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Filmmaker Vipul Shah mentioned that Akshay Kumar has much more to offer, but doesn’t get his due credit.
Akshay Kumar will next be seen in Jolly LLB 3.
Akshay Kumar is a superstar in his own right, but filmmaker Vipul Shah believes that he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. In a recent chat, Vipul Shah opened up about working with Akshay Kumar and said that the actor himself doesn’t know how much greatness he is capable of. The filmmaker mentioned that while Akshay was never touted as a great actor by critics, he has much more to offer.
Vipul Shah told Gallata Plus, “In my first two films when I was working with Akshay, I realised here is an actor who himself doesn’t know what he is capable of. He was just being labelled as an action hero, and in that era, he was changing his image by doing comedy films, but people were not taking him seriously. Maybe, he was never considered a great actor or even a good actor by any reviewers, so he also kind of had this ‘I don’t care’ space. But, I thought that he had a lot more to offer.”
The filmmaker explained, “Well, when you’re working with someone, you get to see how they’re approaching a scene, how easily they can switch. Like, yesterday we were doing a comic scene, and today we’re doing a serious, thriller moment, and he could just jump into it. There was no baggage of what he had done last, and it never broke the character.”
He added, “I was seeing that in both the films I worked with him, two completely different characters, and he was just so comfortable doing a lot of things as an actor that nobody really gave him credit for. Then, I realised that nobody, in his entire career, had made him a Punjabi munda.”
“He’s a total Punjabi guy at heart and soul, but no one had presented him that way. And that’s what Namaste London was going to do: give him that space to be himself, the Punjabi munda, the carefree, fun-loving guy. He just slipped into the film smooth as silk, because that’s what comes most naturally to him,” the filmmaker said. He also noted how Akshay Kumar has managed to stay relevant all these years by consistently reinventing himself.
Kashvi Raj Singh is a Sub Editor at News18. She extensively covers Bollywood, Hollywood and television. She not only keeps an eye out for interesting news angles but also often writes social commentary in long-…Read More
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