The Khiladi of Bollywood Akshay Kumar started 2018 with the shooting of “Kesari” in which he is going to play the character of Havildar Ishar Singh.
“Kesari” is based on the “Battle of Saragarhi” and it will be made under the banner of Dharma Productions. Parineeti Chopra has been finalised as the lead actress of the movie.

Yesterday only, Karan Johar took to the micro-blogging site Twitter and announced the lead actress of “Kesari”; however, he used Akshay Kumar’s pic to make this announcement.

He tweeted, “The lead actress in #KESARI is ……..PARINEETI CHOPRA! @ParineetiChopra”
https://twitter.com/karanjohar/status/951059713751429122
Twitter couldn’t digest the name of Parineeti along with the photo of Akshay and trolled KJo in the most epic way!

Check out some selected reactions:
Pari is looking quite different, much like Akshay Kumar:
https://twitter.com/_YourShilpa/status/951068025230327809
Didn’t know Akshay and Pari are identical:
https://twitter.com/EkAkeleSbkoPele/status/951110381921021952
Akshay biting Dhoni:
Akshay kumar biting Dhoni pic.twitter.com/IaQQdFlvHS
— Ketan (@ketanpunekarrr) January 10, 2018
Pari looks amazing in beard:
https://twitter.com/_EternalSalman_/status/951073099683848192
Akshay as bride:
https://twitter.com/LostyMax/status/951102320254898176
Akshay’s awesome action photo:
Here is @akshaykumar 's stunning action pic from Ishaqzaade! pic.twitter.com/0sEThUvgAy
— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) January 10, 2018
Karan is looking good in this pic:
Even you are looking really good in this pic Karan. pic.twitter.com/dMV6kdkHrp
— IAS Smoking Skills (@Smokingskills07) January 10, 2018
Super funny reactions:
Leonardo Di Caprio in Titanic pic.twitter.com/yrtnK43nwJ
— vijay (@Kramu56) January 10, 2018
Here is @vindiesel new look in movie…. pic.twitter.com/zDqOIjOV4L
— टीपूडा 🗑 (@AmolDraws) January 10, 2018
SRK in his iconic romantic pose:
Shahrukh Khan in his trademark pose. pic.twitter.com/YVXqz95SqW
— Raju Das (@rajudasonline) January 10, 2018
Make-up skills deserve grand salute:
https://twitter.com/bluephantom7/status/951071272091385860
Epic 😀
https://twitter.com/kunnu_kick/status/951080957662171137
While Akshay Kumar is playing the character of Havildar Ishar Singh in Kesari, there are two other actors, Ajay Devgn and Randeep Hooda, who will play the same character in two other movies which will also be based on Battle of Saragarhi.
Earlier, Kesari was supposed to be a joint venture between Salman Khan and Karan Johar but it didn’t work out and now only Karan Johar is producing it.