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Veteran actor Manoj Kumar, nicknamed Bharat Kumar, is very happy to see of two of today’s superstars Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan carrying forward the work that he started 45 years ago.
While Akshay is doing what Manoj, now 81, describes as the kind of cinema he believes in cinema that changes society, Salman is doing a film called Bharat, the character that Manoj patented by playing the hero of that name in the 1970s’ classics Upkar, Purab Aur Paschim and Roti Kapda Aur Makaan.
The veteran actor shrugs off the compliments.
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“It’s not as if I had any copyright claims over the name Bharat. Anyone and everyone is Bharat. I am happy that superstars like Salman and Akshay are playing heroes who can bring about a social awakening, a new dawn, naya Bharat,” Manoj said.