About a riot!

Akki-Nikhil team up for project based on Southall violence in the '70s

After Chandni Chowk To China, Akshay Kumar and Nikhil Advani are planning to team up once again. However, this isn't a sequel to CC2C but another project.

Sources reveal that Advani is currently working on a script based on the 1979 Southall riots. The subject struck Nikhil during one of his trips to London.

A source reveals, "The film is on the riots that took place in Southall. Nikhil is busy working on the script at the moment and has already spoken to Akshay for the film.
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The latter has shown interest but is waiting for Nikhil to work on the entire script before giving his nod."

The film will revolve around the class and racial riots that took place in the late '70s and early '80s. "The film starts off from the time when Southall was a small town brewing with migrants.

Then a series of murders, particularly of a Sikh teenager and then a school teacher make the domestic scene in the place very violent."

Though the film's casting is incomplete, it is believed that Akshay suggested to Nikhil that Katrina co-star opposite him.

About Southall

Southall is a place in London that has come to be affectionately known as Little India, but for many it is much more than that.

Being a port, (Heathrow is a stone's throw away), Southall has been a home to such diverse ethnic groups as the West Indians, Indians and Pakistanis in the '50s through to the Ugandan Asians in the '70s.

Most recently, new arrivals include Sikhs from Afghanistan and Somalians.