Actor Akshay Kumar’s household drama Raksha Bandhan is exhibiting no indicators of enchancment on the field workplace. On the sixth day of the movie’s launch, director Aanand L Rai’s movie couldn’t even break the determine of Rs 2 crore. The adverse buzz across the movie affected its field workplace efficiency, though it was launched on a vacation.
According to Bollywood Hungama, 60 % of the exhibits of the movie had been diminished on Tuesday and it might earn solely round Rs 1.35 to 1.75 crores on the field workplace. The movie will in all probability publish a lifetime assortment of Rs 45 crore, which is unhealthy sufficient to make it one of many largest field workplace crashes within the final 10 years.
The movie made a sluggish begin, incomes Rs 8.20 crore on Day 1, Rs 6.40 crore on Friday, Rs 6.51 crore on Saturday and Rs 7.05 crore on Sunday. There was no enchancment within the collections on Monday as effectively, closing at Rs 6.3 crore on the field workplace. Raksha Bandhan is the third flop on the field workplace this 12 months for Akshay, who’s already battling with the poor efficiency of his earlier releases, Bachchan Pandey and Samrat Prithviraj.
The movie’s poor efficiency has not benefited its field workplace rival Lal Singh Chaddha. The Aamir Khan-starrer can also be struggling, and is now anticipated to shut its run with lower than Rs 60 crore.
Raksha Bandhan acquired combined evaluations from critics. The Indian Express’s Shubhra Gupta wrote in her evaluation of the movie, “I’m not sure what made me more uncomfortable – the mothballed plot details, the contradictions, the high-pitched melodrama that used to be part and parcel of the movies we used to think. We had it deep six decades ago; or the belief that low-rent family drama, with its uneasy mix of humor and raucousness, at one time immensely popular, is the way to a troubled Bollywood.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
