On Thursday, August 11, we noticed the release of the Aanand L Rai directorial Raksha Bandhan. Starring Ashay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar the movie was launched on the auspicious event of Raksha Bandhan. Said to be an emotional household entertainer the movie was anticipated to open to double digits despite the proven fact that it confronted competitors from the different release Laal Singh Chaddha. However, opposite to expectations Raksha Bandhan obtained combined opinions opening beneath expectations with simply Rs. 8.20 cr. coming in on its opening day. Following this, on its second day operating, the movie noticed a drop of round 21% in collections with Rs. 6.40 cr. coming in. Later on, on its third day, which by the way was its first Saturday Raksha Bandhan drew in Rs. 6.51 cr. With this, the whole three-day collections of the movie are presently pegged at Rs. 21.11 cr.

Interestingly, when in comparison with the earlier release Ek Villain Returns, the Akshay Kumar starrer appears to be lagging behind. In reality, the Mohit Suri directorial that includes Arjun Kapoor, John Abraham, Disha Patani, and Tara Sutaria noticed Rs. 23.45 cr. coming in over its opening weekend. Collecting Rs. 7.05 cr, Rs. 7.47 cr., and Rs. 9.02 cr. on its first three days operating Ek Villain Returns noticed round 6% development from day 1 to day 2 and an additional nearly 21% enhance in enterprise on its third day as in comparison with day 2. In phrases of general opening weekend enterprise as effectively, Ek Villain Returns which collected Rs. 23.45 cr. is roughly 11.08% extra than Raksha Bandhan which drew in Rs. 21.11 cr.

While the much less than anticipated field workplace collections of Raksha Bandhan are being attributed to the proven fact that the movie confronted stiff competitors from the different new release Laal Singh Chaddha, because of which the movie needed to cope with a decrease display depend, the Aanand L Rai starrer did have the benefit of a festive release with a vacation weekend. On the different hand, Ek Villain Returns launched conventionally on a non-vacation weekend managed to fare higher than the vacation release.

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