Bollywood movies have been bombing faster than fire crackers in recent times irrespective of the cast & crew. Obviously there has been challenges like the boycott wave but the fact remains that the content that they have been churning out has been rather mediocre. However, many of the film makers seem to prefer being aloof of the truth as they found it easy to blame on other factors for the failure of their movies. Along with "Laal Singh Chaddha", Aanand L Rai's "Raksha Bandhan" had also hit the screens on August 11th hoping to cash in on the extended weekend. Well unsurprisingly it failed to break even as it barely had anything worthwhile.
The script has been penned by Himanshu Sharma, who has been a regular in most of Aanand's previous ventures like "Tanu weds Manu", "Raanjhanaa" etc., along with Kanika Dhillon, who has been credited with "Manmarziyaan", "Kedarnath" etc. Hmm...that's quite a collaboration but surprisingly what the duo has come up was just pedestrian. It is basically about a doting brother who looks after his four sisters with the intention of getting them married off to respectful households even though that meant holding off his marriage with his childhood sweetheart. Sounds like Siddique's "Hitler" isn't it, except that this was a boring regressive family drama where the brother worries about the physical attributes of his siblings with the humour being crass as well.
By the time the dust settles, the audience is given a relevant social message though we are aghast at how did Aanand & the writers think that we would warm up to this story. If at all there is anything positive, then it is the run time as it lasts for only 108 minutes. Akshay has been slammed for working on numerous projects due to which it seems like he is interested solely on quantity rather than quality. Well I beg to differ on that, as he certainly performed well within the scope of the role but his choice of scripts in recent times has been pathetic. As for the rest of the cast, Sadia Khateeb (as Gayathri) was fine while the others were just about ok.
Verdict: Well nothing much to say except that it is a movie that ought to have released in the 1990s. It offers hardly anything & hence its fate at the box office was not a surprise at all. In short, don't bother!!!
Rating: 1/5
Regards...Ben
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