Akshay Kumar
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Akshay Kumar Biography
Akshay Kumar was born on September 9, 1967. His birth name is Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia. Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia was born to a middle class Punjabi family in Jalandhar (Punjab). His father was a government worker. Kumar lived in Delhi for some time before moving to Mumbai. He lived in Koliwada which was a Punjabi dominated area. And then moved to Amritsar. He studied at Don Bosco school and then Khalsa College, where he took an interest in sports.
Akshay Kumar studied martial arts in Bangkok and worked as a Chef. He then came back to Mumbai, where he started teaching martial arts. One of his students happened to be a photographer and recommended him to do modelling. The student gave him a modelling assignment for a small company. For his two hours posing in front of the camera, Kumar got Rs. 5,000, compared to his previous salary of Rs. 4,000 in one month. That was one of the main reasons why he chose to be a model. After a couple of months of modelling, Kumar was finally offered a lead role by producer Pramod Chakravarthy for the movie Deedar. Over the years he has become a fine Indian film actor who appears in Hindi language films, also known as Bollywood.
During the 90s, Akshay Kumar was primarily described as the action hero of Bollywood, starring in hit action films such as Khiladi (1992), Mohra (1994) and Sabse Bada Khiladi (1995), and being particularly known for his "Khiladi Series". However, he was simultaneously recognised for his performances in romantic films like Yeh Dillagi (1994) and Dhadkan (2000) as well as dramatic films such as Ek Rishtaa (2001), showing his versatility to perform a range of roles.
Akshay Kumar Personal Life
During his years in Bollywood, Akshay Kumar was romantically linked with several of his co-star actresses like Raveena Tandon, Shilpa Shetty and Priyanka Chopra. After being engaged twice to actress Twinkle Khanna, the daughter of veteran actors Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, he finally married her on January 14, 2001. Their son named Aarav was born on September 15, 2002.
In 2007, a leading Mumbai tabloid newspaper printed a story saying that Kumar and his wife had fallen out and Kumar had moved out of his home, staying at a hotel instead. On July 26, 2007 the couple sent a legal notice to the tabloid, declaring that the rumour was false.
Akshay Kumar Filmography
- Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007 Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Amisha Patel, Shiny Ahuja, Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav)
- Bhagam Bhag (2007 Cast: Akshay Kumar, Govinda, Lara Dutta )
- Waqt – A Race Against Time (2005)( Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra)
- Aitraaz (2004)( Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Paresh Rawal)
- Asambhav (2004)( Arjun Rampal, Naseeruddin Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Akshay Kumar)
- Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (July 30, 2004) (Cast: Akshay Kumar , Salman Khan , Priyanka Chopra, Amrita Arora, Amrish Puri, Rajpal Yadav and Satish Shah)
- Humko Deewana Kar Gaye -2006 ( Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan, Bipasha Basu, Bhagyashree)
- Welcome (Cast: Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif)
- Dosti - Friends Forever ( Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Mona Chopra, Juhi Chawla)
- Ajnabee -2001(Cast: Bobby Deol, Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Bipasha Basu, Johnny Lever)
- Bewafaa - 2005 (Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Akshay Kumar, Shamita Shetty, Manoj Bajpai, Supriya Pathak, Kabir Bedi, Nafisa Ali )
- Insan ( Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Esha Deol, Lara Dutta, Tusshar Kapoor, Rahul Dev)
- Aan - Men At Work ( Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Shatrughan Sinha, Paresh Rawal, Irrfan Khan, Jackie Shroff, Raveena Tandon, Lara Dutta, Preeti Jhangiani)
- Awara Paagal Deewana (2002 Cast: Amrita Arora, Akshay Kumar, Aarti Chhabria, Aaftab Shivdasani, Sunil Shetty, Preeti Jhangiani)