Gold (2018)

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Gold: The Dream That United Our Nation, or simply Gold, is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language period sports film written and directed by Reema Kagti and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Mouni Roy, Amit Sadh, Kunal Kapoor, Vineet Kumar Singh, Sunny Kaushal and Nikita Dutta.

Production

Gold was officially announced in October 2016 by Akshay Kumar, who was confirmed to play the leading role in a film written and directed by Reema Kagti and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under Excel Entertainment, marking his maiden collaboration with Kagti, Sidhwani and Akhtar; Kumar was originally approached to star in Akhtar's 2006 remake of his father's 1978 film Don, but it did not materialize.

Arjuna Award winner and former Indian national hockey team captain Sandeep Singh was signed to train the actors to improve their hockey skills. According to Kagti, the film is "a fictional take on what happened. Also, it is not just the golden victory in 1948 we will be looking at, but it will encompass 12 crucial years in India’s history." Akhtar was originally considered to play a supporting part in the film, but declined.

Principal photography began on 1 July 2017 in Bradford, England. The shooting of the film was carried out in Yorkshire at Bradford, Doncaster and Rotherham. After finishing the England schedule, production moved to Punjab in September 2017 for the second schedule in which shooting was conducted in Amritsar and Patiala. Some parts of the film were also shot in New Egerton Woolen Mills, Dhariwal a town in Punjab.

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