Mumbai: Akshay Kumar commented on the box office failure of his last few releases, saying it’s absurd that people are writing him off just because some of his films didn’t do well. The actor said that he isn’t too bothered by such comments and will continue to work hard the way he has done in his three-decade-old career.
Kumar’s last few films including ‘Sarfira’, ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’, ‘Mission Raniganj’, ‘Selfiee’, ‘Raksha Bandhan’, ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ and ‘Bachchhan Pandey’ performed poorly at the box office.
“Whatever happens, happens for good. I don’t think too much about the box office failure of my films. Four or five films of mine haven’t worked and I get so many messages, saying, ‘Don’t worry my friend’. I’m not dead! It feels like people are sending me obituary messages, like how people send condolences through messages. One journalist even wrote, ‘You’ll be back’ I called him up and asked, ‘Why are you writing this? What does ‘back’ mean? Where have I gone?’,” Kumar told reporters at the trailer launch of his upcoming film, ‘Khel Khel Mein’.
The 56-year-old actor said that his focus is to continue working hard. “I’m here and I’ll keep working. I’ll always keep working irrespective of whatever people say. In the morning, I wake up, exercise and leave for work and return home. Whatever I earn, I earn on my own. I’ll never snatch anything from anyone. I’ll keep on working till they shoot me down to stop me from working.”
‘Khel Khel Mein’ boasts of an ensemble cast including Taapsee Pannu, Vaani Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Ammy Virk, Aditya Seal and Pragya Jaiswal. The film is set to clash at the box office with two Hindi movies: John Abraham-starrer ‘Vedaa’ and Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor’s ‘Stree 2’, on August 15.