar Singh,he rescues a fort and Sikh honor; and now as Laxmii, he
bats for transgendersand also throws in a few strokes for Muslimsand a child
with special needs.It’s a heavy load, which might be why his performancefeels
like it's been delivered in auto-pilot mode.
Laxmii
is the remake of a Tamil film called Kanchana, written and directed by RaghavaLawrence, who also played the lead in that film.In Kanchana, his character,also
called Raghava, isn’t heroic. He is a cowardly man, so afraid of ghosts that he
sleeps next to his mother and even insists that she accompany himto the
bathroom.Some of the pleasure in that film was watching this wimp transform
into the avenging angel Kanchana. Raghava has directed Laxmii, but perhaps him and
co-writers Farhad Samji, Sparsh Khetarpal and Tasha Bhambra who did the
adaptation and dialogue, didn’t want to risk downsizing their star.
So
Asif is some sort of ghostbuster. From his first scene itself, he is in savior mode,
rescuing people from fraud babas. Kanchana was made in 2011. It’s loud,
simplistic and problematic in terms of representation. But Raghava created
moments of cheesy funand it was satisfying to see Kanchana ultimately get her
revenge.The high pitch and stereotyping has not aged well and so much has been
lost in translation.The tweaks to the original have only made this version
worse.The interfaith marriage angle is laughably lame.
Kiara Advani plays Asif’s wife Rashmi. She
does little except calisthenic dancingat the Burj Khalifa and widening her eyes as
her husband behaves erratically. Rashmi’s family disowned her when she ran away
with Asif. They are offended that he's a Muslim but not one person seems to
notice the difference in age. The writing is awful.The message of inclusion is
noble,but also obviously fraudulent because the film itself contradicts it. There
is so much shrieking that it might induce a headache and the worst sin – the
ghost, before it enters Asif’s body,is basically this wig with a fan behind it.Were
we really expected to be afraid of flying hair?You can watch Laxmii on Disney +
Hotstar.
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