It was a flat extended weekend for Akshay Kumar’s latest release film “Raksha Bandhan”, the film couldn’t show growth on Monday (Independence Day) also. Aamir starrer LSC, which faced a clash with Akki’s film, met the same fate.
Both the biggies were opened with generally positive reviews from critics but have been rejected by the audience at the box office domestically. Aamir’s film managed to churn out good collections overseas, on the other Akki’s film didn’t find any takers there as well.
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Box Office Collection Day 6
Raksha Bandhan was rejected by the multiplex audience on day 1 and didn’t see any upward trend over the weekend in the mass belts as well. It is turning out to be a big disaster for Akshay Kumar. As per the media reports, it collected Rs 6 Cr on Monday which is a drop of around 20%, it was expected to show a jump given the fact that there was a national holiday.
Now the Tuesday occupancy reports suggest that it sees an over 80% drop in occupancy, the reports also added that most of the shows got cancelled owing to zilch occupancy. Going by this it hardly mints more than Rs 1.5 Cr on Tue (Day6), making the total collections in the vicinity of Rs 36 crores.
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Box Office Overseas
Most of the earnings came from the U.S (Rs 1.4 Cr), followed by U.K and Canada with Rs 70Lakhs+ and 49.82 Lakhs respectively, below are territory-wise overseas collections of Raksha Bandhan:
U.S.A (Rs 1.4 Cr)
U.K (Rs 70 L)
Canada (Rs 49.82 L)
Australia (Rs 20 Lacs)
New Zealand (Rs 32 Lacs)
