Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar is a Bollywood actor whose career began in 1991 and who has appeared in such films as Khiladi and Namastey London. He has done many comedy movies as well such as Hera-Pheri and Hey Baby. He is also popular for his stunts. During his years in Bollywood, Kumar was romantically linked with several of his co-star actresses like Pooja Batra, Raveena Tandon, and Shilpa Shetty. After being engaged twice to actress Twinkle Khanna, the daughter of veteran actors Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, he finally married her on January 14, 2001. Their son named Aarav was born on September 15, 2002.

In 2007, a leading Mumbai tabloid newspaper printed a story saying that Kumar and his wife had fallen out and Kumar had moved out of his home, staying at a hotel instead.[27] On July 26, 2007 the couple sent a legal notice to the tabloid, declaring that the rumour was false.

Akshay Kumar was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India. His father worked for the government. He spent much of his youth in Delhi before moving to Mumbai.

He studied martial arts in Bangkok and came back to India where he started modeling. However, he soon found his way into films and began to appear in a number of action films during the 1990s.

After 2000 he started to take on more varied roles, and in 2007 he scored a major success with four big box office hits.

He has been married to actress Twinkle Khanna since 2001.

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• September 9, 1967: Born

• 1992: Khiladi

• 1994: Mohra

• 1997: Dil To Pagal Hai

• 2000: Hera Pheri

• 2004: Khakee

• 2007: Namastey London

• 2007: Welcome