Akshay Kumar’s Raksha Bandhan fell by 30% on its second day of launch, after a poor exhibiting on opening day. The movie, directed by Aanand L Rai and launched together with the Raksha Bandhan vacation on Thursday, is claimed to have made Rs 6 crore on day two, in response to a Box Office India report. Raksha Bandhan had debuted with a disappointing Rs 8.2 crore on its first day of launch. This takes the movie’s two-day whole to round Rs 14 crore.
The BOI report mentioned that the movie carried out properly within the mass belts, however was a non-starter in South India, the place Akshay does not have a lot of a presence. This is now the third field workplace dud in a row this 12 months for the once-unbeatable star, after Bachchhan Paandey and Samrat Prithviraj. Before that, the actor had appeared within the mid-pandemic hit Sooryavanshi and the underperformer BellBottom. He’d additionally appeared in an prolonged cameo in Aanand L Rai’s final movie, Atrangi Re, which debuted straight on the Disney+ Hotstar streaming platform.
Raksha Bandhan’s opening day haul wasn’t ok for a spot on the listing of the highest 5 largest openings of the 12 months, which embody Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (Rs 14.1 crore), Bachchhan Paandey (Rs 13.2 crore), fellow new launch Laal Singh Chaddha (Rs 12 crore), Samrat Prithviraj (Rs 10.7 crore) and Gangubai Kathiawadi (Rs 10.5 crore). Raksha Bandhan is definitely performing like Akshay’s notorious 2009 bomb Kambakkht Ishq, which made a bit of over Rs 7 crore on opening day and concluded its run with round Rs 45 crore.
The opinions have been unfavourable as properly, with criticism being directed at Rai’s gender-politics and Himanshu Sharma and Kanika Dhillon’s script. The Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta wrote in her 1.5 star evaluation, “Do the filmmakers truly believe that such low-rent family dramas, with their uneasy mix of humor and crassness, is the way out for a beleaguered Bollywood?”
The state of affairs is dire for Bollywood, with each Raksha Bandhan and Laal Singh Chaddha underperforming on the field workplace in what has been a very troubling 12 months. For Akshay, it is worse, since he is now had three back-t0-back duds doubtlessly. Earlier this 12 months, he spoke to the Indian Express about experiencing profession setbacks, and mentioned, “Dealing with failure is similar. I’ve not simply had 13-14 flops, there was once more a time in center the place my 8-9 movies flopped. I all the time say you possibly can really feel unhealthy for a flop from Friday to Sunday, on Monday you must decide your self up and go do one other movie, and be very pleased on the set. You cannot carry round your unhappy face all over the place. You must go and revel in your self, your work. Good movies are solely made since you benefit from the movie.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
