Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar who last impressed his fans as Samrat Prithviraj, is all set to be seen next in the upcoming thriller tentatively titled ‘Mission Cinderella’. While we already know that actress Rakul Preet Singh is the leading lady, now there is news on the nemesis of the film. Reportedly British actor Joshua LeClair has been roped in to play the bad guy in the film. 

Joshua’s character will be performance driven thus prosthetics was used, which took hours to get him ready. The film’s shoot began in October 2021 in UK and then proceeded in Dehradun and Mussoorie in February 2022. The film’s shoot is now complete. It is directed by Bell Bottom director Ranjit M Tewari and is the Hindi remake of Tamil 2018 psychological crime-thriller, ‘Ratsasan’. 

Mission Cinderella isn’t the first film where Akshay has worked with an international villain. He has previously worked with American professional wrestler Brian Adams in the film Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi in 1996.