Raksha Bandhan box office collection Day 2: Akshay Kumar's film headed towards a flop, 1000 shows cancelled

Akshay Kumar's Raksha Bandhan is not doing well at the box office collection, and many of its shows are being cancelled. The film released on August 11.

In Raksha Bandhan, Akshay Kumar is a dutiful brother to four sisters. 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 2, August 12, the film fell to around Rs 6 crore. Akshay Kumar’s Raksha Bandhan fell by 30% on its second day of release.

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. A Boxofficeindia.com report stated that Raksha Bandhan got a big boost on day one due to Raksha Bandhan but is looking at a drop in the 30% region and should collect somewhere in the Rs 5.50-6 crore nett range on Day two. Raksha Bandhan clashed with Aamir Khan's Laal Singh Chaddha. According to a Bollywood Hungama report, theatre owners cancelled 1000 shows of the film on day two, after an average occupancy that struggled to hit double digits. Similarly, Laal Singh Chaddha also witnessed a cancellation of shows.

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.

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!"

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.