Is Laxmii changing Akshay's name?

Even before Akshay Kumar's Laxmii starts streaming on November 9, it is already being talked about as the blockbuster of the year.

An Akshay Kumar starrer is a budgetary event and as the first Akshay film on the digital platform, Laxmii has a responsibility to the box office.

The title Laxmmi Bomb was truncated to Laxmii to appease sentiments.

One had heard that the producers were toying with the idea of a last minute name change for Akshay's character.

In the film, he is called Asif and the heroine Kiara Advani is called Priya.

According to some right-wing elements, this amounts to a love-jihad relationship.

"Rather than risk it, they thought of doing some more appeasement, and change Akshay's name," a source tells Subhash K Jha.

But better sense prevailed and Akshay is still Asif in Laxmii.