Akshay Kumar: For me, the love of my audience is more important than business

Akshay Kumar is not into the business aspect of films anymore but wants to focus more on content and the character. Looks like Akki has made enough money with all his back-to-back hits like Rustom, Housefull 3, Airift and Singh is Bling.

Akshay Kumar got really dazed during the press conference for the success party of ‘Jolly LLB 2’ and said, “For me, the love of my audience is more important than the business. I think I have earned enough money. It is also important to get the right script, character, director and studio. It was my first experience with them and I would want to do more films for them.”

When asked about the hustle during movie promotions, the star added, “I have never dealt with lawyers, as I never got into in any legal trouble. Subhash Kapoor (director) explained to me everything because he was a political journalist before turning a director. So, he had covered cases and knew how it works. I have never been inside a court.”

Even after gaining back-to-back hits, the 49-year-old star doesn’t think he understands the mindset of the audience. He adds, “I don’t think I have managed to catch audience’s pulse… it is just a phase and your hard work pays off eventually. Many people make good films but they don’t do well. But they always think that they are making ‘Mughal-e Azam’ or ‘Pakeezaah’. But it does not happen… some films work, sometimes it doesn’t.” 

When asked about his latest film, Jolly LLB 2’s success Akshay Kumar said, “Appreciating the work of his co-stars Saurabh Shukla and Annu Kapoor, Akshay says the sequel has done well primarily because of the team work. I think what has helped this film is team work and screenplay. Saurabh Shukla, Annu Kapoor, they are the biggest pillars of the film. Huma Qureshi and Sayani Gupta have also done a wonderful job. I got to learn many things from Saurabh and Annu Ji. I always used to crack this joke on the sets that Subhash has got six actors from NSD and four actors from FTII and I am the only one who is from Khalsa College.”

After so many hits Akshay Kumar sure seems to be sorted with his career!