Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi starrer ‘Selfiee’ is now streaming only on Disney+ Hotstar: Watch Now

On February 24, 2023, the action-drama movie Selfiee, starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi in the key roles, was released in theatres.

Nushrratt Bharuccha and Diana Penty play characters alongside Emraan and Akshay in the commercially unsuccessful movie, which only made Rs 17.03 crore net at the domestic box office, according to the entertainment tracking website.

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Selfiee has begun streaming on Disney+ Hotstar as of Friday, April 21, about two months after its premiere. “You don’t want to miss this fight between a superstar and a super fan,” the OTT page wrote in the announcement on its social media accounts.

Emraan Hashmi portrays RTO officer Om Prakash Aggarwal, and Akshay Kumar plays Bollywood actor Vijay Kumar in the movie. When Vijay urgently wants to obtain a driver’s licence, Om invites him to visit the RTO office so that he may simply take a selfie with him. This causes the superstar and his fan to cross paths.

Selfiee is directed by Raj Mehta, who also made the family drama JugJugg Jeeyo in 2022 with Varun Dhawan, Kiara Advani, Anil Kapoor, and Neetu Kapoor.It is an official Hindi version of the Malayalam comedy-drama Driving Licence, in which Prithviraj Sukumaran and Suraj Venjaramoodu play the leading roles of Hareendran and Kuruvila Joseph, the motor vehicle inspectors, respectively.

Hindi subtitles for the original are currently available on Prime Video. The Hindi adaptation was also co-produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran under his production company, Prithviraj Productions, with Listin Stephen’s Magic Frames, Star Studios, Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, Akshay Kumar’s Cape of Good Films, and the production company that also funded the 2019 original movie, Akshay Kumar.