Akshay Kumar: I want Prime Minister Modi to see Baby as he is always concerned about terrorism

A 9am interview is ‘late’ for Akshay Kumar. The actor, speaking to us in what we thought was an ‘early’ meeting, expressed great surprise at people’s reactions to his 4am mornings. “I sometimes don’t understand why people here get so shocked,” he said, after mentioning that he’d scheduled shoots and meetings at 4:30am! But the discipline and rigour of his physical schedule shows in films like his forthcoming Baby, which he spoke to us about.An early interview like this is first-hand experience of your famously early mornings. We’ve heard you call meetings even at 6am. 4:30 — I’ve called meetings at 4:30am.READ: ​Akshay Kumar uses authentic weapons in BabyAnd people turn up for those? Of course, sab aate hain. I have done photo shoots etc at 4 or 4:30am. I sometimes don’t understand why people here get so shocked. I have never understood this idea. Agar aap dekho, abroad, people have woken up and at 6:30 in the morning, there are cars zooming on the roads, that means they have woken up at 5. Humare yahan 6am, ekdum khali sunsaan rehta hai sab, 9 baje traffic shuru hota hai. Why do we say, ‘Oh my God, 4 baje? 4:30 baje? 5 baje?’ Humare toh shastron mein likha hai ki 4 baje uthna chahiye. Humko toh so jaana chahiye jaldi. As boring as I might sound, but that’s what it is, the reality of life.It’s just that everybody’s lives, and not just in your industry, are inevitably about late mornings. I fail to understand… people say, 4:30 kya karenge yaar hum log, 4:30 toh hum sone jaate hain. I know a lot of people, 9:30-10 baje uthte hain. Kitni baar hota hai ki main subah (kaam pe) jaa raha hota hoon, and many actors wave at me on their way back (home). Woh tab sone jaa rahe hote hain.From Neeraj Pandey, the director of A Wednesday, people usually expect something different or some twist in his films. What is the unique thing about Baby?He is referring to something nobody has ever referred to before. You must have seen films on Armymen, Navy and Air Force before, the police, BSF and when they do something commendable, they are given medals, money, certificates, honours like Paramvir Chakras — they are all recognised. But have you ever thought of spies? They are not allowed to say that they are working for the government.