Akshay Kumar announces new film on 48th birthday

Bollywood action star Akshay Kumar, who turned 48 on Wednesday, announced his new romantic thriller “Rustom”, which marks his third collaboration with Neeraj Pandey. The movie will release on the weekend of Independence Day 2016.

The “Khiladi” star tweeted: “Thrilled to announce Neeraj Pandey and I are collaborating for a romantic thriller #Rustom releasing on Aug 12, 2016! Hoping to be third time lucky :).”

Akshay and Pandey have earlier worked as actor-director in “Baby” and “Special 26”, both of which found appreciation. But “Rustom” is not being directed by Pandey, and instead marks the directorial debut of Tinu Suresh Desai.

Inspired by real life incidents, the project is co-produced by Zee Studios, KriArj Entertainment and Friday Filmworks.

Apart from the actor, the movie will feature two "young actresses".

Pandey, who will pen the dialogues of the film, co-write the screenplay along with Vipul Rawal and contribute towards the film's edit, said: “When Tinu narrated 'Rustom' to us, we immediately got hooked to the quality of the narrative and its potential and instantly decided that it was something that we would like to produce. We also really felt that given the nature of the story, Akshay would be the perfect fit and him agreeing to come on board will definitely give it the canvas it requires.”

The first schedule of the shoot of “Rustom” will commence by mid-December this year. It will travel to multiple locations globally in the course of its production.

Source: IANS