Akshay Kumar’s third outing of the year “Raksha Bandhan” has created quite a buzz with its trailer ahead of the release, it is a holiday release film arriving in cinemas on Raksha Bandhan Aug 11th.
The box office hasn’t been good for Akki’s films this year, the actor’s last two outings Bachchan Paandey and Samrat Prithviraj were rejected by the audience in its first weekend itself. Now all the eyes will be on his upcoming film Raksha Bandha to end the dry spell of the actor at the BO, here we are discussing screen counts, advance bookings, budget, box office prediction, and more.
Akki’s film has created a good buzz surrounding the film before its release first with its trailer and then with promotions and marketing, the film found itself in controversy as well when it faced backlash over the old tweets of its screenplay writer Kanika Dhillon, on social media platforms.
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Advance Bookings
As per Bollywood Hungama, Akki’s film has sold around 17000 tickets till Wednesday morning, for the opening day at the three national chains PVR, Inox, and Cinepolis. Akki’s films are way behind in the number of selling tickets in the multiplex than Aamir Khan’s film Laal Singh Chaddha, however, it did beat the latter in the mass pockets in advance.
Going by this, it will sell around 40,000 tickets before the release, which is similar to Samrat Prithviraj’s ( 41,000) but lower than Shamshera’s ( 48,000) final advances. As per Sacnilk.com, Raksha Bandhan has sold overall 34468 tickets worth Rs 84.75 L, till Wed morning.
Screen Counts and Budget
Raksha Bandha is said to be made on a budget of around Rs 75 crores. As per a report of Pinkvilla, it will be released on around 2500 screens in India. The good thing is, that it has a short runtime of 108 minutes which means the film will be witnessing more shows per day than its competitor Laal Singh Chaddha whose total duration is around 3hrs.
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Box Office Collection
The film’s subject caters to the family audience (middle-class and lower middle-class families) and also Akshay Kumar is not a star of advances like Aamir, the former’s film will totally depend on spot bookings. Going by the advances, it looks like his film will collect Rs 8-9 Cr range. However, if the walk-in audience comes in huge numbers and there is a Raksha Bandhan holiday as well there is a chance that it witnesses a double-digit opening.
