Raksha Bandhan

Raksha Bandhan is primarily a vehicle for Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, and its social purpose plays second fiddle to fanning his stardom.

Raksha Bandhan is a regressive film that compresses the potentially most interesting plot point into a song montage (more on that later) and expands the melodrama.

Do the filmmakers truly believe that such low-rent family dramas, with their uneasy mix of humour and crassness, is the way out for a beleaguered Bollywood?

Raksha Bandhan is the cinematic equivalent of a man constantly talking over a woman and then wanting an award for it.

Akshay Kumar stars in a tone-deaf family drama that gets progressively regressive.

The film wants to cater to the lowest common denominator by regurgitating stale old lines and jokes, and still fails to elicit a laugh.

It is hard to believe that anybody would make a film such as this in 2022. The girls of Raksha Bandhan, like the film itself, are caught in a time warp.

Akshay Kumar's film moves you to tears with a strong message on dowry and entertains with clean humour.

This highly emotional drama doesn’t fail to touch you, but it had the potential to be a far more entertaining watch.

Irony, which might have lifted a movie that’s often as one-note as Himesh Reshammmiya’s songs, is nowhere in sight.