Sabbir Khan not worried by Kumar's flops

Sabbir Khan has claimed that Kambakkht Ishq will not be affected by Akshay Kumar's recent box office flops.

The debutant director argued that audiences will judge the film on its merits, not on past performance.

Khan told IANS: "[The] failures of Akshay's movies don't affect me at all because a movie is a movie... and as a director, you just want to know whether the audiences want to see it or not.

"Everybody goes through ups and downs. An actor's last success doesn't mean anything for a director... That way we wouldn't have had any more movies of Amitabh Bachchan or Shah Rukh Khan or Tom Cruise."

Kumar's last two releases - Chandni Chowk To China and 8X10 Tasveer - both performed poorly at the box office.

Kambakkht Ishq, which is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, will be released on July 3.