People Are Happy When My Films Don't Work: Akshay Kumar

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar is unable to give a hit post-lockdown. 'Suryavanshi' was his last hit. Though 'Oh My God 2' was a success, Akshay's role was nothing more than an extended cameo. All his movies like 'Bell Bottom', 'Bachchan Pandey', 'Samrat Prithviraj', 'Raksha Bandhan', 'Cutputli', 'Ram Sethu', 'Selfie', 'Mission Raniganj' and 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan' failed badly at the box office.

Even his latest outing 'Sarfira' which is a remake of 'Aakasame Nee Haddu Ra' turned out be a commercial failure. Many people say that the saturation of work from Akshay Kumar and treating a films like regular jobs that you do one after the other without submitting to the script is the main reason behind it. But Akshay Kumar has a separate take on it.

He says, “I don't want to get into the details of who started this (wrong perception), because it starts from somewhere. It starts from somebody who doesn't like you. That's how it starts, they pick one or two things… Now remember what they used to say earlier? They used to say, 'Akshay's films don't take long; he comes on time and leaves on time'. I used to do 17 films at a time, and they used to be released within eight months; that's how efficient I was considered… But now, when films don't work, they say that I don't devote enough time.”

He added, “People love seeing when my films don't work. People love seeing it, they're happy. I've seen it myself. Till today, in 33-34 years, I have never spoken ill of anyone. I always feel that you have no right to take anybody's name and put the person down. I would like to give this advice to people. Don't put others down. I see it in politics, I see it in my own industry. Ek hero dusre hero ko gaali deta hai, director usko gaali deta hai, producer uss hero ko gaali deta hai (everybody is calling each other names). I just fail to understand why you all are abusing each other. There is so much of energy that is just going waste.”