
New Delhi: Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia professionally known as Akshay Kumar is an India-born naturized Canadian actor.
He has dome more than 100 films and is best known for his stunts and amazing on-screen presence. The actor leaves no chance to impress his audience and is always in the headlines for one or the other reason.
These days the actor is busy promoting his upcoming movie ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ which is releasing in theatres on 3 June 2022.
Kumar in a recent interview gave a statement when asked “where our educators lacked”. The interviewee asked the director Chandra Prakash Dwivedi in hindi language – ” Why is it doctor sahab ki hum in cheezo ke baarei mei nhi jaante h, Kaha parr kami reh gayi the“.
To this the actor replied to this question and said “Because nobody is there to write it in that book, in our History book it should be written about. Aapne bhi nhi padhi hai. Aapke bachho ne nhi padhi h, I would like to appeal eduaction minister, main haath jod kar prathraa karna chata hu if we can change it. We can balance I’m not saying we should not know about Mughals but balanced it out“.
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#WATCH | Nobody is there to write about it in our history books. I would like to appeal to the Education Minister to look into this matter and see if we can balance it. We should know about Mughals but know about our kings also, they were great too: Actor Akshay Kumar to ANI pic.twitter.com/05WKtQ4dNw
— ANI (@ANI) June 1, 2022
‘Know about our kings too, our children would love to know about Maharana Pratap”
Further adding to his statement “Main inse itna kuch sunn chuka hu but unfortunately humare textbooks mei 2-3 line likhe hue history ki kitab mei, baaki saari cheeze likhe h invaders ke baare mei. Lekin humaare khud ke raja maharja ke baare mei 2-3 line likhe h“.
#WATCH | Unfortunately, our history textbooks only have 2-3 lines about Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan, but a lot has been mentioned about the invaders. There is hardly anything mentioned about our culture and our Maharajas: Actor Akshay Kumar to ANI pic.twitter.com/qnKacpylLv
— ANI (@ANI) June 1, 2022
Within a second of his interview, netizens started trolling him for his comments.
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