Akshay Kumar is mighty big when it comes to the kind of investments he has. He was the only Indian actor on Forbes’ highest-paid actors in the world list. Akshay endorses over 20 top brands and had an annual earning of Rs 356 crore in 2020 as per Forbes. A report on gqindia.com talked about Akshay owning not one but seven side businesses that pool up to the income that he earns. We take reference from that story for our write up here.
Best Deal TV is a Hindi 24/7 home shopping television channel, owned by Akshay Kumar and Raj Kundra.
Akshay Kumar launched Hari Om Productions, based on his father’s name, with his mother, Aruna and wife Twinkle Khanna, in 2008. The label has bankrolled over 15 movies ranging from Singh Is Kinng to Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty, Airlift, Rustom and even Padman.
GOQii is a healthcare platform that was founded by former CEO & Founder of Indiagames. Although it is headquartered in California, it was made available in India in 2014 and has an office in Mumbai. Akshay Kumar invested in the start-up in 2019 as per a report by the Economic Times. He is among the company of other investors like Ratan Tata and Paytm founder, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, among others.
Grazing Goat Pictures is a film and TV production company owned by Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi. It was launched in 2011 and it’s first film was the National-award winning OMG – Oh My God! This company is involved in bankrolling a lot of regional films. So far it has produced 5 movies and one TV series called Jamai Raja.
Akshay Kumar announced that he would be launching his own Battle Royale game. He also noted that 20% of all profits made from the app would be donated to the Bharat Ke Veer trust.
Akshay Kumar is big on sports and physical activities in general. He has also often expressed his support in PM Narendra Modi’s vocal for local policy. So, it completely makes sense that the sports team the actor owns plays a game originated and mostly played only in India. It features players from Ludhiana and competed in the World Kabaddi League in 2014.
Akshay Kumar is known for being a great martial artist. In fact, he holds a black belt in Karate. To help spread this passion and also arm the country’s women with some much-needed self defense skills, Akshay Kumar, along with Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackrey Thackeray, inaugurated the Women’s Self Defense Centre (WSDC) in Andheri, Mumbai. This institution imparts lessons on self-defense to women of any age free of cost.
Wow!! This is huge investment, isn’t it?