Akshay Kumar: I did not find it difficult to portray a Parsi

Actor Akshay Kumar is portraying the role of a Parsi in Neeraj Pandey’s Rustom. The actor, who has a number of Parsi friends found it very easy to essay the role in the upcoming thriller. The ‘Khiladi’ is busy promoting the upcoming film on all major platforms and confessed during a media interaction that since he knew a number of people from the community, he did not find it difficult to enact the role.

The ‘Airlift’ actor said, “I have lots of friends who are Parsis. One of my best friends in school was a Parsi. My manager is also a Parsi. So I have a lot of Parsi friends and I know people from the community. Therefore, it wasn’t a difficult role to portray.”

He confessed that he had once tried his luck in Merchant Navy but fate had something else in store for him, therefore things did not work out. He added, “My father was in the Army, so there was one time when it would have been possible that I would have been in the Merchant Navy, but things did not work out… Something else was written in my destiny, so here I am in front you.”

‘Rustom’ is based on the sensational Nanavati case of 1959, where Indian Navy Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife’s lover. The film also stars Ileana D’Cruz, Esha Gupta, Arjan Bajwa and Pavan Malhotra, among others, and is all set to release on August 12.