Akshay Kumar's ‘Mission Raniganj’ to release on October 6

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar's new rescue thriller film 'Mission Raniganj' is going to hit the cinema screens on October 6.

The upcoming film is “inspired by a real-life incident at Raniganj coalfield and inspired from the heroic act of Late Shri Jaswant Singh Gill who led Bharat’s coal mine rescue mission”, said the makers.

On Wednesday, the makers released the motion poster of “Mission Raniganj” with the tagline ‘The Great Bharat Rescue’ on social media. The title reveal of the Hindi movie comes amid the ongoing India-Bharat naming controversy.

According to a press release issued by production house Pooja Entertainment, “The heroic Jaswant Singh Gill played a significant role in rescuing all the surviving miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Raniganj in November 1989 which was a successful rescue mission in Bharat against all odds”.

Akshay is set to play mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill. A resident of Amritsar, Gill had received several awards for his act of bravery in 1989.