Flashback Friday: Revisiting The Infamous Feud Of Akshay Kumar & Yash Chopra

Akshay Kumar is one of the biggest self-made stars of Bollywood. In his 3 decades-old career, he did many small films, went through many ups and downs but still managed to hold his forte strong.

Today’s Flashback Friday makes us want to share an interesting anecdote from Akshay’s struggle days. The story also proves that if you take every setback in your life as a challenge, it will become a way towards success for you.

The story goes back to the time when Legendary director Yash Chopra was planning to make Dil To Paagal Hai. According to a Bollywood Thikana report, the filmmaker was planning to cast Jackie Shroff as the second lead along with Shah Rukh Khan. However, later he thought to cast a young actor and that’s how Akshay Kumar came on board.

The shooting of DTPH was almost complete but Akshay’s films were not working well at the Box Office. This brought Yash Chopra under a lot of pressure as people were suggesting him to drop Akshay. Since the shoot was almost complete, he couldn’t have done that.