Happy Birthday Akshay Kumar: 7 times the actor was real-life Khiladi on his film sets

In the 2015 film 'Singh Is Bliing', Akshay essayed the role of Raftaar Singh,who is seen offering charity to devotees in Gurudwara by polishing their shoes. Apparently, after filming the sequence, the actor took some time off and continued with the charity work, as he had wanted to do it for a long time

For his role of Ranjit Katyal in the film 'Airlift', the khiladi learned Arabic, as his character was based on real life Mr. Mathunny Mathews, famously known by the name Toyota Sunny

Akshay Kumar as Jagdish Mishra aka Jolly in the film 'Jolly LLB 2', completed the filming of his character’s scenes in the entire film in a record 30 days

In a scene in 'Sabse Bada Khiladi', Akshay's character Lallu had to jump from a helicopter on a car. For the scene, the khiladi refused to have any stunt double, and did the stunt himself. He has performed many such dangerous stunts in several other films because of which he is also called the 'Indian Jackie Chan'

In the the film 'Singh is Bliing', the scene in which he fights a lion, is not any VFX, but actually a real lion. That particular scene was shot exclusively in South Africa

Akshay Kumar claims that his role as David Fernandes in the 2015 film 'Brothers', was the most tough role he has played in his career till date. In preparation for his role, he lost around 10 to 15 kg weight to match the aged look in the film

In preparation of his character as Shiva aka IPS Vikram Singh Rathore, the actor learned a special combat karate technique