When Akshay Kumar defied Hitler

Updated On: 25 June, 2018 08:20 PM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR

Akshay Kumar recreates the iconic moment from 1936 Berlin Olympics when Dhyan Chand refused to salute the Fuhrer, in his upcoming sports drama Gold

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Though Akshay Kumar's upcoming Gold is based on India bagging its first gold medal in hockey as an independent nation in the 1948 Summer Olympics, director Reema Kagti has taken the creative liberty to include a historic moment from the 1936 Berlin Olympics in her narrative. Kagti, we hear, has recreated the episode when Dhyan Chand - who led the Indian hockey contingent at the Berlin Olympics - refused to salute Adolf Hitler during the opening ceremony in a show of defiance. The American contingent was the only other country that made a similar gesture.

Still from the film