The actor flew to a small temple in Baramati to fulfill his promise last Saturday

Whenever, wherever Akshay Kumar is shooting especially in the unexplored interiors, he seeks out places of worship to visit and find solace. Be it a small Gurdwara tucked away in the bylanes of Amristar, or a Mata temple on a hill in Manali... Akshay will climb that extra mile, trek that extra vertical distance to get there.

It was so in Baramati too, where Akshay shot for several months this year for the new Priyadarshan film Khatta Meetha. In Baramati, he discovered a small temple in a far-off place that he immediately felt a connection with, and began to frequent that temple every day.

Says a source from the unit, "Without telling anyone, he'd disappear early in the morning, or any time of the day. Soon we found out where he was going. What we didn't know was that he had taken a mannat that he'd return to the temple when Khatta Meetha was ready for release."

So early Saturday morning, just before he was slated to fly to Manali to shoot a song with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for Vipul Shah's Action Replayy, Akshay quietly chartered a flight for Baramati to fulfill his mannat at the temple.

While the actor refused to comment, saying religion was a very personal matter, a source close to him said, "Akshay takes matters connected to God very seriously. He wouldn't leave for Manali to shoot until he had fulfilled his mannat in that temple in Baramati."