Akshay Kumar tunes in to play Gulshan Kumar in biopic ‘Mogul’ :- Bollywood Actor Akshay Kumar has announced that he will be essaying the role of music mogul Gulshan Kumar in his biopic title “Mogul”.
The 49-year-old star, who started shooting for “Pad Man”, released the first look of the film on the Twitter account.
Akshay said- “I had the good fortune of knowing Gulshanji well. My association with him started right from my first film Saugandh. We both shared talks in common and come from the same background. Also, I am very excited to play him on-screen.”
Akshay shared a special bond with Gulshan, who was shot dead outside the Mahadev temple, Mumbai in August 1997, from the time he made his Bollywood debut with “Saugandh” in 1991.
The first poster of the film shows the shadow of Kumar on a golden background with a cassette in the middle along with the caption “The Emperor of Music”.
From being a household name with his devotional and creative music to becoming the one-man music industry with T-Series, Gulshan’s life story is set to get captured in his biopic.
Akshay will again team up with director Subhash Kapoor in the film, after working together on “Jolly LLB 2”.
Produced by Gulshan’s wife, Sudesh Kumari, the biopic is expected for release in the year 2018.