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Winds of change

Akshay Kumar is set to ditch his ‘simple guy’ characters,who falls for people’s devious plans in order to play a cool,witty and wicked character who performs daredevil stunts.

While producer Sajid Nadiadwala is calling him the desi James Bond,it looks like Akki has had his fill of comedy — which has mostly had dismal results at the box office lately — and has instead opted for what first made him a star,action. His forthcoming films,Joker,Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai ‘s sequel and Housefull 2 are all indicators of that.

Good cop,bad cop

After being on the wrong side of the law in the blockbuster that catapulted his Bollywood career,Sonu Sood is set to play a cop in two of his forthcoming films. Kabeer Kaushik ‘s next directorial project,Maximum ,starring Arshad Warsi ,is a film on the underworld. Then there is Puri Jagannath ‘s Budda where Sonu shares screen space with Amitabh Bachchan,in a role that is modelled on the latter’s iconic character in Zanjeer. But the uniform doesn’t charm Sonu so much — the actor is waiting to challenge Salman Khan once again in Dabangg ‘s sequel. We’re eagerly awaiting that battle.