AKSHAY KUMAR BIRTHDAY SPECIAL: EK DIN TOH SAMAY SAWAAL PUCHCHEGA HI NA AKSHAY KUMAR SE... By Ali Peter John

I was browsing through my mobile when I heard Akshay Kumar speaking in an interview and one line that caught my attention was, “It is very important to have the right people at the right place, at the right time and in the week” and in my mind I For the first time when Rajiv met a young man named Hariom Bhatia. He was walking alone in the premises of Nataraja Studio, carrying what looked like the portfolio of a young man, who I later learned was a struggling man looking for a break! After all my meetings with producer Ramanand Sagar, Shakti Samant and Atma Ram (Guru Dutt's younger brother) were over, I was the only man, The young man came up to me and asked me if there was any producer or director whose office was somewhere nearby. I asked him what he wanted to know. He said that he had worked as a chef in several countries and was also a gym trainer in Mumbai, apart from being a martial arts expert. I was impressed but I kept asking him what he wanted to do as all the filmmakers had left for the day? He pointed to the office of noted filmmaker, Pramod Chakraborty, producer of big hits like "Love in Tokyo", "Ziddi", "Tumsa Nahi Dekha", "Naya Zamana", "Barood", once Dharmendra with and then an Indo-Bangladesh film with Rajesh Khanna and a heroine from Bangladesh, and soon after the release of "Warrant", "Bobby" and "Trimurti" with Rishi Kapoor!

The young man, looking tired and disappointed, said he had the last of his portfolio and asked me if he could leave the photographs for Chakraborty. I told him that Chakraborty had stopped making films after Vinod Khanna signed his film and left him to join Bhagwan Rajneesh. He asked me if he could drop off photographs with an elderly man working in the garden of Chakraborty's office. I said that he was an ideal person as he had been working with Chakraborty for more than fifty years and I assured him that his photographs would be the first thing Chakraborty saw when he came into the office in the morning. The young man was relieved and he parted…. The next morning at about half past eleven, Chakraborty called me to his office at the earliest. I went to his office and he showed me pictures of the young man, About whom he said his name was Rajeev Bhatia. He asked me what I thought of the young man and I told him about the background he had given me the previous evening. Chakraborty was excited like a child and put the pictures in his briefcase. That evening he left the office early in his yellow Mercedes and went straight home! The very next morning he called me again to tell me that he had shown the pictures to his wife Lakshmi, which belonged to Guru Dutt, his engineer-son and his wife and his entire staff down to the gardener and the watchman! He asked them all what they thought about that young man! They all adored him and his wife even said that he was better than Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dutt who were the ruling star-sons in those days.

The guy who had decided never to make movies changed his mind overnight and told me he was accused of making movies again. He called Rajiv whose number was on the pictures and within an hour he had signed Rajiv who was to be called Akshay Kumar. He knew that his friend Randhir Kapoor's daughter Karisma Kapoor was looking for a good break. His mother, Babita, had acted as his heroine in “Tumsa Nahi Dekha”. He called both the parents and informed them about his decision to make a comeback with a new hero. Karishma was making her debut and it didn't matter who the hero was Chakraborty was so excited that in one day he put together an entire project featuring Mir Munir, a TV writer, as the writer, Sameer was involved as the lyricist and Anand-Milind as the music director. The news of his finding a new team spread and Akshay was signed for Raj. N. Sippy's "Saugandh" and Karishma were signed by South's D. Rama Naidu for Prem Kaidi. Chakraborty took his time to make “Deedar” and both Sippy and Naidu finished their films first and their films, “Saugandh” was known as Akshay Kumar's debut and Naidu's “Prem Qaidi”. Considered to be Karisma Kapoor's first film. Both films did average business, but Chakraborty signed Akshay Kumar for his second film as well, opposite Raveena Tandon as the hero. The hero had suddenly grown up a lot and Raveena, who was now his girlfriend, started giving Chakraborty endless problems on dates, Until Chakraborty was disgusted and took the final decision to quit making films for good and get into some other business. But he wanted to write his biography, for which he had made a room for me in his bungalow on Linking Road. Everyone was ready to start work on the biography, when I got a call at 6:30 in the morning. It was her man Friday crying on the phone as he told me that “Dada” had passed away at four in the morning after a heart attack. Chakraborty became a part of history and the young man who got Akshay Kumar his first break was on his way to creating history. When I got a call at 6:30 in the morning. It was her man Friday who was crying on the phone as he told me that "Dada" had passed away at four in the morning after a heart attack. Chakraborty became a part of history and the young man who got Akshay Kumar his first break was on his way to create history. When I got a call at 6:30 in the morning. It was her man Friday crying on the phone as he told me that “Dada” had passed away at four in the morning after a heart attack. Chakraborty became a part of history and the young man who got Akshay Kumar his first break was on his way to creating history.

Bachchan's disciple, AkshayAkshay had a chance encounter with Amitabh Bachchan in Kashmir when he was a young boy and his father encouraged him to visit Amitabh and that meeting made a very strong impression on Rajeev Hari Om Bhatia. But little did he know that he would one day work with Amitabh in a few films and share credit titles with him. And little did he know that he would one day be known for his respect for time, a quality for which he is now more and more known and almost like a competitor to Amitabh when it comes to the greatest respect for time. When it comes to being.... Akshay was known to follow the decorum of time, even when he was a newcomer! South's well-known actress Shantipriya, Who made her debut in Hindi films with Akshay in Raj. Ann Sippy's "Saugandh" recalls how Akshay was very particular and punctual on every shoot day and had no excuse for being late, as he had an innate dislike for being late, be it shooting Be it for or for dubbing sessions. Shantipriya, who was married to Dr. V. Shantaram's grandson Siddhartha Ray, who died young leaving a widow and who is still in Mumbai, remembers Akshay's fetish for the time being, which "swearing The entire unit of DK kept up its efforts with the times and he himself who had worked with all the major heroes in all the four languages ​​in the South says that the stars in the South were particular about timing but they also failed once in a while. Could have been, but Akshay was never late. The entire making of "Saugandh". Because he had an innate dislike for being late, be it for shoots or dubbing sessions. Shantipriya, who was married to Dr. V. Shantaram's grandson Siddhartha Ray, who died young leaving a widow and who is still in Mumbai, remembers Akshay's fetish for the time being, which "swearing The entire unit of DK kept up its efforts with the times and he himself who had worked with all the major heroes in all the four languages ​​in the South says that the stars in the South were particular about timing but they also failed once in a while. Could have been, but Akshay was never late. Complete construction of “Saugandh”. Because he had an innate dislike for arriving late, be it for shooting or dubbing sessions. Shantipriya, who married Siddharth Ray, grandson of Dr. V. Shantaram, who died young, leaving a widow, and who is still in Mumbai, remembers Akshay's idol for the time being, who said "Sow ” The entire unit of ” maintained its efforts over time and he himself who has worked with all the leading heroes in all four languages ​​in South, says that the stars in South were particular about time, but they also failed once. Could have been, but Akshay was never late. The entire making of "Saugandh". Remembering Akshay's idol for the time being, who made the entire unit of "Saugandh" sustain his efforts over time and he himself who has worked with all the leading heroes in all four languages ​​in the South, says that in the South Stars were particular about timings, but they too could fail once in a while, but Akshay was never late. Complete construction of “Saugandh”. Remembering Akshay's idol for the time being, who made the entire unit of "Saugandh" sustain his efforts over time and he himself who has worked with all the leading heroes in all four languages ​​in the South, says that in the South Stars were particular about timings, but they too could fail once in a while, but Akshay was never late. The entire making of "Saugandh".

It was this quality about him that some big filmmakers signed him and he was a very busy actor, but he never lost touch with the times, which he firmly believed was a quality that would make him successful in an industry. matters in which crores of rupees and lives of people were involved. Akshay made it a rule not to shoot during the night and has been known to turn down some of the most lucrative offers for new films if he learned that the film involved shooting beyond 10 pm. Being a fitness freak, he rarely attends parties and events. Where they knew they might be late and that would lead to going to bed at ten at night and getting up at four in the morning to start exercising and playing games. Activate it. Being a heavy drinker and a strict vegetarian he is always so active and physically fit person who can do all those daring stunts and adventures and take all those risks which his body has been subjected to for the last thirty five years. Has been used during.

He has maintained his decision to start on time and leave on time even while shooting abroad. He makes it a point to see that nothing comes in his way of keeping pace with the times. I once asked him to do a shoot that would be used for both his film "Police Force" and my magazine. The idea for the shoot was designed by my friend Atmaram Golatkar of Studio Link and the picture was to be shot. My photographer R. Krishna, who was instrumental in my reaching Mumbai and joining Screen, While he was one of the junior assistants of Santosh Sevan. Akshay and Atmaram had decided to shoot the picture in Nashik and they had also decided that the shooting would be done at four in the morning. We were all nervous about the idea and the one who was most worried was Krishna who liked to drink late at night and whose day started only after 2 o'clock in the afternoon. We decided that if we had to follow Akshay's time, we would not be able to sleep at all. But, we still fell asleep around two o'clock. But at three in the afternoon, Akshay got ready with makeup and went around all our rooms and woke us up. We cursed, we grumbled, but Akshay was in full swing, ready to face the challenges of the day. The photo was finally taken at about 4:30 and we had our breakfast and left for Bombay and reached before ten and it was too early for us to start our day's work. Krishna went home to sleep, But like Akshay, we all decided to report to our workplaces and wished that all work starts at 4 pm and ends by noon. It was only a wish for us, but it was a normal thing for Akshay.

I think it was Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan who first drilled this idea of ​​sleeping and getting up early into his son Amitabh's head and others like Akshay carried it out. Akshay is facing the best of times in the last two years. He has been behind the success of films like "Rustom" (for which he won his first National Award), "Toilet Ek Prem Katha", "Padman", "Kesari" and the recently released "Mission Mangal". Akshay is now seen as the model version of Mr. India, a title that once belonged exclusively to actor and filmmaker Manoj Kumar. His work in films with social relevance has also drawn him close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a fact that has won him accolades and has even become the subject of running down the Prime Minister and Akshay.

However, Akshay has reached a stage where even the criticism of not being a citizen of India does not touch him easily and his success story in the times to come is "Good Newwz", "Housefull 4", "Laxmi". Will continue with films like 'Bum'. And there are other offers that Akshay and Samay are considering. Time is very strong, so Bachchan is also strong and now Akshay is also strong. trust over time