The dark horse
The dark horse
Twenty years into Bollywood, Akshay still wins over his audience
By Bidisha Ghosal
A quick background check on the top five superstars of Bollywood today: Shah Rukh Khan studied in prestigious Delhi schools and received the best training an aspiring actor could get. Aamir Khan and Salman Khan hail from film families and grew up breathing, eating and sleeping films. Amitabh Bachchan comes from an academically accomplished family and is lauded for his cultured baritone. And then you have Akshay Kumar, lesser known as Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, who travelled like a nomad and worked as a cook, jewellery seller, small-time model and martial arts teacher.
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January 30, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Thanks for the piece. The first para is a bit silly though. So Aamir and Salman have film backgrounds and SRK studied in good schools and bachchan has an ‘academic’ background.. all of this is the same sort of advantage when it comes to landing a film?!
And Akshay has been around for 20 years but at least half of those were spent in irrelevance.
January 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM
Yep.