He is one man for whom fear knows no meaning. All that he knows is that he is a 'Player', under whose wings, even winning takes immense pride to be associated with.

He is none other than the 'Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi' Akshay Kumar, who celebrates his grand birthday today.

Akki (as he is affectionately called), in his own way, showed (read 'proved') to the world that 'one does not need a famous surname to make it really Big in Bollywood'!

Having stated his career as a cook on the foreign shores, Akshay is an epitome of the fact about 'What hard work can do to a person'.