Friday, 27th September 3:00 PM IST

A R Murugadoss has roped in Khiladi Akshay Kumar for lead role in B-town’s remake of Tamil blockbuster ‘Thuppaki’, which originally starred Tamil superstar Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal. Thuppaki's story was about an Indian army intelligence officer who tries to expose a terrorist conspiracy.

Titled ‘Holiday’, the movie just like the original, will be an action thriller based on sleeper cells. ‘Holiday’ also stars Sonakshi Sinha in a pivotal role.

Akshay Kumar recently revealed - “My next film ‘Holiday’ is based on something very different…I am so excited about this film, but I can’t open up right now. It’s about sleeper cells which you guys have never heard of.”

Akshay further added - “I would love to do character-driven role, but people are more focused on commercial cinema. These kinds of films don’t come quickly. But such roles have to come to me and I am looking forward to it.”