Akshay Kumar is the noble-souled hero charged with marrying off his four sisters, while they are left mostly as figures of funIndian film-maker Aanand L Rai gives his very mediocre melodrama a campaigning message about the culture of dowry-paying, though you’ll have to sit through a lot of un-feminist movie to reach it.
In truth, Raksha Bandhan is primarily a vehicle for Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, and its social purpose plays second fiddle to fanning his stardom.Kumar plays Lala, a chaat seller in Old Delhi.
Like Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Lala is in the predicament of finding husbands for his four sisters.
He promised their mother on her deathbed not to tie the knot himself until marrying them off.
The financial burden of saving for four dowries is a strain, and although his childhood sweetheart Sapna (Bhumi Pednekar) is waiting devotedly for him, her father
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