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 One of Akshay’s secret plans is to play a super-hero for his son.
However Hrithik Roshan and Shah Rukh Khan have already gotten to the
super-hero roles in Krissh and (soon-to-be-shot) Ra.1, respectively.
Even Vivek Oberoi is playing a super-hero in ‘Prince, It’s Showtime’.
The idea is to play the role like never before. And Akshay is
working on it. Mainly because, Akshay’s son Aarav loves Akshay in
noble, and-or larger-than-life characters.
Akshay Kumar’s biggest fan is son Aarav who is already an expert
swimmer and has never been more excited about any of his dad’s films,
as he is about Blue, where Akshay spends most of his time underwater
looking for a treasure.
But this is a role with an extra punch, in ways more than one.
Akshay plays an out-and-out negative character, greedy, ruthless and
ready to go to any lengths to get what he wants.
Now even when the film is ready Akshay is eager to show Blue to his
son. Says a source, “Akshay knows Aarav will be kicked by the idea of
his dad playing a champion swimmer and that too named Aarav after his
son. In Aarav’s eyes Akshay is the true hero. When Akshay tells Aarav
pauranic stories Aarav always sees his dad as Rama or Arjun, valorous
and ready to conquer the world. To watch his dad play a man of dubious
morals and grey aspirations would be a new experience for Aarav.”
Akshay has earlier played a negative character in Khiladi 420. But
that was a double role with one of the twins turning evil. Besides
Aarav wasn’t born when it was released.
Says the Blue director Tony D’Souza, “It’s true, and Akshay plays a
man who thinks getting what he wants is more important than how you get
there. I wrote the character for Akshay. He was to be called Akshay
Malhotra. But then when I saw that Akshay had tattooed his son’s name
on his back, I decided to change the character’s name to Aarav.”
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