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Amid glorified advance booking reports for Laal Singh Chaddha, Raksha Bandhan, trade expert issues clarification

Raksha Bandhan and Laal Singh Chaddha release on August 11
Two of the biggest releases of 2022 – Akshay Kumar‘s relationship drama Raksha Bandhan and Aamir Khan‘s official Hindi remake of Tom Hanks starrer Forrest Gump in Laal Singh Chaddha – are slated to clash headlong when both release on August 11. The films are expected to turn the game around for Bollywood, which has, in all sincerity failed to shine after Kartik Aaryan‘s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2. Even Ranbir Kapoor’s Shamshera despite opening to a lot of promise failed to make much of a mark at the box office.
Ahead of the release of both films, a lot of reports are going around on social media regarding the advance bookings of the film, with some tweeting that Laal Singh Chaddha has a fair chance of becoming the highest opener for a Hindi film in 2022, with advance bookings being ‘quite good’. Similar reports are there for Akshay Kumar’s Raksha Bandhan as well.

Now, noted film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh has called out those reports and asked them to stop painting a rosy picture. Adarsh tweeted that in reality the advance bookings for both films are below expectations. He wrote, “STOP painting a rosy picture… Let’s get the facts right… The *advance bookings* of #LaalSinghChaddha and #RakshaBandhan are way BELOW EXPECTATIONS… Both dependent on [i] spot bookings / walk-in audience and [ii] word of mouth to put up strong totals on Day 1 [Thu].”

Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar are two of the biggest superstars in Indian cinema and as such will warrant the audience to theatres, but, as it turns out, Raksha Bandhan’s slightly shorter run time could actually turn the tide in its favour.

Aamir Khan REVEALS why his character Laal Singh Chaddha in the movie is Sikh
Aamir Khan REVEALS why his character Laal Singh Chaddha in the movie is Sikh

Film producer and business analyst Girish Johar, earlier today took to Twitter to state that Raksha Bandhan‘s run time could actually be a masterstroke against Laal Singh Chaddha. He shared, Run time of #RakshaBandhan of 110mins is a critical MASTERSTROKE by its makers. More shows at mpxs will change BO denominator with more screen time play! #LaalSinghChaddha run time is 165mins ! 1screen will have 4shows of #LSC vis a vis 6shows of #RB.”

Laal Singh Chaddha also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Naga Chaitanya, while Raksha Bandhan has Bhumi Pednekar opposite Akshay Kumar.

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