I don’t take myself seriously: Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar has become synonyms with box office success, but the actor says he doesn’t take his brand “seriously” and believes in surrendering to the director’s vision.The actor, who has proved his commercial viability in action, comedy and social dramas, said there is no trick or method to his success as he learnt everything from life experiences.”I did not go to any acting school, I did not learn anything. I learnt things from my own experiences. So there was no method used as such. I don’t take myself seriously I go with the flow. I hold my director’s hand and I do what he says, as he is the captain of the ship. That ship shouldn’t turn out to be Titanic,” Akshay said in a group interview here.
The 52-year-old superstar, who started his journey in movies with action films, believes it is important to not get pigeonholed.“The basic idea is you should keep on jumping from one genre to other. I did a mistake initially in my career by sticking around to only one genre of films, like I kept on doing action films. One should not get bored due to their work. If you keep doing different things you will enjoy it.”Akshay credits filmmakers Rajkumar Santoshi and Priyadarshan for offering him out-of-the-box stories when he was trapped in the action hero image.“There are couple of films like ‘Sangharsh’, ‘Hera Pheri’, ‘Jaanwar’ and others. I am glad I got to do different genres and to be working with different people in the film industry like Rajkumar Santoshi, Priyadarshan and late Neeraj Vora, these people have contributed a lot (to my career) and made me realise that I can act in different genres,” he said.
