{"id":356501,"date":"2023-08-15T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/akshay-kumar-gets-indian-citizenship-on-independence-day-see-pic\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:39:00","slug":"akshay-kumar-gets-indian-citizenship-on-independence-day-see-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/akshay-kumar-gets-indian-citizenship-on-independence-day-see-pic\/","title":{"rendered":"Akshay Kumar Gets Indian Citizenship On Independence Day. See Pic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Akshay Kumar Gets Indian Citizenship On Independence Day. See Pic\" alt=\"Akshay Kumar Gets Indian Citizenship On Independence Day. See Pic\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/ijujd41g_akshay-kumar_625x300_22_November_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Akshay Kumar Indian Citizenship: Akshay Kumar was earlier a Canadian citizen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Actor Akshay Kumar, who often faced criticism over his Canadian citizenship, has been granted Indian citizenship on the 77th Independence Day of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dil aur citizenship, dono Hindustani. Happy Independence Day! Jai Hind!,&#8221; Akshay Kumar said on X, formerly known as Twitter, sharing the registration document.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dil aur citizenship, dono Hindustani.<br \/>Happy Independence Day!<br \/>Jai Hind! &#x1f1ee;&#x1f1f3; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DLH0DtbGxk\">pic.twitter.com\/DLH0DtbGxk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akshaykumar\/status\/1691338023185809409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Akshay Kumar had earlier said that he felt disappointed when people questioned his &#8220;love for the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India is everything to me&#8230; Whatever I have earned, whatever I have gained is from here. And I&#8217;m fortunate that I get a chance to give back. You feel bad when people say things without knowing anything&#8230;,&#8221; Mr Kumar had said in an interview with news channel Aajtak.<\/p>\n<p>He had applied for the Indian citizenship in 2019, however, the process had been delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kumar&#8217;s Canadian citizenship became a topic of debate after an interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never thought that I should get this passport changed but now yes, I have applied to get my passport changed and once I get the renounced status from canada&#8230;.&#8221; he had said.<\/p>\n<p>On work front, Akshay Kumar&#8217;s &#8220;OMG&#8221; 2, which also stars Pankaj Tripathi and Yami Gautam, released in theatres last week.<\/p>\n<p><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Caught On Camera: Telangana Woman Fights Suspected Robber, Scares him Away\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Caught On Camera: Telangana Woman Fights Suspected Robber, Scares him Away\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Caught On Camera: Telangana Woman Fights Suspected Robber, Scares him Away\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/ijujd41g_akshay-kumar_625x300_22_November_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-08-15T13:43:04+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=717471&amp;category=embed&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=0&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/CCTVFootage_132848_66245_2500.mp4\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont externalVideo fvotd\">\n<h3 class=\"s-ttl\">Featured Video Of The Day<\/h3>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"lozad\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-08\/dsj4hi24_cctv-footage_640x480_14_August_23.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=717471&amp;category=embed&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=0&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Caught On Camera: Telangana Woman Fights Suspected Robber, Scares him Away<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/akshay-kumar-indian-citizenship-dil-citizenship-dono-hindustani-actor-akshay-kumar-gets-indian-passport-4299439\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Akshay Kumar Indian Citizenship: Akshay Kumar was earlier a Canadian citizen. New Delhi: Actor Akshay Kumar, who often faced criticism over his Canadian citizenship, has been granted Indian citizenship on the 77th Independence Day of the country. &#8220;Dil aur citizenship, dono Hindustani. Happy Independence Day! Jai Hind!,&#8221; Akshay Kumar said on X, formerly known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6959,423733,423734,31454,118372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}