I say this as someone who finds Twinkle Khanna annoying and overbearing; No! This is has nothing to do with her. Twinkle was always outspoken and presented herself as very progressive and a feminist whose opinions didn’t always align with the BJP. She’s been like this for the past ten years or so at least. Even during Akshay’s good run pre-pandemic. That seemed to be their schtick vis a vie public images. He’s a traditionalist Modi supporter and she’s a left wing liberal. And it worked for them.
The reason his movies are flopping can be a combination of many factors.
-The pandemic has changed everyone’s willingness to spend money in theaters willy nilly. His movies are primarily the type that can easily be watched on OTT.
-He basically proved that he has no passion for his work or even for history when he bragged about finishing Prithviraj in 43 days. That movie’s marketing just couldn’t recover from that comment.
-His lies about his Canadian citizenship really hurt him. He decided to lie and say it was an honorary thing. He kept lying until he ran out of options and then came up with the “I thought I would have to move there” 🙄. Doing what? Acting in Canadian films?
-His movies got repetitive and frequent. Theaters were over saturated with Akshay movies. It would be one thing to watch an actor’s new movie every few months if he had done something different every time. But he didn’t. It was mostly the same social message or a patriotic message or both. People got bored of him.
-And this may not be as pressing but the fact that his costars keep getting younger doesn’t help him either. He’s starting to look like a creepy uncle since his age is catching up with him. I mean the dude actually did a music video with Nupur Sanon.
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