While Akshay Kumar has worked with a wide variety of actors, Subhash Kapoor’s ‘Jolly LLB 2’ will see him with a host of co-stars, who are either the alumni of the National School of Drama (NSD) or the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). Besides Annu Kapoor, who plays the senior legal counsel against whom the protagonist fights his biggest case, the film also features Saurabh Shukla, Kumud Mishra, Inaamulhaq, Sunil Palwal, Sayani Gupta and Ram Gopal Bajaj, the ex-director of NSD. And much to Akki’s delight, all these senior actors have appreciated his performance. Annu Kapoor, who has worked with Akshay previously too, says, “He is hard-working and committed. In fact, he is the only contemporary star I have worked with.”
Saurabh Shukla adds, “Akshay is observant and he inspired us. I remember, after I delivered a particularly long dialogue, he hugged me saying, `How do you manage to remember such a long dialogue? I’m so jealous of you’. That was very touching.” Kumud Mishra, who has previously worked with the star in ‘Airlift’, says, “Akshay is a thinking actor. He is very intuitive and he helps his co-actors improvise. He also has a different approach to every subject; ‘Jolly LLB 2’ has him perfectly balance humour and intensity. He has done fantastic work in comedy, but that genre is taken lightly.”
