Evergreen star Akshay Kumar won
the Best Actor Award at the 64th National Film Awards for the film Rustom. There
was a small controversy surrounding the win as many people started blaming
filmmaker Priyadarshan who is a close friend of Akshay, to favour the actor as
he was a part of the National Film Awards' jury.
Akshay finally retorted to the allegations in an interview
with a famous daily and told, "I have completed 25 years in the film
industry and I've never called in a favour to bag a movie or an award. As for Priyan favouring
me, I think he has answered that question in your newspaper."
In an interview with the same daily, Priyadarshan had told,
"Akshay Kumar deserved the award and we gave it to him. There were a
total of 38 jury members with me on this. How can you question the decision of
so many people? Ramesh Sippy headed the jury last year. When he gave Best Actor
to Amitabh Bachchan for Piku why didn't anyone question him?"
On winning the national award, Akshay told, "I'm very
happy. I consider it the blessings of my parents and the good wishes of my
family. Mrs. Funnybones (wife Twinkle Khanna) who always teased me on not
getting any awards is happy and my happiness lies in making her happy."
In the meantime, Akshay is currently shooting for R. Balki's PadMan which
also stars Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor. He will next be seen in Toilet:
Ek Prem Katha which is slated to release on August 11, 2017.
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