Akshay Kumar: Need to keep on changing, don't want anyone to put an image on me

The man is being hailed for his socially relevant films. Akshay Kumar, who has radically moved away from the typical masala potboilers in the recent past, says he deliberatelywants toshift between genres to avoid getting stereotyped. His last two releases- Toilet: Ek Prem Kathaand Padman, have been applauded for talking about issues that are taboo in the Indian society.

"I need to keep on changing. I don't want anyone to put an image on me. I have gone through that in early days of my career when only action image was associated with me. I wanted to do other things, but I couldn't do it. So I always try to do different things (now)," Akshay said in a media interaction in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The national award-winning actor said his next is a war film.

"It is not that I will do only this kind of film. I am doing a war film called Kesari, it is for the first time that I am doing a war film, it is new for me. So I am very excited about it.

Would he want to stick to this genre? "I have no idea,"said the actor and added "I want to do a Housefullnow. I am waiting to start Housefull, it is going to be a three-month vacation," he said about the hit comedy franchise.

There have been reports that Akshay is in talks with Ekta Kapoor for a film which is an adaptation of the book I Too Had A Dream based on the life of Dr Verghese Kurien, the man who brought about the milk revolution in the country.

This film will was apparently to be directed by Shree Narayan Singh of Toilet: Ek Prem Kathafame.

When asked whether he was involved with the project, the actor said, "I don't know."

(With agency inputs)