Bollywood actor known as Rowdy Akshay Kumar and opposite to him Bhumi Pednekar's in the movie tittle 'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha' which inspired one of the most billionaire in the world Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates this year 2017. To end the year 2017 on a very high positive note, the 62-year-old, on Tuesday, put together a series of inspirational stories and tweets of things that happened in 2017.

Talking about the flick, Gates praised the fact it had educated audiences on the crisis, which sees one in 10 deaths in India linked to poor medicine. He said, "There's no denying that 2017 was a really tough year... but it also delivered some amazing moments of hope and progress." The movie deals with the menace of open defecation and is based on a real-life incident wherein a woman left her husband after finding out that there was no toilet in their house.

The flick is Akshay's eighth Rs100 crore grosser. The movie Toilet: Ek Prem Katha' focused on the cleaning problems faced by people in rural India. The film, which stars Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar, not only had a social message for the country but also emphasized on the need of having toilet facilities in India.