Akshay Kumar has been honored with a National Award for Best Actor for his role as Naval Commander Rustom Pavri in the 2016 crime thriller Rustom and also Airlift.
Inspired by the 1959 Nanavati case, this Akshay Kumar starrer was a critically acclaimed and equally successful film.
The megastar took to twitter to express gratitude and posted a video. He wrote, “Best Actor for Rustom, countless emotions, very hard to express my gratitude right now but I still tried, a big THANK YOU”.
#NationalFilmAwards : Best Actor for Rustom,countless emotions,very hard to express my gratitude right now but still tried,a big THANK YOU?? pic.twitter.com/Wo7mfi6dI8
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) April 7, 2017
Priyadarshan National award jury’s head revealed, “Akshay has won the Best Actor award for both Airlift and Rustom. For technical reasons only Rustom is mentioned in the list of awardees. But he has given contrasting and extremely sensitive performances in both Airlift and Rustom, and we thought it was only fair to honour him for both.”
Coming up for the incredible actor in 2017 is a series of standout films including Toilet – Ek Prem Katha, Padman, and the mega budget sci-fi film 2.0 with Rajnikanth.
