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Akshay Kumar proving why he is 'Bollywood's poster boy of patriotism'

Updated on: 07 October,2016 07:00 AM IST  | 
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Even as India-Pakistan tension escalates, Bollywood star Akshay Kumar comes out in support of the Indian Army and shames politicians for politicising the surgical strikes. And Twitterati salutes him

Akshay Kumar proving why he is 'Bollywood's poster boy of patriotism'

Akshay Kumar proving why he is 'Bollywood's poster boy of patriotism'

Akshay Kumar is proving why he is
Akshay Kumar is proving why he is 'Bollywood's poster boy of patriotism' -- on-screen and off-screen too.


Star Akshay Kumar is the 'new-age poster boy of patriotism' in Bollywood. His recent movies like 'Baby', 'Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty', 'Gabbar is Back', 'Rustom' and 'Airlift' tug at our hearts and evoke the nationalistic fervour.


But that's not all. He has been dubbed the 'the new age 'Bharat' Manoj Kumar' and he justified the sobriquet on Thursday.


Akshay shared a video of himself on social media in which he slammed politicians and others for debating the ban on Pakistani artistes at a time when soldiers have been killed in a terror attack. 

The 49-year-old 'Rustom' star, whose father was an army officer, also flayed people for questioning the veracity of the Indian army's surgical strikes on terror launch pads in PoK.

"Something which has been on my mind since the past few days and I just had to say it. Not intending to offend anyone... so here goes," the actor wrote on social media accounts alongside the video.

"I am not speaking to you as a celebrity today. I am speaking to you as the son of an army man. For the past few days, I have been seeing and reading that people are arguing and some are asking for proof about surgical strikes, some are demanding ban on artistes, while some fear that there might be a war," Akshay said in the video.

"Arey sharam karo (have shame). These debates can happen later. First one must realise that people have already laid down their lives at the border. Nineteen jawans died during the attack and a 24-year-old jawan Nitin Yadav died in Baramulla," he said. The actor termed the current demand for ban on Pakistani artistes as trivial saying the families who lost their loved ones at the border don't really care about these debates. 

"Are their families, or the families of our thousands of jawans, worried whether a film will release or not? Whether an artiste will be banned? No. They are worried about their future. 

"And our concern should be to ensure that their present and future is better. I am, because they are. You are, because they are and if they are not there, then India won't exist. Jai Hind."

For Akshay helps us focus on what's important: the lives and wellbeing of our soldiers and their families.

And Twitterverse agreed whole-heartedly with the star.

HERE'S HOW THE TWITTERATI REACTED:

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