Akshay Kumar has taken as many as 15 of his family members with him for his KKK4 shoot in South Africa

Akshay Kumar is mixing business and pleasure as he shoots for Khatron Ke Khiladi 4 in South Africa.

He is vacationing with his grandmother, mother, wife Twinkle, son Aarav, his sister-in-law Rinke (who's styling him for the show), a niece and nephew and other members of his extended family.

That makes it an entourage of 15 family members! Says a source, "Akshay loves the fact that he can combine work and play.

The family is pretty excited about seeing him perform incredible stunts in Cape Town and are always found on the sets cheering him and the other KKK contestants."

The source adds, "Akshay's mother seems to be very impressed by her son's stunts. She looked really proud when she visited the sets of KKK Torchaar and saw her sher-puttar in action!"

The star and his folks are expected to return to Mumbai in the next three days. When asked on whose expense the Khiladi's family was vacationing, the channel refused to comment.

Not the first time...

...that Akshay Kumar has spent time with his family while on a work schedule. He would commute every day from his shoot in Oxford, UK to the country's capital, London to be with family. ('His Daily Commute'; March 24, 2011, HiTLIST). But in SA, it's his entire khandaan.

Me, Too

Govinda attended an awards event in Bangkok a couple of years back and had his entire family wife, son, daughter, nieces, nephews, cousins, so on and so forth tag along. That wasn't all. He insisted that his entire family be put up in the same hotel that he was.

His justification? "My group included my wife, my kids, my make-up man, my spot boy. If I had to take along other family members, I'd have taken loads of people, why so less? I did hear people talking about me getting my family of 10-15 people along. Why 10-15, I would have got 40-50!"