Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar in Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Image courtesy: YouTube)
Highlights
- The film highlights the issues of sanitation and lack of toilets in India
- Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar have rooted for Akshay's film
- The trailer got over 15 million views in just 2 days
Finally,
Akshay Kumar's much-awaited film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, hits the screens tomorrow (August 11). The Shree Narayan Singh-directed film stars Bhumi Pednekar opposite Akshay. The theme of the film is similar to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and deals with the issues of sanitation and lack of toilets in India, especially in rural areas. Akshay plays Keshav while Bhumi features as Jaya, his wife. Soon after her marriage, Jaya is introduced to the
lota gang, a group of women who defecate in the open. Jaya retaliates and leaves Keshav's home due to the absence of proper toilet at his residence. Later, Keshav takes Jaya's cause forward and convinces his family and the people of his town to build toilets.
Celebrities like
Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor and many others have rooted for Akshay's
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.
The trailer of
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha broke major records. Within just two days of its release, it became the 'highest viewed Bollywood trailer' on Facebook. On YouTube, it got over 15 million views. "Everywhere we are going and whoever we are speaking to now, is only raving about the trailer of
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. This film has all those qualities and we are very excited to present this film to the audiences," Shital Bhatia, co-producer of
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha said, reported news agency IANS.
Watch the trailer of
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha here.
PM Modi also tweeted about
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.
Box office India predicts that the film will get 'decent opening.' The report states that opening day collection of
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is likely to be between Rs 12-15 crore, which is similar to Akshay's past releases -
Airlift, Housefull 3, Rustom and
Jolly LLB 2.