Akshay Kumar

Last month, reports of Akshay Kumar giving his nod to a film based on the 1989 Raniganj coal disaster emerged, with the actor being roped in to play mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill, the hero of the rescue operation. Earlier this week, news of Ajay Devgn also essaying Gill's role in a Tinu Suresh Desai-directed project, surfaced. Interestingly, Desai had directed Akshay, who has a penchant of playing real life characters, in Rustom (2016), based on the Nanavati murder case.