Prithviraj Sukumaran praised Akshay Kumar, and said that the star has a habit of underselling his own talents as an actor. He also said the actor is fantastic in Bade Miyan Chote Miyan.

Prithviraj Sukumaran has two major films releasing two weeks apart. (Images: Prithviraj Sukumaran/Facebook)

Actor Prithviraj Sukumaran said that he appreciates the praise that he got from his Bade Miyan Chote Miyan co-star Akshay Kumar, but also mentioned that the ‘Khiladi’ of Bollywood has a tendency to ‘undersell’ himself. In an interview, Prithviraj said that Akshay is an excellent actor himself, while Bade Miyan Chote Miyan director Ali Abbas Zafar described the big-budget action-comedy as a ‘three-hero film’ because of Prithviraj’s presence, as opposed to the two-hero movie that it has been described as in the press because of Akshay and Tiger Shroff.

Akshay had recently praised Prithviraj as a ‘better actor’ than himself at the film’s trailer launch event in Mumbai, and the Malayalam star was asked about these comments in a recent interview with Showsha. He said, “He was being very nice. I’m not embarrassed to accept compliments, I love compliments. I try to blush to look (humble) and sometimes I fail terribly. But Akshay is just being nice. He has this (habit) of really underselling himself when he’s in other people’s company. I remember he saw the trailer of Goat Life, and he went around the whole set and saying, ‘I think this will win the Oscar, if I had done this I would have won the Bhaskar’.”