Raksha bandhan film

How to do one's own ' raksha' from Raksha Bandhan is an unbearable, excruciating watch. In this film, women are waiting to be married off - either by golgappa seller and a desperate “groom hunter” for his four younger sisters. No woman here is gainfully employed. Their consent or opinions don’t really matter. The conditioning is complete and all are hardwired to take “ agni ke saat phere”. The sisters exist to wait for the brother to procure a prospective match! Kedarnath’s childhood sweetheart Sapna (Bhumi Pednekar) lives next door and keeps fretting about the long wait to the mandap too. The fact that getting his four sisters married is going to be an uphill task is made amply clear, given that the only defining feature about each of the sisters are their physical attributes. The first one, Gayatri (Sadia Khateeb), is the Indian matrimonial ad prototype. A thin, fair and homely girl who smiles and blushes the moment her brother announces “ shaadi pakki hai”. She doesn’t even enquire about the boy because that’s hardly of any consequence. As for the others - one is fat, one is dusky and the youngest is a tomboy. That writers like Himanshu Sharma and Kanika Dhillon will not really play it only for cheap laughs without a trick up their sleeves. But that is exactly what is done. The brother does it, the brother’s perennial fiancé does it, and even the textbook-perfect older sister does it, reducing the three young girls simply to their looks, which do not fit the societal ex...

Raksha Bandhan Story: Responsibility for the four sisters’ marriage rests on the shoulders of Lala Kedarnath, the eldest and only brother. What follows are his relentless efforts to ensure his sisters settled down in marriage before marrying Sapna, his childhood sweetheart. Will he be able to keep his promises, or does fate have other plans for him? Raksha Bandhan Review: The film takes off quickly in the locales of Chandni Chowk, where Lala Kedarnath (Akshay Kumar) owns a pushtaini gol gappa (panipuri) shop. He is popular, especially among the pregnant women who believe that after gulping down gol gappas from his shop, they will possibly give birth to a baby boy. Even in his personal life, he is surrounded by a gang of four sisters— sensible and responsible Gayatri (Sadia Khateeb), chubby Durga (Deepika Khanna), dusky Laxmi (Smrithi Srikanth), and tomboyish Saraswati (Sahejmeen Kaur) — and, of course, his girlfriend, Sapna (Bhumi Pednekar). Lala made a promise to his mother on her deathbed that he would tie the knot only after he has fulfilled his responsibility of marrying his sisters into suitable homes. Despite his best efforts and careful screening of all available men, he is unable to marry off his sisters. At the same time, Lala’s devotion to his sisters impedes his romantic life with Sapna. After Atrangi Re!, director Aanand L Rai and writer Himanshu Sharma collaborate again. Kanika Dhillon has co-written this familial tale that is overly simple and relatable. Rai ...