{"id":7041,"date":"2025-08-22T02:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/akshay-kumar-was-never-considered-a-great-actor-people-werent-taking-him-seriously-vipul-shah-bollywood-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T02:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:49:01","slug":"akshay-kumar-was-never-considered-a-great-actor-people-werent-taking-him-seriously-vipul-shah-bollywood-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/akshay-kumar-was-never-considered-a-great-actor-people-werent-taking-him-seriously-vipul-shah-bollywood-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Akshay Kumar &#8216;Was Never Considered A Great Actor, People Weren&#8217;t Taking Him Seriously&#8217;: Vipul Shah | Bollywood News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-9520636\">\n<p><span class=\"jsx-3cea4b2331e41d4a\">Last Updated:<\/span><time class=\"jsx-3cea4b2331e41d4a\">August 22, 2025, 08:08 IST<\/time><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"asubttl-9520636\" class=\"jsx-ff263f4b724d470d jsx-3550115736 asubttl-schema\">Filmmaker Vipul Shah mentioned that Akshay Kumar has much more to offer, but doesn&#8217;t get his due credit.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c artsharwrp\">\n<div id=\"artshare\" class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c artshare\">\n<div class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c stickdiv\">\n<div class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c deskwrapstkdiv\">\n<div class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c flwonstk\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news18.co\/gnps-en-btn\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin:0 12px 0 0\" class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/dlxczavtqcctuei\/news18\/static\/images\/english\/gogole-serarch-btn.svg\" alt=\"Click to add News18 as a preferred source on Google\" title=\"Click to add News18 as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"94px\" height=\"30px\" style=\"vertical-align:top\" class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c fontchange\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/dlxczavtqcctuei\/news18\/static\/images\/english\/font.svg\" height=\"30px\" width=\"30px\" alt=\"font\" class=\"jsx-f62078ffd315d67c lazyload\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"jsx-ff263f4b724d470d jsx-3550115736 amimg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Akshay Kumar will next be seen in Jolly LLB 3. \" title=\"Akshay Kumar will next be seen in Jolly LLB 3. \" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&amp;width=400&amp;height=225\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"jsx-ff263f4b724d470d jsx-3550115736\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Akshay Kumar will next be seen in Jolly LLB 3. <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"0\" class=\"story_para_0\">Akshay Kumar is a superstar in his own right, but filmmaker Vipul Shah believes that he doesn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1\" class=\"story_para_1\">Vipul Shah told Gallata Plus, \u201cIn my first two films when I was working with Akshay, I realised here is an actor who himself doesn\u2019t 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 \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019 space. But, I thought that he had a lot more to offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"2\" class=\"story_para_2\">The filmmaker explained, \u201cWell, when you\u2019re working with someone, you get to see how they\u2019re approaching a scene, how easily they can switch. Like, yesterday we were doing a comic scene, and today we\u2019re 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"3\" class=\"story_para_3\">He added, \u201cI 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"4\" class=\"story_para_4\">\u201cHe\u2019s a total Punjabi guy at heart and soul, but no one had presented him that way. And that\u2019s 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\u2019s what comes most naturally to him,&#8221; the filmmaker said. He also noted how Akshay Kumar has managed to stay relevant all these years by consistently reinventing himself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atawrap\">\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atadetailwrp\">\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd ataname\"><span class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atthumb\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"authorimg\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-28-at-13.54.32-2025-04-1a68df873a59d2e9970c8a7e91aa53b7.jpeg?impolicy=website&amp;width=60&amp;height=60\" class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd attitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/byline\/kashvi-raj-singh-27151.html\" class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atamail\">Kashvi Raj Singh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kashvi Raj Singh is a Sub Editor at News18. She extensively covers Bollywood, Hollywood and television. 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Akshay Kumar is a superstar in his own right, but filmmaker Vipul Shah believes that he doesn\u2019t get the credit he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}