Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar’s debut film Saugandh was released in theaters on 25 January 1991. At that time, hardly anyone would have thought that one day Akshay would become the Khiladi Kumar of Hindi cinema. Akshay Kumar needs no introduction in a career spanning nearly 33 years. Not only in India, people in many countries of the world love his films. But Akshay Kumar coming to Bollywood and becoming an actor was not part of the plan. As luck would have it, he kept moving and the road kept opening. There were two important phases in Akshay’s life, which proved to be turning points in his life.
Akshay Kumar was born on 9 September 1967 in Amritsar, Punjab. But he grew up in Delhi. Akshay was very interested in martial arts. He started his training from eighth standard. Akshay went to Bangkok to train in Taekwondo and achieved a black belt. When he was in Bangkok, he also worked there as a waiter for a salary of 1500 rupees. According to the report, after his return, he started training in martial arts.
Akshay Kumar’s first turning point
When Akshay returned to India after receiving specialized martial arts training from Bangkok, he started training in martial arts. Meanwhile, one of his students advised him to take up modelling. He was a student photographer. He recommended Akshay to a modeling agency. After this Akshay Kumar got success. He used to earn in two days as much as he could earn in a month. After this, Akshay changed his name from Rajiv Om Bhatia to Akshay Kumar.
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Another turn
Akshay Kumar came to Mumbai and started trying in Bollywood along with modeling. Things were not working. He got about 17 seconds in the 1987 film Aaj, in which he played a karate instructor. But did not get a big role. So how did you get the first film? His story was narrated by Akshay himself in an interview. That incident was also a big turning point in his life.
Akshay Kumar said in an interview to Curly Tales, “I had already started modeling, so I was called for a ramp walk project in Bengaluru. I was told to come at 6 o’clock. Then I woke up in the morning. Exercised. Then at about 5:15 in the morning my house phone rang and I was asked where I was. I said I had just finished exercising and was going to take a shower. He said you don’t know you have a 6 am flight. I thought it was an evening flight.”
Akshay says he apologized and said I will come. But he replied, “You are a very unprofessional person. It hurts to see people like you. I apologized and quickly took out the motorcycle and ran away. But I missed my flight at 6 o’clock. I was very sad all day.” After this, Akshay’s mother explained to him. Akshay then went to Nataraj Studio, where he met a man named Narendra. He was the makeup man of Pramod Chakraborty’s company.
Narendra asks Akshay for his photo and goes inside and shows the photo to Pramod Chakraborty. After 15 minutes, Akshay was called inside. Pramod Chakraborty liked Akshay’s picture. He signed Akshay as the hero in his next film Deedar. After this, Akshay was given a check of five thousand rupees as an advance. By the time the check was handed over to him, it was exactly 6 o’clock on the clock. Akshay said that if I had caught the flight at 6 in the morning, I would not have got the film at 6 in the evening.
