Uh-oh, this morning’s exciting story about Akshay Kumar reuniting with filmmaker Neeraj Pandey to make a thriller based on the career highlights of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is not true at all. The story said that the two reportedly have strained relations after Neeraj planned to release his espionage film Aiyaary on Republic Day in 2018 alongside Akshay’s social drama PadMan. Neeraj subsequently deferred the release date to February 16. But, by then, sources said that an upset Akshay called off the film Crack that he had announced with Neeraj earlier.
So their coming together on the film on Doval was good news for the industry. It was supposedly on the lines of Baby and work on the script had begun even while research was underway for the film. Neeraj had to first finish Chanakya with Ajay Devgn while Akshay had a slew of films on hand, too. Once the script was locked, the film would be announced, the story said.
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Thrilled by the likelihood of the actor and producer-director of such Bollywood hits like the 2013 heist film Special 26, the espionage thriller Baby in 2015, and the crime drama Rustom in 2016 coming together again, PeepingMoon.com sought a confirmation of the Akshay and Neeraj collaboration.
After all, the proposed film on Doval promises to be a cracker given that he was former director of Intelligence Bureau and has had an active career dealing with terrorism and insurgency. Doval was most recently part of the core team that strategized the Balakot airstrike on February 26.
But, to our surprise and disappointment, the answer came negative. Akshay and Neeraj are doing no film together. And no film is being planned on the reticent National Security Adviser as well. Doval’s flirtation with Bollywood, it seems, ended with the role of Govind Bhardwaj in Vicky Kaushal’s Uri: The Surgical Strike that was said to be fashioned on the National Security Adviser and quietly played by Paresh Rawal.
(Source: PeepingMoon)
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