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Aanand L Rai’s ‘Raksha Bandhan’, with Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar, is an anti-dowry drama that’s more fascinating in theory than on the big screen

Writer: goldenstateservicesj
goldenstateservicesj
Aug 11, 2022
1 min read

Spoilers ahead…


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You know that PSA where a man named Nandu is smoking outside a hospital and Akshay Kumar comes by on a cycle? Nandu’s wife has ““, a menstrual complication. And Akshay says that if he spent the cigarette money on sanitary pads, it’s two benefits for the price of one: Nandu will save his lungs and his wife will not have to come to the hospital anymore. Aanand L Rai’s is like a feature-length version of that PSA – and I don’t mean this as an insult. Message movies are their own little subgenre, and if this film were a placard, it would have the words, “.” It’s two benefits for the price of one:

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