But Lakshmi fights to save her life. Lakshmi is determined to get out of this brutal world and go home to her mother and father. Lakshmi fights her way back to freedom and to return to her parents. Ultimately the story is a powerful call to action and an inspiring call to life for women around the world.
The film features the music of the late Javed Akhtar and Sabira Qazi and lyrics by Javed Akhtar, Ingrid Michaelson and Mark Andres.
Casts
Shruti Thakker as Lakshmi
Uday Tikekar as Veerendra
Sajid Hasan as Swami Ma
Rajesh Khera as Collector Pradeep Sharma
Amanpreet Sandhu as Mother
Nirmala Nagesh as Gauri
Kanika Dhillon as Reporter Shivani
Preeti Jhangiani as Vani
Bhawana Tilak as Laxmi
Mahima Khandkekar as Lakshmi’s mother
Gurmeet Chhabra as Lakshmi’s father
Ashu Maroo as Ujala
Anoop Shrivastav as Inspector
Jay Soni as Pradeep Sharma’s Son
Nishant Morawala as Principal
Rupal Parihar as Baa
Sara Parkar as Jamuniya
Sumit Babbar as Karan
Zahid Ahmed as Veerendra’s Friend
Release
The film was originally scheduled for release in July 2017, but was released in cinemas on 19 January 2018. It was theatrically released in the UK by Chennai Express' producer Goldmines Motion Pictures International.
Reception
Critical response
Rohit Vats of The Times of India awarded the film two and half stars out of five, writing, "Lakshmi is an intensely emotional film that would work better in a larger theatre. The heroines' hard knocks during their childhood are impossible to forget. But because the film indulges in excessive sentimentality at the start, and the interval, its 'intensity' quickly vanishes and the film becomes a dreary melodrama."
Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film one and a half stars out of five and wrote, "There is no doubt that Lakshmi is not the first Indian feature to be inspired by the Akshay Kumar starrer Rakht and to borrow some of its
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