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Akshay shares gratitude for success of ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’

Superstar Akshay Kumar recently got emotional thanking fans, the film industry and others in a video following the success of ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’

Kumar’s tremendous run at the box office, which has been going on since late 2015, continues with the new release.

Already crossing more than Rs. 60 crores in merely four days, the film is all set to enter the 100-crore club soon, considering the largely positive response from critics as well as audiences, reports Asian Age.

Kumar’s wife, former actress, writer and producer Twinkle Khanna’s tweet on the success of ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’ relieving ‘constipation’ at the box office was termed as a ‘dig’ against the recent failures of Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan’s ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ (2017) and ‘Tubelight’ (2017) respectively.

In the video Kumar says that before he took on the project, irrespective of its success he wanted that the issue of open defecation be discussed in every household. Citing a report from eight months ago that 54 per cent of Indian indulge in open defecation, he expressed his delight that the number had come to down to 34 per cent and he was hopeful that it can touch 0 per cent soon.

He also stressed that he was not going to stop talking about the issue post the release and success of the film and his fight would be on throughout.

He goes on thank every critic, who might have said three negative points about the film but also highlighted a positive point, every government which has worked towards eradication of open defecation, and even people, who called him out for doing government propaganda through the film.

He also thanked his friend and neighbour Hrithik Roshan by saying that the people who have watched the film know why he’s doing so and that it would be a surprise for people who hadn’t watched the movie.

He then went on to thank the film fraternity for their support, but he also gets emotional towards the end of the video thanking his fans for gifting him this happiness on the occasion of Independence Day.

‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’ is in cinemas now.

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