#4 Akshay Kumar as Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore scripted history by becoming the first Indian individual to win a silver medal at the Olympic Games in over a century. Rathore won India’s solitary medal at the 2004 Athens Games.
He shot to silver in the Men’s Double Trap event and rose to prominence immediately. He has also won two gold medals at the World Shooting Championships in Sydney in 2004 and in Cairo on 2006. Between 2002 and 2006, Rathore bagged as many as 25 medals in different international shooting meets.
A descendent of Rao Bikaji, the first ruler of Bikaner, Rathore was born in Jaisalmer. He served as a soldier of the Indian Army and currently serves as the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting in the Indian government.
Patriotic films are Akshay Kumar’s forte. And imagine a moustache-sporting Akshay, wielding a gun and shooting for Olympic glory as the national anthem plays in the background. Goosebumps!
