Raksha Bandhan box office collection Day 3: Akshay Kumar’s film has a low opening weekend
Akshay Kumar plays a doting brother to four sisters in Raksha Bandhan, a film that addresses the ill effects of the dowry system in Indian society and racism.
While the actor’s performances might have received praises from all around, the audience isn’t happy with the story. Raksha Bandhan opened up at Rs 8.20 crore which is at the lowest end of trade expectations. On Day 3, August 13, the film saw no growth as it collected a total of Rs 20.6 crore, as per trade reports.
RAKSHA BANDHAN BOX OFFICE COLLECTION
Raksha Bandhan saw an advance booking of 35,000 tickets sold for Day 1 at the box office with a total collection of approximately Rs 69 lakh. The film is made at an approximate budget of over Rs 70 crore. Raksha Bandhan took a lower than expected start at the box office from the morning itself. Raksha Bandhan clashed with Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha. Raksha Bandhan could manage around Rs 5.75-6 crore on Day 3, taking the three-day total to around Rs 20.6 crore.
According to a report on Boxofficeindia.com, Raksha Bandhan remains better in Hindi speaking belts of UP, CI and Rajasthan but dull in Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The collections however fell in Gujarat on Friday and Saturday.
Akshay Kumar has had three flops in Bell Bottom (Aug 19, 2021), Bachchhan Paandey (March 18, 2022) and Samrat Prithviraj (June 3, 2022) over the past year. His only hit during this period has been Sooryavanshi (Nov 5, 2021), which was made on a production budget of about Rs 160 crore and earned a net lifetime collection of Rs 196 crore in India and Rs 295 crore gross worldwide collections.
RAKSHA BANDHAN REVIEW
IndiaToday.in gave Raksha Bandhan 2 out of 5 stars. Our review read, “Raksha Bandhan’s biggest issue is its writing. For a film that sets out to pass off a social message, the writing is not only sexist but extremely offensive, especially to the women in the film. When Akshay Kumar’s Lala jokingly calls one of his sisters with weight issues a ‘double-decker,’ we are expected to laugh! At another point, he calls one of his other sisters with a duskier complexion – ‘amavas ki raat’. Unfortunately, these lines and punches are so regressive that even the writers of The Kapil Sharma Show would reject them!”
ABOUT RAKSHA BANDHAN
Directed by Aanand L Rai, Raksha Bandhan stars Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar. It also features Sadia Khateeb, Sahejmeen Kaur, Smrithi Srikanth and Deepika Khanna. The movie clashes with Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha in theatres today, August 11. The film is produced by Zee Studios, Colour Yellow Productions and Cape of Good Films and jointly written by Himanshu Sharma and Kanika Dhillon.
The storyline follows Lala Kedarnath, the eldest and only brother of four sisters, who runs a chaat shop that was started by his father. Lala promises his frail mother on her deathbed that he will get married only after he fulfills the responsibility of marrying his sisters into suitable homes first. What follows is Lala’s relentless efforts of getting his sisters married while upholding his family values.