AKSHAYE KHANNA

 Akshaye Khanna was born on 28^th March 1975. After watching the movie named ‘Dil Chanhta Hai,’ I became a huge fan of him. He had done such beautiful acting in the movie. He had proved that he can do different types of roles like comedy, serious and villain. Comedy like Hulchul and Mere Baap Pehle Aap are good examples. Humraaz, Race, and  Dishoom are the movies in which he had played the villain role. Among them, I loved the movie Humraaz and Race. He had done an outstanding role in those movies.

Whatever, the role is given to him, he goes in the details but somehow he is overshadowed by his co-stars like Aishwarya Rai in Aa Ab Laut Chalen, Anil Kapoor in Taal, Ajay Devgan in Deewangee, Sunny Deol in Border, Paresh Rawal in Hulchul and Hugama.

Moreover, he experiments with his role and his hairstyle. That’s why he has done different genres of movies. Although he had the acting skills, he is still an underrated actor. It’s because he has fewer fans. Not only that, but he also had less number of films that he plays.

In Akshaye’s ebb lies a craft that’s magnified by the immense potential but also limited by an extreme pickiness; tradecraft that’s given- unless you consider flops like “Aarzoo”, “Mohabbat”, “36 Chinatown”- defining roles but also valuable ones. And it’s not just the young, cultured painter in love with an elderly woman that makes Akshaye an artist supremely graceful but intelligent, his adaptability to humor and tragedy in equal measure, going from a laugh-riot like Hungama to an emotionally draining biopic like Gandhi My Father- reminds us why Bollywood still needs actors like him.

So daring and unafraid has been this actor that not once, twice but nearly 4 times in his career, has he played the badass villain.

Dishoom. Humraaz. Race. Gandhi My Father? Well, in his most brutally self-testing contest where he cut his wrist with some fine acting and tears, Akshaye was quite a loser, lunatic, dreamer, distraught and ultimately, the fallen.

Akshaye is no mind-expansion drug. Nor is he the cure to a heartache. He’s the remedy to a bad day through scintillating acting.

And even then, despite finding himself with dollops of incredible courage, going as far as ridiculing himself on screen in Akshay Kumar’s “Tees Maar Khan” as the melodramatic, baloney of an actor, the 44-year-old hasn’t yet made his mark. That’s the audiences’ perspective.

Akshaye, truth be told, is beyond the hype, if in case you were looking for an answer as to what he is. Not in any Bollywood league. But in a league of his own. Not summer or winter. But spring that awaits autumn and the autumn that disappears before winter can even look in. Not a star who drives luxury, wagons. Or ego-massages himself on social media posting snaps of who he partied with or went to bed with.

Rather a simpleton, a very walking on the grass, barefoot guy who sips fresh lime, blows a puff, likes Tea, meditates and is completely taken in by gardening. So long as scripts conveying needless loudness and cheap thrills continue to find him, he’ll be disappearing faster than a Ferrari F1 car. And wherever there’ll be softness, thoughtfulness and soul, above the heart, mind above matter- we’ll be sure to find our man who’s got a bit of a habit of vanishing. Now and again.