Gold a fictional account of Independent India’s first Gold medal at the olympics is set up in the back drop of 1946 and Akshay’s teaser comes with a powerful tagline: “Abhi tak India chup tha. Ab hum log bolega aur duniya sunega.” Gold is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment.

Directed by Reema Kagti, who has earlier directed Talaash and Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd, the film explores what it meant to be a patriotic player in the pre-independence era. The film also marks the Bollywood debut of TV actor Mouni Roy.

It was earlier reported that Gold is a biopic on former hockey player Balbir Singh Sr. In an interview, producer Ritesh Sidhwani denied it being a biopic. He said, “It is not a biopic. It is a completely fictional story but it is set against a real backdrop between 1933-48 India about what the country was, the sports… About hockey. It is not based on any character.”

Gold is scheduled to hit the screens on August 15, 2018.

CAST

AKSHAY KUMAR, MOUNI ROY, KUNAL KAPOOR, AMIT SADH, VINEET SINGH, SUNNY KAUSHAL

PRODUCED BY

RITESHSIDHWANI, FARHANAKHTAR

DIRECTED BY

REEMA KAGTI