Before Raghava Lawrence became a successful director, he began his career as a dancer. The filmmaker, who ventured into Hindi cinema with Akshay Kumar and Laxmii, the star of Kiara Advani, was once a background dancer behind Prabhudeva.
In the song Chikku Bukku Rayile from the 1993 Tamil film Gentleman, Raghava was one of the background dancers. In July this year, she shared a souvenir picture with Prabhudeva from her dancing days and wrote, “Sweet memories with the prabudeva teacher!”
Raghava Lawrence (left) and Prabhudeva in Chikku Bukku Rayile’s song from Gentleman.
Raghava made her foray into Bollywood with Laxmii, a remake of her Tamil horror comedy Muni 2: Kanchana. The film stars Akshay as a man possessed by the spirit of a transgender person who seeks revenge.
In a tweet hours before Laxmii’s launch, Raghava had written: “Hello friends and fans, Laxmi, my debut Hindi directing film, will be released on #Disneyplushotstar at 7.05pm today. Through the Tamil film Kanchana, I wanted to convey the pain and struggles of transgender people and the film received a lot of appreciation from the transgender community and the public. “
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Raghava also praised Akshay for agreeing to such a “tough” role. “Similarly, when Akshay sir is performing in his Hindi remake, I hope the message will reach a wider audience. Normally actors don’t take such tough roles, but I think Mr. Akshay, being such a good human being, cares a lot about society and has given many movies with good messages before. My special thanks to Akshay sir for accepting and playing this role and I would like to extend my thanks to Sister Shabina for the entire process of this film, Tusshar sir, Kiara Advani for acting wonderfully, my DOP Vetri, my co-directors and all the technicians who they worked for this movie, ”he wrote.
Laxmii got a direct-to-digital release on November 9 on Disney + Hotstar. The film will open in theaters in select international markets: United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Mauritius, Thailand and South Africa.
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