Salman Khan and Irrfan Khan

Versatile actor Irrfan Khan will be starring in Salman Khan's upcoming production, 'Lions of the Sea', an English period drama based on the Komagata Maru incident. According to a report by Mumbai Mirror, the Komagata Maru was a Japanese steamship, on which 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims and 12 Hindus, all subjects of the British Raj, were travelling in order to immigrate to Canada. Of them only 24 were admitted to Canada and the ship along with the rest were forced to return to India.