Rajiv Hari “Akshay Kumar”” Om Bhatia was born on September 09, 1967, in Amritsar, Punjab to Aruna Bhatia and Hari Om Bhatia. He is an Indian actor, film producer, former model, and television personality. He went to Bangkok to learn how to use a sword and also worked as a waiter in a restaurant. He studied martial arts in Hong Kong. It was a student who suggested that he should try modeling. Because of his success as model, he was offered films. Along with his good looks and excellent martial art skills, he was always the first choice to do adventurous movies. He does his own stunts in his films. His breakthrough performance was in Saugandh (1991). He was well known for his Khiladi series, an Indian version of James Bond, such as Mr. Bond (1992), Khiladi (1992), Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994), Mr. & Mrs. Khiladi (1997) and Khiladi 420 (2000). He dated strings of his co-stars including Raveena Tandon, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Pooja Batra and Rekha. His recent critically acclaimed performances include Airlift (2016), Baby (2015) and Rustom (2016). He is married to former actress and now author Twinkle Khanna with whom he has two children.”
Akshay Kumar
Movies
Desi Boyz
Based in England, Nikhil Mathur is employed as an Investment Banker and has a idealist girlfriend in Radhika Awasthi. His friend, Jignesh Patel, works as a Security Guard in a mall and is the guardian of Veer, his late sister’s son, and under close scrutiny of the Social Services Department.…
Kambakkht Ishq
After Hollywood stuntman Lucky Doshi marries Kamini Sandhu, his Punjab-born friend and fellow Universal Studios colleague Viraj Shergill chastises him, while Kamini’s man-hating surgeon friend Simrita Rai coaches her to not be intimate with him. Simrita and Viraj clash verbally several times but things change after he ruptures his intestine…
Dil To Pagal Hai
DIL TO PAGAL HAI is the story of Rahul (Shahrukh Khan), who does not believe in love. Rahul fails to understand how two people can spend their lives together. It is the story of Pooja (Madhuri Dixit), who believes that there is someone who is made for her and she…
Dishoom
When India’s top batsman Viraj goes missing in Middle East, two cops Kabir Shergill and Junaid Ansari from either side of Arabian Sea team for a 36-hours man hunt before the final match between India and Pakistan.
Khatta Meetha (2010)
Satara-based petty road-works contractor, Sachin Tichkule, faces challenges when the Satara Municipal Corporation puts a hold on his payment. He decides to sue them, while his extended family deal with the crisis of a recently-collapsed bridge resulting in 65 deaths. If matters were not bad enough, the new Municipal Commissioner…
Khiladi
Four friends Raj Malhotra, Boney, Neelam Chaudhary and Sheetal decide to play a practical joke on Sheetal’s dad Kailash Nath. They telephone Kailash and tell him that his daughter has been kidnapped and demand a ransom of Rs. 200,000. Things seem to go according to plan until the police headed…
Action Replayy
After witnessing nothing but acrimony between his bickering Mumbai-based parents, Kishen and Mala Chopra, Bunty refuses to marry his girlfriend, Tanya Gonsalves. He is then introduced to her eccentric grandfather, Professor Anthony Gonsalves, and finds that the latter has invented a time-travel machine. Bunty travels back in time–specifically Holi 1975–when…
Rowdy Rathore
Shiva (Akshay Kumar) is a small time conman in love with Paro (Sonakshi Sinha), a pretty girl whom he met at a wedding he wasn’t invited to. Into this picture perfect world enters six year old Chinki who inexplicably believes Shiva to be her dad! And if this wasn’t bad…
Rustom
Naval officer Rustom Pavri returns from his posting and finds his wife Cynthia is away from home since last two days his marriages is on the rocks when he finds love letters in cupboard which indicates that Cynthia has found love in one of his friend Vikram Makhija an arrogant…
Songs
Aitraaz
Successful businessman Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) has everything going for him, including a lovely wife (Kareena Kapoor). Just when he thinks things can’t get any better, Sonia (Priyanka Chopra) – his ex-girlfriend, now the boss’s wife – walks back into his life – and she wants Raj. After he rejects…
Ek Rishta
Multi-millionaire Vijay Kapoor own and manages his factory which prospers yielding profits to provide a source of income for his family. After completing his studies abroad; Vijay’s only son, Ajay join his dad’s business. Upon the entry of Rajesh who proposes marriage to Vijay’s daughter Priti things started to go…
Andaaz
Young Raj Malhotra lives with his elder brother, Rohit; his bhabi, Kiran, and a niece. After an accident fractures his leg, he is unable to walk for some time. Due to psychological reasons, he cannot walk even after the fracture heals. When the Malhotras move to Dehra Dun, Raj befriends…
Sangharsh
CBI officer Reet Oberoi sought assistance from a jail convict Professor Aman Varma to bring Lajja Shankar Pandey; a religious fanatic to justice. Pandey is responsible for abducting children and sacrifice them. But Aman is not willing to co-operate with Reet and instead scuffs at her which leads her into…
Gabbar Is Back
Gabbar Singh Rajput (Akshay Kumar) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti-Corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. As pressure builds on Police and Government to track down the man who masterminds these killings, CBI Officer Kuldeep…
Garam Masala
Shyam and Makarand work as photographers in a commercial advertising agency. Both of them like to fool around with women, even though Makarand is engaged to be married to a doctor named Anjali. In order to outsmart each other, they two get into a competition of shooting a photograph, and…
Simmba
Simmba is an orphan from Shivgadh from where our beloved Singham was born and raised. Contrary to the philosophies of Singham, Simmba believes that a Corrupt Officer’s life is an ideal life which inspires him to become one. While Simmba enjoys all the perks of being an immoral and unethical…
Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya
Shiv (Abhishek Bachchan) and Pooja (Karisma Kapoor) are happily married to each other but sometimes can get into the most petty arguments coming from the way they approach life. Shiv takes each day as it comes whilst Pooja’s imagination sometimes gets the best of her. Pooja falls in love with…
Tashan
What happens when you throw two guys who hate each other together. A cool call center executive Jimmy Cliff (Saif Ali Khan), a desi wannabe gangster Bachchan Pande (Akshay Kumar) add for good measure a beautiful girl Pooja (Kareena Kapoor) who cant be trusted – on a journey across spectacular…
Tees Maar Khan
A stylish Tabrez Khan (Akshay Kumar) is depicted as Tees Maar Khan, a smart conman. He proclaims himself as semi-Robin Hood, who steals from the rich but does not give it to the poor. His life revolves around robbery and frequent visits to jail. Hired by a robbers’ duo, the…
Bewafaa
Anjali, living in Canada with her parents, hides her relationship to the musician Raja from her parents. When her sister dies during the birth of twins, she abandons her love, marries the widower Aditya and moves to New Delhi to become the new mother of her sister’s children. Three years…
Heyy Babyy
Arush Mehra lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in Sydney, Australia along with two room-mates, Tanmay Joglekar, and Ali Hyder. He works for a food chain, while Tanmay entertains children as ‘Eddy Teddy’, and Ali takes care of their apartment. All three are womanizers and usually end up sleeping with around…
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
Sunny rents a room in a City called Goa in India. His room-mate is Sameer, who likes to fool around with woman, then dump them. He eventually falls in love, then gets dumped. Sorrowful and repentant, Sameer also has had many misadventures, especially when he ended up slapping an elderly…
Thank You
Raj, Yogi and Vikram – best friends, business partners, serial womanizers and happily married! Happy, because their lovely wives have no clue that their husbands cheat on them with every pretty young thing they can lay their eyes on. This picture perfect world is rocked when Raj’s wife, Sanjana begins…
Housefull
Housefull is a romantic comedy entertainer which narrates the story of Aarush – the world’s unluckiest man. Being jinxed, he believes his bad luck can vanish if he finds true love. In this quest for true love how one lie leads to another and how different people from different walks…
Housefull 2
Housefull 2 is about the Kapoor family. Daboo and Chintu are brothers but they hate each other to the core. Even their wives and daughters hate each other. Both claim that they are going to get the richest son-in-law for their daughter. Aakhri Pasta, a marriage counselor, brings Jai’s parents…
Housefull 3
London based business men Batuk Patel lives with his three daughters Ganga (Gracy),Jamuna (Jenny) and Saraswati (Sarah).The sisters want to get married to their boyfriends Sandy,Teddy and Bunty and speak to their father.But Aakhri Pasta a restaurant owner whose also a fortune teller to Batuk tells him that he will…
Chalo Dilli
While on her way to Mumbai airport to board a plane to Delhi, a busy business executive, who employs over 600 employees, gets stuck in a traffic jam, and misses her flight. She blames her predicament on an auto-rickshaw passenger, Manu Gupta, and is appalled when the latter is her…
Om Shanti Om
Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artist in the 1970s Hindi film industry and in love with actress Shantipriya. Om rescues Shanti from an out-of-control fire scene and they become friends. His hopes seem to be coming true–until he finds out that she’s married to film producer Mukesh Mehra and…
Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai
Rajesh Parekh, a simple Gujarati boy who’s been looking for love since he was a baby. Thoroughly unsuccessful in his endeavors, he nearly gives up till he meets Natasha, the girl of his dreams. Desh is the youngest superstar in the country. Mothers want to adopt him and their daughters…
Yeh Dillagi
Sapna (Kajol) was a frequent visitor to the Saigal mansion as her father was the most trusted driver of the family. She envied the rich, and wanted to be like them. When she is reminded of her social status by the super rich brat Vicky Saigal (Saif Ali Khan), she…
Daava
Inspector Arjun and his two siblings, Bhishma and Suraj are made targets when they decides to go against a notorious criminal gang who call themselves, ‘Chamunda brothers’. The gang first kill Suraj when he attempt to expose their unlawful activities and then they attempt to split Arjun and Bhishma over…
Fun Facts
Was a martial arts teacher. One of his students suggested he model and he was soon offered films after his success as a model.
Has a son with wife Twinkle Khanna named Araav born 15th September 2002. Became an uncle when sister-in-law Rinke Khanna gave birth to a baby girl on 19 October 2004.
Won Best Villain award for Ajnabee (2001) as it was his first ever award since his career started in 1991.
He is the son-in-law of India and Hindi Film Industry's first ever Superstar, Rajesh Khanna and actress, Dimple Kapadia, as well as the brother-in-law of actress Rinke Khanna.
Was working as a chef in a restaurant in Bangkok before entering films.
Studied martial arts in Bangkok before becoming an actor.
Formed a popular team with Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal.
He is good friends with fellow actor & superstar, Salman Khan. They have done two films together, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004) and Jaan-E-Mann: Lets Fall in Love Again (2006).
Has formed a popular on-screen pairing with Katrina Kaif after super hits such as Welcome (2007), Namastey London (2007) and Singh Is King (2008) together.
Has a daughter, born on September 25, 2012, named Nitara Rajesh Khanna in honor of his father-in-law Rajesh Khanna who passed away in 2012.
A major WWE wrestling fan. Met WWE Superstar Kane at his residence in India in 2010.
Son of producer Aruna Bhatia.
Niece's name is Simar (Kapoor) Bhatia. Simar had her name legally changed by her mother to Bhatia after she divorced Simar's father. Akshay Kumar sister Alka was earlier married to Vaibhav Kapoor. Vaibhav's mother Rani had a store called Shehnaaz Herbal Parlour in Mumbai.
Often mistaken as Master Rajiv Bhatia who debuted in Sanjay Khan's Abdullah (1980).
Auditioned for Deepak Tijori's role in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992) and was rejected.
Decided to keep his name Akshay in Bollywood after he had done a 15 second role in the film Aaj (1987).
While training in Bangkok for martial arts he worked has a waiter in hotel to support himself, in those days he admired Sridevi.
Akshay Kumar brother in law is Surendra Hiranandani . This is sister Alka's second marriage.
Director Pramod Chakravarthy gave him his first break in Saugandh (1991).
Was engaged to actor Praveen Kumar daughter Nipunika Sobti in the year 1997.
Went for a world tour concert with Salman Khan in June 1995. They visited cities in Canada, America and England .
Went for a world tour concert with Rishi Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Raveena Tandon, Juhi Chawla. This was in September 1994. They visited cities in Canada, America, England.
Akshay Kumar was gone for some action training and he lost 20 kilograms for his roll in his upcoming new comedy movie HouseFull 3.
Was engaged to model Dimple Varma in 1991. She is the daughter of Banglore based director of Mahindra & Mahindra..
Prakash Mehra had a script with him for many years. He started a film in the 1980' s as the much hyped " Kaayar"" with Amitabh Bachchan
Quotes
Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it.
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.
Look at what destiny had in store for me. I married my idol's daughter! I still can't believe it. Who wasn't his fan in the 1970s and 80s? I remember queuing up for hours with parents to watch repeatedly Aradhana, Amar Prem, Kati Patang, Prem Kahani, Aap Ki Kasam, Chhailla Babu, Anurodh, Amardeep and then watching as a teenager in theaters Bandish, Kudrat, Aanchal, Ashanti,Souten, Awaaz, Dharm Aur Qanoon, Maqsad, and many more. These are among my favorite films of all times.