Folks, that is Akshay Kumar, promoting his new film, Kesari 2.
No, he does not play a Kathakali dancer in the film.
A courtroom drama around the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh tragedy, Akshay plays lawyer C Sankaran Nair, who takes on the British Raj.
'This is not a costume. It's a symbol -- of tradition, of resistance, of truth, of my nation. C Sankaran Nair didn't fight with a weapon. He fought the British Empire with the law -- and with fire in his soul,' Akshay captions this image.
'This 18th APRIL, we bring you the court trial they never taught in textbooks.'
Kesari 2 also stars R Madhavan, Ananya Panday and Regena Cassandrra.
Akshay has already confirmed a Kesari 3, which will focus on General Hari Singh Nalwa, the commander-in-chief of the Sikh Khalsa Fauj.
Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh releases on April 18.
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