Can't let Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar play Shaktimaan, says actor Mukesh Khanna

Highlights

• Actor Mukesh Khanna, who became popular after playing superhero in Shaktimaan, is coming up with a 75-minute telefilm titled Hamaara Hero Shaktimaan, in which he plays Shaktimaan again. He says only he can play 'Shaktimaan'.
• "I can't make Akshay Kumar Shaktimaan, I can't let Ajay Devgn play Shaktimaan. They are good actors. I can't even let Shah Rukh Khan play Shaktimaan because they don't have the image that I have," the 54-year-old said.
• "So I have to do this (play Shaktimaan) and I would say that I have that audacity to play Shaktimaan again because there was nobody before Mukesh Khanna," he added.
• Produced by Mukesh and directed by Dinkar Jani, Shaktimaan originally aired on Doordarshan and was super successful.
• Shaktimaan is said to be India's first superhero.
• In the last few years Bollywood too churned out superhero films like Ra. One, Krrish and the forthcoming Krrish 3, but for Mukesh, they are not superheroes.
• "Krrish is not a superhero. He has just saved his father, now he can become a superhero when he is saving the whole world (in Krrish 3). Ra. One is definitely not a superhero," Khanna said and added: "I am sorry, maybe Shah Rukh might feel bad, but Ra. One is not a superhero."
• He added: "You can call Ra.One, Terminator, a good film on special effects. But sorry to say Ra.One is not a superhero."