The Laxmmi Bomb's trailer hit Youtube today and a few days ago the lead actor of the film, Akshay Kumar drew flak earlier, for defending the film industry against rampant allegations of drug abuse, led to netizens boycotting the film on social media. Trolls soon began targetting the film's trailer on the video-sharing platform by simply hitting the ‘dislike’ button, as observed in the case of the films ‘Sadak 2’ and ‘Khaali Peeli’. However, the makers of ‘Laxmmi Bomb’, noticed the increasing hate for its lead actor, and decided to hide the number of likes and dislikes on its trailer.
The OTT platform has faced a lot of backlash in the past when it released trailers of the film Sadak 2 starring Alia Bhatt. Akshay himself seemed to irk SSR fans recently when he finally broke his silence on Sushant's death and the investigation into an alleged drug problem in Bollywood. He admitted that drug use is a problem in the film industry but requested everyone to not view the entire industry as a bed of vice.Some of his fans urged other Twitter users to refrain from blind rage and not hate on Laxmmi Bomb's trailer just for the heck of it. Meanwhile, the trailer garnered 264,937 views in over an hour of release. Laxmmi Bomb is a comedy horror film written and directed by Raghava Lawrence in his Hindi directorial debut. It is a remake of the Tamil movie Muni 2: Kanchana, and the trailer promises a total mass entertainer will be releasing on November 9, 2020, on Disney+ Hotstar.