Controversies usually scare producers and directors. Actors more so.
After the harrowing experience of Vipul Shah's Singh is Kinng, Akshay
Kumar wants to take no chances at all.
In T Series' Patiala House Akshay will see him playing a Mona Sardar, which means a Sardar without a turban. Akshay's character Gattu, is shown to
belong to a Sardar family but is not a Sardar.
According to insiders Akshay Kumar did not want to take any risks with
Patiala House. During Singh is Kinng, large groups of Sardars had
staged protests against Akshay Kumar, for incorrectly portraying a
Sardar.
This time around to avoid any such, undue conflict, Akshay requested
director Nikhil Advani to change the script, and show his character as
a Mona Sardar. The script originally had Akshay's character as a
Sardar, however Akshay explained his predicament to Nikhil.
Says a source close to Akshay "Akshay did not want to hurt any
community's religious sentiments, and he also did not want to take any
risks with Patiala House, he therefore requested Nikhil to make
changes to the script."
Nikhil, understood Akshay’s situation and readily agreed. "Akshay's
character's parents get so distressed during the riots that as a
protection the did the unthinkable. Therefore in a harrowing sequence
in Patiala House where Akshay’s characters hair and beard are shaved
off."
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