Akshay Kumar to star in Neeraj Pandey's 'Rustom'
Mumbai: Akshay Kumar is set to collaborate again with filmmaker Neeraj Pandey for his next project, 'Rustom'.
The romantic-thriller will be Akshay and 'A Wednesday' director Pandey’s third film after their 2013 movie 'Special 26' and this year’s espionage-action thriller 'Baby'. The actor, who celebrates his 48th birthday today, took to Twitter to announce the news.
Thrilled 2 announce Neeraj Pandey & I are collaborating 4 a romantic thriller #Rustom releasing on Aug 12,2016!Hoping 2 be 3rd time lucky :)
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) September 8, 2015
The actor rang in his birthday with a late night dinner with wife, Twinkle Khanna.
She wished him on his birthday and shared a picture of the duo. “All set for the birthday boy’s dinner #happybirthday.” Akshay will be next seen in Prabhudheva’s action-comedy”Singh Is Bliing” and Raja Krishna Menon’s “Airlift”, which also stars “The Lunchbox” actress Nimrat Kaur.
Pandey is currently working on Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s biopic, “MS Dhoni: The Untold Story”, starring Sushant Singh Rajput in the titular role.