When an offbeat film of yours ends up finding all-around appreciation, starts breaking records, gives a character artist a hero status, battles challenges that could have been reputation threatening and ends up gaining a cult status for itself, it can be pretty much said that things are indeed falling in place for you as a filmmaker.
Akshay Kumar may well be saying this to himself, what with ‘OMG – Oh My God’ cruising towards the 80 crore mark just in India and carrying a decent chance of registering 100 crore in worldwide collections. This, when two of his films (Housefull 2, Rowdy Rathore) have already joined the 100 crore club this year and one more (Khiladi 786) is all set to repeat the feat in less than two months from now.
The man who was being questioned for his script selection not too long ago is now being hailed for getting it right across genres and scoring well too. The same guy who hadn’t lost his charm or the acting prowess, was the fittest in the business, had boasted of looks that had stayed steady despite a few downs in his career and had glowed without the need of any surgical helps, smiled through his not so good times and is now calling the shots in a big way, and how.
Suddenly, all choices made by him seem to be worth in gold. ‘Khiladi 786’ is coming across as a true blue action comedy franchise which just can’t go wrong. ‘Special Chabbis’ is touted as a slick heist thriller in the offering early next year. ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2’ is a sequel that stands tall amidst Top-5 most awaited films of 2013. ‘Naam Hai Boss’ is an entertaining ‘masala’ flick that has the cushion of being a South remake. With another remake already in the pipeline with A.R. Murugadoss and close friend Sajid Nadiadwala planning a biggie with him, Akshay has earned his Bollywood standing in a big way.
This isn’t where he is stopping as his freshly floated production house ‘Grazing Goat’ has pretty much turned out to be a ‘Golden Goat’ for him. With many more productions in the pipeline, starting with ’72 Miles’ which is ready for release, Akshay is juggling his many roles and revelling in all the success coming his way. Clearly, he is enjoying the best phase of his career and just like the Khan trio along with Ajay Devgn has firmed up his place further in the Top-5.
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ETT was definitely better than Ready & Raone. Somebody told that a superstar cannot give flops at the peak of the career. Then Rajesh Khanna gave flops after 15 hits back to back. Then SRK film Billu flopped after OSO,Chakde India & RNBJ. Dhobighat did 14 crores lifetime business after 3 Idiots did 202 crore business. Salman gave 4 flops back to back after Partner in 2008. Hrithik’s films Kites & Guzaarish flopped after blockbusters Krish,Dhoom 2 and hit Jodha Akbar.
pervert guyz….. just recall the dialogue of Guru movie….. jab log tumhare khilaf bolne lage, to samjho tarakki kar rahe ho :) tarakki is alwz der for akki ;)
hey all idiots don’t tell anything wrong about akshay he is the real and superb king of bollywood…!becoz he had done large number of films as compared to other actors..he did 4 to 5 films in 2012 only see how much hard work he had done…
we must not under estimate and over also for each actor..
even salman had given veer as flop and shahrukh had given kank as flop in their career peaks
so i vote akshay is a great actor and is completely eligible for top five ….sorry top three…….