Akshay Kumar has shown that there can be solidarity in Bollywood. His gesture will be remembered: PadMan producer

On Friday evening, Akshay Kumar, together with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, announced the postponement of PadMan, so that Bhansali’s Padmaavat can get a solo release.

“Akshay’s entire team is with him on this decision,” his co-producer Prernaa Arora of Kriarj Films said.

“What Akshay sir did on Friday evening is unheard of. Just a week before our film’s release, without any prior intimation, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, a legend in his own right, came to Akshay requesting that we postpone PadMan,” she said.

“It takes a lot of humility for a man of Bhansali’s stature to come forward with such a request. It takes an equally great artiste to agree to such a startling request,” Arora said.

“It was a very unusual request considering we were days away from release. But Akshay agreed immediately. It says a lot about his generous heart,” she added.

Prernaa also scoffs at filmmakers and producers who deliberately pitch their films against one another.

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