What are some interesting facts about Akshay Kumar?

 50+ interesting facts about Akshay Kumar

1. Akshay Kumar was born in Delhi not Amritsar contrary to popular reports
2. Both Akshay Kumar and his father Hari Om Bharia are huge fans of Dharmendra
3. Akshay Kumar was called the 2nd Dharmendra when he came into this industry
4. Ekta Kapoor and a whole host of people also call Akshay Kumar a modern-day equivalent of Jeetendra
5. Akshay Kumar was a huge Amitabh Bachchan fan growing up
6. Akshay Kumar has never publically mentioned of being a huge Rajesh Khanna fan who later on became his father in law
7. Akshay Kumar's first movie was Saughandh but he had signed Deedaar first which eventually became his 5th movie
8. Akshay Kumar has been compared to Mithun Chakraborty as he like Mithun has a knack of doing multiple movies in a single calendar year
9. Before his marriage to Twinkle Khanna Akshay Kumar was quite the Casanova with link ups to Raveena Tandon, Shilpa Shetty and Aishwarya Rai
10. The Darshan trio Akshay Kumar has had successful occasions with Sunil Darshan, Dharmesh Darshan and Priyadarshan
11. Romance vs Action Akshay Kumar with Ajay Devgan and Sunil Shetty were considered the action equivalent to the romantic Khan trio
12. Akshay Kumar apart from Shah Rukh Khan is the only outsider in the last 4 decades to achieve superstardom
13. Akshay Kumar was not very much interested in studies
14. Akshay Kumar has a black belt but this claim has been questioned from time to time
15. After doing Yeh Dillagi with Yrf Akshay Kumar was considered being offered the main lead in a movie called Maine Mohabbat Kar Li but after the huge success of Ddlj the Maine Mohabbat Kar Li became Dtph in which he played a supporting role opposite SRK
16. Due to his bad times it's rumoured that Akshay Kumar was not paid any fee for Dtph hence he didn't work with Yrf for 10 years he later did Tashan with them in 2008
17. Akshay Kumar's first hit Khiladi had clashed with Jackie Shroff’s Police Officer Khiladi was a sleeper hit police officer and average grosser
18. Akshay Kumar has worked in Delhi, Bangkok, Kolkata and even Bangladesh
19. He's known to be a very good cook/chef
20. Akshay Kumar is very fitness conscious teetotaller who abstains from smoking and drinking which is rampant in bollywood and he also detests weight lifting instead focuses more on bodyweight training
21. Akshay Kumar has become bollywood's go to police officer after the yesteryear Iftikhar saab
22. The stunt in Khiladi 420 was done by Akshay Kumar himself without any help from stuntmen
23. Akshay Kumar was allegedly unhappy with his sister's marriage but later gave in and happily attended his sister's wedding ceremony
24. Film producer and director Sajid Nadiadwala is Akshay Kumar's school mate with whom Akshay has done multiple movies
25. Akshay Kumar's billed height is 6′1″ but according to me he's closer to being 5′11″
26. After 1997 Akshay Kumar never kept long hair again he was known as lambe baloon wala Khiladi closest he became to long hair was in corona lockdown era
27. Akshay Kumar is a very religious person who does Pooja regularly and even visit islamic shrines he can be seen wearing a black thread on his ankle
28. Akshay Kumar assisted Jayesh Seth a famous photographer before becoming a bollywood actor
29. During his assistance with Jayesh Seth he met Govinda who told Akshay Kumar your very good looking and can become a hero also
30. Akshay Kumar took training from actress Madhumati and was given tution by Chunky Pandey who was a senior student of Madhumati
31. Akshay Kumar's iconic movie Hera Pheri was launched as Raftar with Sanjay Dutt
32. Steven Saigal and along with bollywood stars Dilip Kumar, SRK and Balasaheb Thackeray attended it's mahurat
33. Akshay Kumar along with yesteryear actors such as Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh etc is the only modern day actor to give 4 hits in a year
34. Akshay Kumar is a huge fan of cricket and volleyball and plays these sports regularly
35. Apart from having a huge car collection Akshay Kumar has stated that he prefers motorcycles more
36. Akshay Kumar inspite of not being a trained dancer is considered one of the best dancers Unlike Hrithik Roshan
37. Akshay Kumar has been accused of chopping of the roles of his co-stars such as Shahid Kapoor and John Abraham
38. Akshay Kumar sometime back was a Canadian citizen
39. Akshay Kumar has a tattoo of his son Aarav on his back
40. Akshay Kumar won the National Award for the movie Rustom inspite of never winning a Filmfare award
41. Akshay Kumar was the original choice for movies such as Baazigar and even Bhaag Milkha Bhaag even Deepak tijori role in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar and Ajay Devgan's Debut movie were offered to Akshay Kumar
42. Apart from the famous Modi interview Akshay Kumar himself is a huge lover of mangoes
43. Due to Akshay Kumar's affinity in becoming a moustached actor this became the reason for Akshay Kumar's portfolio taking longer than usual as Jayesh Seth wanted him clean shaved
44. The bunglow on top of which the portfolio was conducted is now owned by Akshay Kumar himself
45. Inspite of being a huge fan of Dharmendra and regularly working with Bobby Deol Akshay Kumar never really shared screwed space with Sunny Deol they were in Jaani Dushman but no screen sharing
46. Akshay Kumar prefers to keep a short to medium length side swept ,side parting hairstyle
47. Akshay Kumar is a certified diver and didn't need to take any particular training in doing underwater scenes in movies.
48. Akshay Kumar gives huge credit to priyadarshan and raj kumar santoshi in helping him find his comedic bone in movies like Hera Pheri and Khakee
49. Apart from Hindi Akshay Kumar can speak Marathi and Punjabi very well but he has some discomfort speaking English which according to me he can speak well also
50. Akshay Kumar in the modern day meme world has become the most memed actor