Akshay Kumar filmography

Akshay Kumar is an Indian actor, television presenter, and film producer who works in Hindi-language films. He had a minor role in the 1987 Indian film Aaj.^[1][2] He debuted in a leading role with the film Saugandh (1991) before his breakthrough with Khiladi (1992), first film of the Khiladi series.^[3][4] In 1994, Kumar featured in 14 releases, including the successful Elaan, Mohra, Main Khiladi Tu Anari, Suhaag and the romantic drama Yeh Dillagi, which earned him a Filmfare Award for Best Actor nomination. He also found success with Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996) and Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), which earned him a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination.^[5] However, several other of his 1990s releases performed poorly at the box office, leading to a brief setback in his film career.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Kumar in 2012

The 1999 crime drama Jaanwar marked Kumar's comeback.^[6][11] His next films Hera Pheri (2000), Dhadkan (2000) and Ajnabee (2001) were well received. He played a negative role in the latter, winning the Filmfare Best Villain Award and then appeared in Andaaz (2003), Aitraaz (2004), Khakee (2004) and Aan: Men at Work (2004) and Waqt (2005).^[2][12] In this period, Kumar also proved himself as a great comic actor when he featured in financially successful comedies like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Garam Masala (2005), Bhagam Bhag (2006), Phir Hera Pheri (2006), Namastey London (2007), Heyy Babyy (2007), Welcome (2007), Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007), Singh Is Kinng (2008), Housefull (2010) and Tees Maar Khan (2010). He won the Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Garam Masala.^[13][2][12] In 2004, he presented the television series Seven Deadly Arts with Akshay Kumar.^[14][15] In 2008, he founded the Hari Om Entertainment production company,^[16] and hosted the reality shows Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi and MasterChef India in 2010. In 2011 he founded another production company Grazing Goat Pictures,^[17] and produced the Indo-Canadian hockey-based film Breakaway, which became the highest grossing cross-cultural film at the Canadian box office.^[18]

Kumar again conquered the domestic box office in 2012 with his hit masala film Rowdy Rathore, the comedies Housefull 2 and Khiladi 786, and the satire OMG – Oh My God! with the former two being his first films to enter 100 Crore Club.^[19][20] Shortly thereafter, he established a great box office pull with multiple diverse successful projects like the heist film Special 26 (2013), the action thrillers Holiday (2014) and Airlift (2016), the spy drama Baby (2015), the masala film Gabbar Is Back (2015), the comedies Singh Is Bliing (2015) and Housefull 3 (2016), the crime thriller Rustom (2016), the dramas Jolly LLB 2 (2017), Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017) and Padman (2018), the sports film Gold (2018) and the war film Kesari (2019); for Rustom, he won the National Film Award for Best Actor.^{[21][22][23][24]} He hosted Dare 2 Dance in 2014 and debuted in Tamil cinema with a negative role in the expensive sci-fi extravaganza 2.0 (2018) which is the fifth highest-grossing Indian film.^[25] In 2019 he delivered four consecutive 200 Crore Club films with Mission Mangal, Housefull 4, Good Newwz, and Kesari. This was followed by a steady career decline, with the exception of the action film Sooryavanshi (2021) and the sequel OMG 2 (2023).

Film

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

List of Akshay Kumar film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1987	Aaj	Karate instructor		[1]
1991	Saugandh	Shiva Kirplani		[26]
	Dancer	Raju		[27]
1992	Mr. Bond	Mr. Bond		[28]
	Khiladi	Raj Malhotra		[29]
	Deedar	Anand Malhotra		[30]
1993	Vishnu Vijaya	Vijay Roy	Bilingual film	[31][32]
	Ashaant
	Dil Ki Baazi	Vijay Kashyap		[33]
	Kayda Kanoon	Dawood Durani		[34]
	Waqt Hamara Hai	Vikas Kumar Sabkuchwala		[35]
	Sainik	Lieutenant. Suraj Dutt		[36]
1994	Elaan	Vishal Chaudhary		[37]
	Yeh Dillagi	Vijayendra "Vijay" Saigal		[38]
	Jai Kishen	Jai Verma / Kishen Verma[a]		[9][39]
	Mohra	Amar Saxena		[40]
	Main Khiladi Tu Anari	Karan Joglekar		[41][42]
	Ikke Pe Ikka	Rajiv		[43]
	Amaanat	Amar Kumar		[44]
	Suhaag	Raj Sinha		[45]
	Zakhmi Dil	Jaidev Anand		[46]
	Zaalim	Ravi Pratap		[47]
	Hum Hain Bemisaal	Vijay Sinha		[48]
1995	Paandav	Vijay Kumar		[49]
	Maidan-E-Jung	Karan Singh		[50]
	Nazar Ke Samne	Jai Kumar		[51]
	Sabse Bada Khiladi	Vijay "Lallu" Kumar		[52]
1996	Tu Chor Main Sipahi	Amar Verma		[53]
	Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi	Akshay Malhotra		[54]
	Sapoot	Prem Singhania		[55]
1997	Lahoo Ke Do Rang	Sikandar Davai		[56]
	Insaaf	Vikram "Vicky" Singh Jain		[57]
	Daava	Arjun Sarwar		[58]
	Tarazu	Ram Yadav		[59]
	Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi	Rajant "Raja" Kapoor (Mr. Khiladi)		[60][61]
	Dil To Pagal Hai	Ajay Sahni	Special appearance	[62]
	Aflatoon	Rocky / Raja[a]		[63][64]
1998	Keemat	Dev		[65][66]
	Angaaray	Amar Mehra		[67]
	Barood	Jai Sharma		[68]
1999	Aarzoo	Vijay Khanna		[69]
	International Khiladi	Devraj Anand		[70]
	Zulmi	Raj Malhotra		[71]
	Sangharsh	Aman Verma		[72]
	Jaanwar	Baadshah / Babu Lohaar		[73]
2000	Hera Pheri	Raju		[74][75]
	Dhadkan	Ram Verma		[76]
	Khiladi 420	Dev Kumar Malhotra / Anand Kumar Malhotra[a]		[77]
2001	Ajnabee	Vikram "Vicky" Bajaj		[78]
	Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love	Ajay Kapoor		[79]
2002	Aadhar	Jagdish's friend	Cameo; Marathi film	[80]
	Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya	Raj Malhotra		[81]
	Aankhen	Vishwas Prajapati		[82]
	Awara Paagal Deewana	Guru Gulab Khatri		[83]
	Jaani Dushman	Atul		[84]
2003	Talaash	Arjun Raichand		[85]
	Andaaz	Raj Malhotra		[86]
2004	Khakee	Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma		[87][88]
	Police Force	Vijay Singh		[89]
	Aan: Men at Work	DCP Hari Om Pattnaik		[90]
	Mujhse Shaadi Karogi	Arun "Sunny" Khanna		[91][92]
	Hatya	Ravi Lal		[93]
	Aitraaz	Raj Malhotra		[94]
	Meri Biwi Ka Jawaab Nahin	Ajay Khanna		[95]
	Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo	Rajeev Singh		[96]
2005	Insan	Amjad Khan		[97]
	Bewafaa	Raja Bhosle		[98]
	Waqt	Aditya Thakur		[99]
	Garam Masala	Makrand "Mac" Godbole		[100]
	Deewane Huye Paagal	Ranbir "Rocky" Hiranadani		[101]
	Dosti: Friends Forever	Raj Malhotra		[102]
2006	Family	Shekhar Bhatia		[103]
	Mere Jeevan Saathi	Vicky Bahl		[104]
	Humko Deewana Kar Gaye	Aditya Malhotra		[105]
	Phir Hera Pheri	Raju		[106]
	Jaan-E-Mann	Agastya Rao		[107]
	Bhagam Bhag	Bunty Rajkumar		[108]
2007	Namastey London	Arjun Singh		[109]
	Heyy Babyy	Aarush Mehra		[110]
	Bhool Bhulaiyaa	Aditya Shrivastava		[111]
	Om Shanti Om	Himself	Special appearance	[112]
	Welcome	Rajiv Saini		[113]
2008	Tashan	Bachchan Pandey		[114]
	Singh Is Kinng	Happy Singh		[115][116]
	Jumbo	Jaybir "Jumbo" Singh	Also narrator	[117]
2009	Chandni Chowk to China	Sidhu / Sidhesh Sharma		[118]
	8 x 10 Tasveer	Jai Puri / Jeet Puri[a]		[119]
	Kambakkht Ishq	Viraj Shergill		[120]
	Blue	Aarav Malhotra		[121]
	De Dana Dan	Nitin Bankar		[122]
2010	Housefull	Aarush Awasthi		[123]
	Khatta Meetha	Sachin Tichkule		[124]
	Action Replayy	Kishen Kumar Chopra		[125]
	Tees Maar Khan	Tabrez Mirza Khan / Tees Maar Khan		[126]
2011	Patiala House	Parghat Singh "Gattu" Kahlon		[127]
	Thank You	Kishen Khurana		[128]
	Breakaway	Himself	Special appearance	[129]
	Desi Boyz	Jignesh "Jerry" Patel / Rocco		[130]
	Chalo Dilli	Lt. Col. Vikram Singh Rana	Cameo	[131]
2012	Housefull 2	Sunny Pujari / Sunil		[132]
	Rowdy Rathore	Shiva / ASP Vikram Singh Rathore[a]		[133][134]
	Joker	Rajkumar Joker Sattu / Agastya Sattu		[135][136]
	OMG – Oh My God!	God Krishna Vasudev Yadav		[20][137]
	Khiladi 786	Bahattar Singh / Tehattar Singh[a]		[138]
2013	Bhaji in Problem	Himself	Special appearance; Punjabi film	[139]
	Special 26	Ajay Singh Vardhan		[140]
	Once Upon A Time in Mumbai Dobaara!	Shoaib Khan		[141]
	Boss	Suryakant "Surya" Shastri / Boss		[142]
	Bombay Talkies	Himself	Special appearance in the song "Apna Bombay Talkies"	[143]
2014	Holiday	Captain Virat Bakshi		[144][145]
	Fugly	Himself	Special appearance in the song "Fugly Fugly Kya Hai"	[146]
	Entertainment	Akhil Johri		[147]
	The Shaukeens	Himself / Rajiv Bhatia		[148]
2015	Baby	Ajay Singh Rajput		[149]
	Hey Bro	Himself	Special appearance in the song "Birju"	[150]
	Gabbar Is Back	Professor Aditya "Gabbar" Singh Rajput		[151]
	Brothers	David Fernandes		[152]
	Singh Is Bling	Raftaar Singh		[153]
2016	Airlift	Ranjit Katyal		[154]
	Housefull 3	Sanket "Sandy" Sehgal / Sundy		[155]
	Dishoom	Sameer Gazi	Cameo	[156]
	Rustom	Rustom Pavri		[157]
2017	Jolly LLB 2	Advocate Jagdishwar "Jolly" Mishra		[158]
	Naam Shabana	Ajay Singh Rajput	Special appearance	[159]
	Toilet: Ek Prem Katha	Keshav Sharma		[160]
2018	Pad Man	Lakshmi Kant Chauhan		[161]
	Gold	Tapan Das		[162]
	2.0	Pakshi Rajan	Tamil film	[163]
	Simmba	DCP Veer "Surya" Sooryavanshi	Cameo	[164]
2019	Kesari	Havildar Ishar Singh		[165]
	Blank	Himself	Special appearance in the song "Ali Ali"	[166]
	Mission Mangal	Rakesh Dhawan		[167]
	Housefull 4	Harry Sinha / Bala Dev Singh[a]		[168]
	Good Newwz	Varun Batra		[169]
2020	Laxmii	Asif Ahmed / Laxmii Sharma		[170]
2021	Bell Bottom	Anshul Malhotra / Bell Bottom		[171]
	Sooryavanshi	DCP Veer Sooryavanshi "Surya"		[172][173]
	Atrangi Re	Sajjad Ali Khan		[174][175]
2022	Bachchhan Paandey	Bachchan Pandey		[176][177]
	Samrat Prithviraj	Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan		[178]
	Raksha Bandhan	Lala Kedarnath Agarwal		[179]
	Cuttputlli	SI Arjan Sethi		[180]
	Ram Setu	Aryan Kulshrestha		[181]
	An Action Hero	Himself	Cameo	[182]
2023	Selfiee	Vijay Kumar		[183]
	OMG 2	Lord Shiva		[184]
	Mission Raniganj	Jaswant Singh Gill		[185]
2024	Bade Miyan Chote Miyan	Captain Firoz "Freddy"		[186]
	Sarfira	Vir Mhatre		[187][188]
	Khel Khel Mein	Rishabh Malik		[189]
	Stree 2	Sarkata's descendant	Cameo	[190]
	Singham Again	DCP Veer Sooryavanshi "Surya"		[191]
2025	Sky Force	Wing Commander Kumar Om Ahuja		[192]
	Kesari Chapter 2	C. Sankaran Nair		[193]
	Housefull 5 †	TBA	Post-production	[194]
	Kannappa †	Shiva	Telugu film; Cameo	[195]
	Jolly LLB 3 †	Advocate Jagdishwar "Jolly" Mishra	Post-production	[196]
2026	Bhooth Bangla †	TBA	Filming	[197]
TBA	Welcome to the Jungle †	TBA	Filming	[198]
	Hera Pheri 3 †	Raju	Pre-production	[199][citation needed]
	Vedat Marathe Veer Daudle Saat †	Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj	Marathi, Hindi film	[200]

Television

List of Akshay Kumar television credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2004	Seven Deadly Arts with Akshay Kumar	Host		[14]
2008–2009, 2011	Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi	Host	Season 1, 2, 4	[201][202]
2010	MasterChef India	Host	Season 1	[203]
2012		Himself	Season 2; Special appearance
2013	Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah		Special appearance	[204]
2014–2017	Jamai Raja	Producer		[205]
2014	Dare 2 Dance	Host		[206]
2017	The Great Indian Laughter Challenge	Judge		[207]
2019	Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 9	Himself	Guest	[208]
2020	Into The Wild With Bear Grylls			[209]

Music videos

List of Akshay Kumar music video credits

Year	Title	Role	Singer	Ref.
2019	Filhall	Dr. Kabir Malhotra	B Praak	[210]
2020	Muskurayega India	Himself	Vishal Mishra	[211]
2021	Filhaal 2: Mohabbat	Dr. Kabir Malhotra	B Praak	[212]
2023	Kya Loge Tum	Unnamed		[213]
2024	Shambhu	Unnamed	Akshay Kumar, Sudhir Yaduvanshi, Vikram Montrose	[214]

Notes

1. Kumar played two characters.