The destructive 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 smooth debut on Thursday, Raksha Bandhan flopped additional with a paltry collections between Rs 5.7 crore and Rs 6.1 crore on Monday, in accordance 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 operating 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 had 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 in a position to assist the movie crack the Rs 50 crore mark, which is at the moment wanting troublesome.
Raksha Bandhan is poised to turn out to be Akshay Kumar’s largest flop of the 12 months, behind even Bachchhan Paandey and Samrat Prithviraj. Aanand L Rai’s Color Yellow Productions seems to be in some type 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 submit 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 sort both. The Indian Specific’ 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?”
