Thinks about Akshay Kumar
- Akshay Kumar real name is Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia (born 9 September 1967).
- He was the first Bollywood actor whose films’ domestic net lifetime collections crossed ₹20 billion (US$290 million) by 2013, and ₹30 billion (US$430 million) by 2016. Having done so, he has established himself as one of the prominent actors of Hindi cinema.
- Worked as as a stunt actor; he has often performed many dangerous stunts in his films, which has earned him the sobriquet “Indian Jackie Chan”.
- Founded the Hari Om Entertainment production company and Grazing Goat Pictures production company in 2012. In 2014.
- As of 2019, according to Forbes, Akshay was the fourth highest paid actor in the world and the highest paid in India.
- His father was an army officer From a young age, Kumar was very interested in sports. His father too enjoyed wrestling.
- He lived and grew up in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk and later he moved to Mumbai when his father left Army to become an accountant with UNICEF.
- He enrolled in Mumbai’s Guru Nanak Khalsa College for higher education, but dropped out as he was not much interested in studies.
- He requested his father that he wanted to learn martial arts further, and his father somehow saved money to send him to Thailand. Kumar went to Bangkok to learn martial arts and lived in Thailand for five years learning Thai Boxing.
- He learned Muay Thai and worked as a chef and waiter.
- Went to work in Kolkata in a travel agency, in Dhaka in a hotel and Delhi where he sold Kundan jewellery. Upon his return to Mumbai, he commenced the teaching of martial arts.
- His father of one of his students, himself a model co-ordinator, recommended Kumar into modelling which ultimately led to a modelling assignment for a furniture showroom.
- He effectively made more money within the first two days of shooting than in his entire month’s salary, and therefore chose a modelling career path.
- He worked as an assistant for photographer Jayesh Sheth for 18 months without payment to shoot his first portfolio.
- He also worked as a background dancer in various films.
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One morning, he missed his flight for an ad-shoot in Bangalore. Disappointed with himself, he visited a film studio along with his portfolio. That evening, Kumar was signed for a lead role by producer Pramod Chakravarthy for the movie Deedar
- His first appearance as the lead actor opposite Raakhee and Shantipriya in Saugandh (1991).
- He stays in shape with a combination of kickboxing, basketball, swimming and Parkour as well as working out. While in standard eighth he had started practising Karate.
- Open a martial arts school and the state government of Maharashtra allotted land for the school in Bhayandar.
- Akshay Kumar is a religious, practising Shaiva Hindu who has regularly visited shrines and temples across the country, including the famed Vaishno Devi Mandir.
- 2013, Kumar has been the Hindi film industry’s highest advance taxpayer for six consecutive years. He paid ₹190 million (US$2.7 million) as advance tax payment in that year.
- 1997, Kumar endorsed for Pepsi.He previously endorsed for Thums Up for several years.
- He had also endorsed for Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India.
- On 9 April 2017, Kumar and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh promoted a mobile phone app, Bharat Ke Veer, which allows users to donate money to families of people who sacrificed their lives for India. Again on 20 January 2018, he participated in the launch of an Anthem for the initiative.
- In an event in Delhi he appealed for people to donate to the Bharat Ke Veer cause, and ₹12.93 crores was collected.
- Kumar has been recipient of two Filmfare Awards from 13 nominations: Best Villain for Ajnabee (2002) and Best Comedian for Garam Masala (2006), and a National Film Award for Best Actor for the films Rustom and Airlift (both 2016). In 2008, the University of Windsor conferred an honorary Doctorate of Law on Kumar in recognition of his contribution to Indian cinema.
- I have a strong affiliation with Canada and also have dual citizenship. It’s a place that I really love—the open terrain, the scenery, the wide roads and the clean streets.”, he said in an interview in 2010. He is probably thinking that everyone will believe his lie about holding a “dual citizenship” of India and Canada, since a very small fraction of well-travelled people are aware about citizenship and visa rules around the world.
