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Akshay Kumar is currently going through a rough patch at the box office. After delivering a hit with Rohit Shetty’s Sooryavanshi last year, which also brought audiences back to the theatres in large numbers for the first time after the pandemic, the actor has had a series of unsuccessful theatrical releases in the form of Bachchhan Paandey, Samrat Prithviraj, Raksha Bandhan, and Ram Setu.
SHOCKING! This producer told Akshay Kumar, “Tumhari aukaat nahin hai,” and left him in tears
This brings back memories of the late 1990s when Akshay had an even lengthier string of flops. In fact, on one occasion a producer of his film humiliated him for his prolonged failure at the box office in such a way that the actor was reduced to tears.
This old inside scoop was revealed to Bollywood Hungama by director Suneel Darshan in an exclusive video interview that goes live later today. During that time in 1999, the filmmaker was all set to release his emotional drama Jaanwar. But before the release of this movie, Akshay had another film as the main lead. But he was shocked to realize that he did not feature anywhere on the film’s hoardings.
Sharing the story, Suneel Darshan said that Akshay confronted the producer on the same. “The producer actually replied to him and said, ‘Tumhari aukaat nahin hai,’” shared Suneel Darshan. “And he (Akshay) came here to this office, and he was in tears. He felt so humiliated. When you are not doing well, people don’t let you be. They push you down deeper. And that’s the stage he was going through. I said, this is very, very bad because he was the hero of my movie (Jaanwar) also.”
Hence, Suneel Darshan decided to keep Akshay at the forefront on the banners of Jaanwar. He added, “Immediately I went to Mr. Rahul and Himanshu Nanda, who were the designers of the film publicity. I told them that in the next 48 hours, I want you to take the biggest site in Bombay, which was in Juhu. I said I want a backlit banner, which was very expensive then. I said I want you to design this thing of Akshay Kumar’s photograph as the principal actor (in Jaanwar).”
Suneel Darshan also went to the extent of not including the two leading ladies of Jaanwar on the poster. “I said, see that we don’t put Karisma (Kapoor) and Shilpa (Shetty) on the poster,” he said. “I said, it should be dedicated to the star because a star needs to have the confidence that the people are trying to shatter of his.”
Suneel Darshan however didn’t reveal the name of the film whose producer humiliated Akshay.
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