Not just the success of his latest movie, Gold, but Akshay Kumar has yet another reason to celebrate. Akshay has become the first Bollywood male actor to have crossed the 20 million mark on Instagram. He took to the social media site to share a pic of him and captioned it as: "Here’s another #Gold from the good people at @Instagram. Glad to share, the first Bollywood Actor (Male) to cross the 20 million followers milestone is yours truly. Thank you all once again for the love. Sending lots of love and prayers your way".

Ins't that awesome? While Akshay has bagged to award from Instagram now, Deepika Padukone crossed the 20 million mark almost a year ago. She has a fan following of 25.8 million as of now. Apart from Akshay, some other male actors who have a popular fan following on Instagram are Shah Rukh Khan with 13.9 million followers, Amitabh Bachchan with 9.8 million followers and Salman Khan with over 17.8 million followers.

Check out Akshay Kumar's post below-

In other news, the actor recently confirmed that he will be a part of Hera Pheri 3. While promoting his film Gold in Delhi, Akshay was asked by the media about the kinds of films that we will see him in the future. He replied saying, "Ek kisam ki filmein nahi, sirf social filmein nahi balki Housefull 4 kar raha hoon, Hera Pheri 3 bhi kar raha hoon. Toh aise bahut saari filmein hai."

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