Akshay Kumar recalls Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘kaam karte rehna’ advice amid criticism for BMCM failure: ‘Gave 80 days to that film, kya ukhaad liya?’

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He said, “I’ve seen people who work selectively, and their films flop as well. In our industry, what happens is that people stop offering you work if you deliver flops. Look at Mr Bachchan. He was the one who told me, ‘Akshay, kaam karte rehna beta. Kaam ko mat chhorna (Akshay, don’t turn down work). I learned this from him… Calculation is wrong, manipulation is wrong. Honesty is right, creativity is right. Believing in your luck is right. This is what I’ve learned.”

In the same interview, Akshay addressed being written off by the industry, and said that he isn’t a ‘racehorse’. He also suggested that certain people within the industry celebrate when he fails. But he didn’t take any names, noting that he is disgusted by the politics that he sees around himself. Akshay has appeared in only two clean hits in the post-pandemic years – OMG 2, but he wasn’t the lead of that film, and Sooryavanshi, which also features several other stars and a big-name director. Among his many high-profile recent flops are Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, Raksha Bandhan, Ram Setu, Samrat Prithviraj, Selfiee, Bachchhan Paandey. He can currently be seen in Sarfira, a remake of Soorarai Pottru.