{"id":24093,"date":"2019-09-09T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24093"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:26:40","slug":"akshay-kumar-to-play-prithviraj-chauhan-in-biopic-film-to-release-on-diwali-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24093","title":{"rendered":"Akshay Kumar to play Prithviraj Chauhan in biopic, film to release on Diwali 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his 52nd birthday, superstar Akshay Kumar announced his new project, a biopic on Samrat Prithiviraj Chauhan.<\/p>\n<p>Titled &#8220;Prithviraj&#8221;, the movie will be directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Chandraparaksh Dwivedi. Yash Raj Films is producing the project.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay said playing &#8220;one of the most fearless and courageous kings of India, Prithviraj Chauhan&#8221; is an honour for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a nation, we should always celebrate our heroes and immortalize what they did to propagate the values that Indians lived by. Prithviraj is our attempt to bring to light his valour and daredevilry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prithviraj was the only person standing in front of a merciless nemesis and the bravery he showed, made him a true Indian hero, an inspiration for generations and a legend. So this announcement coming on my birthday has indeed made it more special for me,&#8221; the actor said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prithviraj&#8221; will release worldwide on Diwali 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay had earlier featured in &#8220;Kesari&#8221;, a period drama revolving around Battle of Saragarhi, which chronicled a battle between 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikhs of the British Indian Army and 6,000 10,000 Afridi and Orakzai Pashtun tribesmen in 1897.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his 52nd birthday, superstar Akshay Kumar announced his new project, a biopic on Samrat Prithiviraj Chauhan. Titled &#8220;Prithviraj&#8221;, the movie will be directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Chandraparaksh Dwivedi. Yash Raj Films is producing the project. Akshay said playing &#8220;one of the most fearless and courageous kings of India, Prithviraj Chauhan&#8221; is an honour for him. &#8220;As a nation, we should always celebrate our heroes and immortalize what they did to propagate the values that Indians lived by. Prithviraj is our attempt to bring to light his valour and daredevilry.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24097,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions\/24097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}