Evolution of the Indian Patriotic Hero - Mournful Manoj to Action Akshay
Manoj Kumar and Akshay Kumar are similar in a several ways – it isn’t just that they adopted screen names with Kumar in them. Manoj Kumar’s real name is Harikrishna Giri Goswami and Akshay Kumar is actually Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia as many of us know. The two Indian leading men have done many movies with patriotic themes. If we know Manoj Kumar as Mr. Bharat, Akshay Kumar too has done many films where he has been a soldier, a commando or part of anti terror squads.
Akshay Kumar has done it all. He blasted his way through Bollywood’s disruptive action era of the ‘90s, portrayed brilliant comedic (yet heroic) everyman in the early 2000s and is now switching between scripts of socially relevant films that make people stop and think and not just because of the actor’s clout.
In 2018, during a
GQ shoot, the actor told us that he firmly believes that the reason he’s been able to retain his fans, over the course of this past decade, is by constantly reinventing himself.
“The only thing that attracts audiences is change, because it s intriguing. On my part, I keep myself alive by not settling for what s comfortable or easy,” he said.