"You learn a lot. I sometimes feel a newcomer should do five films there and then come here. He or she will learn a lot. In a day, they take 30-40 shots. Here we manage around 12-13 shots... They don't take other people for granted. They value other people's time," he said. The actor says he was bowled over by the humility of megastar Rajinikanth when he first met him.

"We used to talk in Marathi. He is a Maharashtrian and I also know the language. He is a great man. It's amazing how you give him one dialogue and he changes it into an epic dialogue. He puts entertainment in every line," he said. Recently, Rajinikanth had said that 2.0 will belong to Akshay but the Padman star consider himself to be the Amrish Puri of the action-fantasy genre.

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"He (Rajinikanth) is just being humble. It's very much his film because the title is 2.0. I can't be that. He is 2.0. he is just being kind and nice to me. I respect him for that. It's very much his film. I am the Amrish Puri of the film," he quipped.

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