‘Naya Bharat’ can be made with Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan- Manoj Kumar

'I see an honesty in Salman and Akshay's work that cannot go unrewarded,' said Manoj 'Bharat' Kumar while talking about the Bollywood superstars. 

Veteran actor Manoj Kumar, who was fondly nicknamed Bharat Kumar, is elated to see Bollywood’s superstars Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan carrying forward the legacy which he started 45 years ago.

While Akshay is doing what Manoj, now 81, describes as the kind of cinema he believes in -- cinema that changes society, Salman is doing a film called "Bharat", the character that Manoj patented by playing the hero of that name in the 1970s' classics "Upkar", "Purab Aur Paschim" and "Roti Kapda Aur Makaan".