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Akshay Kumar’s role as Hindutva’s poster boy

- BHAVYA DORE

AKSHAY KUMAR LOVES INDIA. He really does. He has said so in his movies, in his advertisements and in his tweets.

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country to its knees, and the actor was grounded. The final round of promotions for his film Sooryavanshi had to be cancelled since the Maharashtra government started telling people not to leave their homes. The release of the cop drama, the latest in the filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s oeuvre, was postponed indefinitely.