Akshay Kumar shares new pic from the sets of Kesari, wishes fans on Baisakhi

On the occasion of Baisakhi or Vaisakhi today, Akshay Kumar took time out from his hectic shooting schedule for the movie Kesari and wished all his fans for the festival. Seen with a turban and a beard the Khiladi Kumar is looking a pukka Sikh.

Kesari also stars Parineeti Chopra.

Baisakhi or Vaisakhi is a historical and religious festival of Sikhs and is celebrated with much pomp and fervor in Punjab and around the world wherever Sikh population is in majority. The festival marks the foundation of the Khalsa community of Sikhs, started by Guru Gobind Singh.

Akshay Kumar who is playing the role of Havildar Ishar Singh and is period war drama based on the Battle of Saragarhi in which an army of 21 Sikhs fought against 10,000 Afghans in 1897.

“Tuhanu saareyaan nu Baisakhi di sohni saver mubarak hove!! Hasde vasde raho!!”(Many congratulations to all of you on the occasion of Baisakhi, keep laughing.)

Check Akshay Kumar’s Baisakhi message for his tweet here:

The film is being produced by Karan Johar, Twinkle Khanna and Isha Ambani. He film also stars Mohit Raina (of Devon Ke Dev Mahadev fame), Pawan Malhotra  and Rana Ranbir and is scheduled for  release in 2019.

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This is the third film where he will be seen donning the avatar of a Sikh, after ‘Singh Is Kinng’ and ‘Singh Is Bliing’.

‘Kesari’, will be co-produced by Akshay and Karan Johar and is reportedly based on the Battle of Saragarhi and is touted to be quite an ambitious project.

Directed by Anurag Singh, the movie is based on the encounter between 21 Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army and a 10,000-strong troop of Afghani tribesmen in the Saragarhi outpost of the North-West Frontier Province on September 12 that year. Though vastly outnumbered, the regiment is said to have fought to its death in what is hailed as one of history’s greatest last stands.

The first look shows a turban-clad Kumar as Havildar Ishar Singh, who led the Sikh regiment.