Raksha Bandhan field workplace day 5: As Akshay Kumar’s movie struggles to hit Rs 50 crore lifetime, Aanand L Rai’s manufacturing home celebrates efficiency

The detrimental buzz round Aamir Khan-starrer Laal Singh Chaddha‘s box office performance is overshadowing the absolute debacle that is Akshay Kumar’s Raksha Bandhan. The normally reliable Aamir now has two main back-to-back flops throughout 4 years, however the prolific Akshay has three field workplace bombs in 2022 alone.

After a mushy debut on Thursday, Raksha Bandhan flopped additional with a paltry collections between Rs 5.7 crore and Rs 6.1 crore on Monday, in keeping with a Bollywood Hungama report. The movie, directed by Aanand L Rai, made Rs 8.20 cr on day one, Rs 6.40 cr on Friday, Rs 6.51 cr on Saturday, and Rs 7.05 crore on Sunday. Raksha Bandhan’s working complete now stands at Rs 34 crore. It joins Laal Singh Chaddha on the uncommon listing of movies to have fallen on a nationwide vacation as large as Independence Day.

To make issues worse, the discharge methods of each movies have been designed not solely to capitalise on the prolonged weekend, but additionally the Raksha Bandhan vacation. With multiplex audiences having given up on the movie already, it stays to be seen if viewers within the mass belts of North India are capable of assist the movie crack the Rs 50 crore mark, which is at the moment wanting tough.

Raksha Bandhan is poised to grow to be Akshay Kumar’s greatest flop of the yr, behind even Bachchhan Paandey and Samrat Prithviraj. Aanand L Rai’s Colour Yellow Productions seems to be in some sort of denial, nevertheless. The manufacturing home has been sharing the field workplace figures of the movie on Instagram, utilizing adjective like ‘overwhelming’ and ‘stellar’. One social media publish learn, “Anmol #DhaagonSeBaandhaa hua bhai-beheno ka yeh rishta, Box Office pe macha raha hai shor (This film about sibling love is making noise at the box office).”

The critiques haven’t been type both. The Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta gave the movie 1.5 stars, and wrote, “Do the filmmakers truly believe that such low-rent family dramas, with their uneasy mix of humour and crassness, is the way out for a beleaguered Bollywood?”