Akshay Kumar’s Bachchan Pandey Gets A Female Lead, Read Details

After a lot of conjecture, it is now final that Akshay Kumar would be playing the lead in Fahad Samji’s LOL: Land Of Lungi which has been renamed as Bachchan Pandey. Earlier, Vicky Kaushal and Shah Rukh Khan’s names had surfaced but all of that is obviously history now.

However, do you know who is going to be Akshay’s leading lady in the film? Well, it is none other than her Housefull 4 co-actor Kriti Sanon. According to a report on a popular entertainment portal, a source revealed, “Kriti will play Akshay’s romantic interest – the girl whom his brothers find for him and he fights goons for. Kriti and Farhad share a good rapport after Housefull 4 and he, Akshay and Sajid decided to sign her for Bachchan Pandey.”

The source also revealed a lot of details about the film. The source said, “Earlier called Land of Lungi (LOL), Bachchan Pandey is a remake of the Tamil movie Veeram (2014), starring Ajith Kumar and Tamannah Bhatia. Like Ajith, Akshay will play a lungi-clad hero in the village-based drama, which is based in South India. His fans will get to see Akshay in a new avatar, speaking Tamil, and doing some hard-core, hand-to-hand combat. He is called Bachchan Pandey in the movie and the story revolves him and his four young brothers. Bachchan Pandey is a fascinating character as his metamorphosis from a loving, caring, non-violent elder brother, a family man, to a raw, violent, angry man, intent on fighting for his lover’s family, takes place. There is a scale and graph to Akshay’s character as he falls in love and it is Kriti’s character that brings about the change in Bachchan Pandey. Right now, the makers are keeping it under wraps, that it is a remake of Veeram.”