Akshay Kumar’s new film under fire for replacing India with Bharat in title.
Akshay Kumar shared new posters for his upcoming film Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue, for which he is receiving a lot of flak.
The film starring Akshay Kumar was previously titled Mission Raniganj: The Great Indian Rescue.
The film’s title change comes amid the ongoing debate over renaming India to Bharat.
It all started with President Droupadi Murmu’s dinner invitation to G20 delegates that said “President of Bharat” rather than “India.”
Since then, the Internet has been divided, and Akshay Kumar’s film title change has only added fuel to the fire.
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Users on X (formerly known as Twitter) posted screenshots of previous posters posted by Akshay Kumar (now deleted), which had the word India instead of Bharat.
A section of the Internet questioned the existence of Akshay Kumar’s previous tweet about the film, which used the term India rather than Bharat.
“Ye tweet kahan gaya (Where did this tweet go)?” enquired one user.
Akshay Kumar’s new film under fire for replacing India with Bharat in title, check the Tweets:
In 1989, one man achieved the impossible!
Watch the story of Bharat’s true hero with #MissionRaniganj in cinemas on 6th October.
Teaser out tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/J0vFVq2v96— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) September 6, 2023
ये ट्वीट कहा गया? 🤔#IndiaVsBharat pic.twitter.com/xhrBdhybty
— iMayankofficial 🇮🇳 (@imayankindian) September 6, 2023
Another X user asked the actor, “Aapki agli movie ka name BHARAT to nahin Akki bhai (Is the name of your next film Bharat)?”
In 1989, one man achieved the impossible!
Watch the story of Bharat’s true hero with #MissionRaniganj in cinemas on 6th October.
Teaser out tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/J0vFVq2v96— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) September 6, 2023
Another user resorted to humor and shared a still from Mr Kumar’s Bhagam Bhag, which is also a popular meme template. “Bharat,” the user simply wrote adding the meme.
Bharat pic.twitter.com/sbNYk3KjkT
— Lala (@FabulasGuy) September 6, 2023
Isse pehle tweet mai India likh diya tha canadian isliye delete kardiya tha ab bharat likha hai movie fir bhi disaster hi hoga 😭👍🏽
— ١_١_١▫️ (@iamSrkFollower) September 6, 2023
Akshay Kumar was trolled for more than just changing the words in the poster.
A section of the Internet criticized the editing in one of the film’s posters.
A few faces have been pasted multiple times on one of the posters.
A user took the time to point out the error in the poster.
Wah kiya poster hai 🥹#MissionRaniganj #AkshayKumar #Bollywood pic.twitter.com/mBqXgX3t3u
— Er Shahanshah (@ErSahansa) September 7, 2023
Mission Raniganj tells the story of late mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill, who led a heroic coal mine rescue mission in November 1989, rescuing miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Raniganj.
Parineeti Chopra, Kumud Mishra, Pavan Malhotra, Ravi Kishan, Varun Badola, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Rajesh Sharma, Virendra Saxena, Shishir Sharma, Ananth Mahadevan, Jameel Khan, Sudhir Pandey, Bachan Pachera, Mukesh Bhatt, and Omkar Das Manikpur also star in Mission Raniganj.
Tinu Suresh Desai is the film’s director. The film will be released on October 6.
Akshay Kumar was most recently seen in OMG 2 alongside Pankaj Tripathi and Yami Gautam.
