Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar’s Raksha Bandhan, directed by filmmaker Aanand L Rai, launched on August 11. Even after having a festive begin, the movie doesn’t appear to be attracting cinegoers to cinema halls. After poor efficiency on the field workplace on first two days, on Saturday too the movie didn’t present a lot enchancment, nonetheless, in keeping with reviews it confirmed a nominal development of 8% because it collected Rs 6.75 crores to 7.25 crores. The whole earnings of the movie within the final three days has been Rs 21.60 crores, as per a Bollywood Hungama report.
The field workplace earnings of the movie on the primary two days was Rs 14.60 crores.
Raksha Bandhan, similar to its competitors — Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha — has not discovered favour with film lovers. Experts say with the kind of earnings it’s getting, it’ll make round Rs 50 crores as its life time enterprise whereas it runs in theatres across the nation.
Raksha Bandhan can be doing higher within the rural pockets and tier three cities as a substitute of metros, and doing higher enterprise in single display screen theatres than multiplexes, with hardly any buzz in south India.
Raksha Bandhan marks a 3rd consecutive flop for Akshay Kumar, after his Bachchhan Paanday and Samrat Prithviraj tanked on the field workplace. However, his first collaboration with Aanand L Rai, an prolonged cameo in Atrangi Re additionally starring Sara Ali Khan and Dhanush, was acquired warmly.
The movie which addresses the problem of dowry in India, acquired combined critiques from film critics. Indian Express’s Shubhra Gupta, in her evaluate of the movie, wrote, “I’m not sure what made me more uncomfortable — the mothballed plot detailing, the contrivances, the high-pitched melodrama which used to be part and parcel of movies we thought we had deep-sixed decades back; or the conviction that low-rent family dramas, with their uneasy mix of humour and crassness, hugely popular at one time, is the way out for a beleaguered Bollywood.”