Mumbai: Bollywood’s ‘Khiladi Kumar’ i.e. superstar Akshay Kumar is often in the headlines for his Canadian citizenship along with his films. Akshay, who loots accolades from his characters in films, often has to face criticism on this issue. But, now Akshay is going to be the complete of India. He is going to do this for a film but in reality.
Akshay Kumar is promoting his film ‘Selfie’ these days. During the promotion of the film, he raised the issue for which he is criticized the most. The actor has clearly said that India is everything to him and hence he will give up his Canadian citizenship.
‘It feels bad when people taunt’
Recently he talked about his Canadian citizenship in a channeled interview. He said that whenever people taunt him for being Canadian, he feels very bad. He admitted in the conversation, ‘India is everything for me. Whatever I have earned, I have earned by staying here and I consider myself lucky that I have got a chance to return it. I feel bad when people question my citizenship. He doesn’t know anything about anything. Just make things up.
How to get Canadian citizenship
Talking about his Canadian citizenship, he further said, there was a period from 1990 to 2000, where he did many films, but kept flopping at the box office. Akshay further told that during this time I applied for Canadian citizenship. At that time he got Canadian citizenship.
Friend sent back and then I didn’t stop
I thought brother, my films are not doing and I have to keep working. I went to work in Canada. A friend of mine was in Canada. He told me to come here and during this time I applied for Canadian citizenship. I had only two films left that were yet to release and it was my good fortune that both the remaining films became my superhits. My friend said that now you go back. Start working again. I got a few more films and haven’t stopped since then. went on working.
