Interesting Facts About Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar is a very known face and a prominent part of Bollywood, he's an actor, a producer, and a martial artist also. In a career spanning more than twenty-five years.

 Akshay Kumar has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films and has won several awards including the national film awards for best actor for his performance in Rustom and two Filmfare awards also.

Akshay Kumar Struggle

Akshay Kumar was born in Amritsar, India to Hari Om Bhatia and Aruna Bhatia. And now he also owns Canadian Citizenship. From a young age, Kumar was recognized as a performer, particularly as a dancer. Well, he has completed his education in Mumbai, but dropped college after a year and went to Bangkok to learn martial arts. 

HIS PASSION FOR MARTIAL ARTS 

When he was a teenager, he was once asked by his father what he aspired to be. And he clearly expressed his desire to become an actor. 

After having obtained a black belt in Taekwondo while in India, he studied martial arts in Bangkok,  Thailand,  where he learned Muay Thai and worked as a chef and waiter as well.

Upon his return to Mumbai, he practiced teaching martial arts. And was once recommended by one of his students who was an aspiring photographer to try his hands at modeling, which ultimately led to a modeling assignment. 

Akshay Kumar Turning Stage

Kumar effectively made more money, within the first two days of shooting, in comparison to his one-month salary, and therefore chose modeling as his main profession.

He worked as an assistant for photographer Jayesh Sheth for the first 18 months without payment to shoot his first portfolio. And he has also worked as a  background dancer in various films.

He got his first lead project when he missed a flight for an ad shoot in Bangalore.  And out of disappointment bumped into a film studio with his portfolio and got signed for a lead role by producer Pramod Chakravarty for the movie DEEDAR.

Akshay Kumar [ The Khiladi of Bollywood ]

Akshay Kumar has an interest in martial arts, Akshay Kumar is also known to perform many dangerous stunts in his films, which has earned him the sobriquet title "Indian Jackie Chan".

When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films. And was also known for his appearance in films of the Khiladi Series as well as other action films such as "Mohra" and "Mai Khiladi Tu Anari".

In the early days of his career, he was solely working as a stunt actor. In 2008, he also hosted an Indian Television show Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi. And in 2014, Kumar launched a TV reality show Dare 2 Dance.

AKSHAY KUMAR IN BOLLYWOOD 

He made his Bollywood debut in the movie Aaj (1987), where he played a martial arts instructor.

And later on, he started signing films with Big Production Houses also and even in different genres, like comedy and romance.

Akshay Kumar played a supporting role in Yash Chopra-directed romance, Dil To Pagal hai, co-starring Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, and Karishma Kapoor. For which he received his first nomination for his Filmfare best supportive actor award and was also praised by the audience. 

In the same year, he starred opposite Juhi Chawla. In David Dhawan-Directed comedy Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi, the fifth installment of the Khiladi series.

In 2000, Akshay Kumar starred in the Priyadarshan-directed comedy Hera-Pheri. Alongside Paresh Rawal and Sunil Shetty which was a remake of the Malayali film Ramji Speaking.

Which became a  commercial success and proved to be the turning point in Kumar's career.

And later Kumar signed many Bollywood films like Chandni Chowk to China, Housefull series, Rowdy Rathore, and many more that received a mix of responses from the critics.

HIS BLOCKBUSTERS

Some of his movies were extreme blockbusters like Rowdy Rathore, which earned more than 1.3 billion rupees in India and was a huge success at the box office.

Akshay was also praised for his performance in Rustom which gained him numerous award nominations. And it also grossed more than 200 crores at The Box Office.

His only release in 2017 was Toilet: Ek Prem Katha depicted a serious issue of toilets in certain regions of the country. That also proved to be a blockbuster and Akshay's performance was praised by critics.

He also gave many superhits like Airlift (2016), 2. O (2018), 

Mission Mangal (2019), Good Newzz (2019), and Sooryavanshi (2021).

As of August 2017, he was the Tenth Highest paid actor in the world according to "Forbes".

Despite being a superhero, Akshay Kumar has also borne flop movies like Mela. But the fun fact is that the failure of this movie lead him to tie knots with actor-author Twinkle Khanna, which turned into a successful marriage. The couple tied knows on January 17, 2001.

In 2009, Kumar featured Deepika Padukone in the Warner Bros, Rohan Bippy Production, and Chandni Chowk to China directed by Nikhil Dhamani, which was a critical and commercial failure at the Box Office.

His first release if 2012 was Housefull 2, a sequel to his earlier comedy film Housefull. The movie received a mix of reviews, from critics but was very successful at the Box Office.

Eventually, a time came in his life when he started a production company,  The Hari Om Entertainment Production Company.  In 2012, he founded another production company called Grazing Goat Pictures.

On this, he says that he wants to try everything in life. 

And that is proved as he has worked with all generations of female actors starting from legendary actors like Rekha Ji, favorites of all time Madhuri Dixit and Shilpa Shetty to new bees like Bhumi Pednekar and Kriti Sanon.

WHAT MAKES HIM SO SUCCESSFUL?

Akshay Kumar has somehow caught the pulse of paying public at the box office.

Despite hum doing 4-5 films a year, the audience is not getting tired of him because of the variety he serves. People enjoy his work and think he is not repetitive which is a very big factor.

Akshay Kumar has answered many questions that came to everyone's mind and here's a compilation. When asked when you think that you want to be a part of Bollywood. He simply and honestly replied that he came just to earn money, and he never mean to be an actor, somebody just pushed him into it. And over time he had realized that no matter what the journey was like, how he entered it, 

 The destination is a beautiful place, it was like a Lala land and suddenly everything went right. But when asked that people think that life of an actor is easy, they just need to come in front of the camera and just perform their part He critically answered ask them who came to watch our shoot.

They will tell, how long it takes to shot just one scene. And we believe, that was a fair answer. As we all know that an actor's life is not just performing his part in front of the camera, but there are many other factors involved.  So it's not an easy job, it's just the actor's skills, how simple it seems to the spectators.

Akshay Kumar also believes that everything that came our way, has a reason. When once asked about does he want to change anything from his past, he clearly said No!!!, even when asked about the bad days, the bad period of his life, 

 He again replied with disagreement and said that he'will be a fool for thinking to change something that's happened to him, he added he'll be ungrateful of God if he would say there's any bad moment. He also added that he's a believer in God, and said "I'll be ungrateful if I would say that he was not nice to me."

He's a believer in God but he didn't worship or visit temples. He had once told that he used to do Puja, worship God, and visit temples but his movie "O My God" changes his perception, that movie made him believe that God is present everywhere,  in everything, and all the time.

Akshay call himself A Game for all the roles that came his way. He also said that "I'm ready to take any kind of challenge, any kind of things because it keeps my mind engaged,  it keeps my mind young and it keeps me on my toes. "

He also added that he has realized this in the very early days of his career when he was doing only action films.  "I felt that I was not meant for just that, I need to do something, I need to test my waters."

Try something new, try some variety, and some spice to life. And that's the reason why, he's able to safeguard his image, and style in the spectator's eyes to date.