Akshay Kumar’s rescue thriller ‘Mission Raniganj’ will be released on October 6.

According to the producers, the upcoming film is “inspired by a real-life incident at Raniganj coalfield and inspired by the heroic act of Late Shri Jaswant Singh Gill who led Bharat’s coal mine rescue mission.”

On Wednesday, the makers of ‘Mission Raniganj’ shared a motion poster on social media with the tagline “The Great Bharat Rescue”. The Hindi film’s title was revealed amid the ongoing India-Bharat naming controversy.

“The heroic Jaswant Singh Gill played a significant role in rescuing all the surviving miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Raniganj in November 1989, which was a successful rescue mission in Bharat against all odds,” the makers said, according to PTI.

Mining engineer Gill, who will be played by Kumar, was an Amritsar resident who received several awards for his bravery in 1989. He volunteered and saved the lives of 64 people from a flooded mine in West Bengal’s Raniganj district. Gill passed away in 2019 at the age of 80.

Akshay also shared the motion poster on his official Instagram page and wrote: “In 1989, one man achieved the impossible! Watch the story of Bharat’s true hero with #MissionRaniganj in cinemas on 6th October. Teaser out tomorrow.”.

Parineeti Chopra, Kumud Mishra, Pavan Malhotra, Ravi Kishan, Varun Badola, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Rajesh Sharma, Virendra Saxena, Shishir Sharma, Ananth Mahadevan, Jameel Khan, Sudhir Pandey, Bachan Pachera, Mukesh Bhatt, Omkar Das Manikpur round out the cast of ‘Mission Raniganj’.

Tinu Suresh Desai, who helmed ‘Rustom’ also starring Akshay, has directed the project.