It’s ‘Rocky’ John Abraham versus ‘Singh’ Akshay Kumar this Gandhi Jayanti : Bollywood News

Gandhi Jayanti this year promises to be quite a sanguinary affair. Two biggies, neither too Gandhian in spirit, are lined up for release over the long weekend on October 2.

Nishikant Kamat's Rocky Handsome is a comeback vehicle for John Abraham who has been missing from the screen for nearly two years.

It’s ‘Rocky’ John Abraham versus ‘Singh’ Akshay Kumar this Gandhi Jayanti

Rocky Handsome is an action comedy adventure packed with the kind of dare-devilish stunts never seen before in our films. Director Kamat and Abraham had earlier come together for the very successful revenge drama Force.

Akshay Kumar's October 2 release Singh Is Bling is very special, as it brings him back together with director Prabhu Dheva. The twosome scored a resounding hit in Rowdy Rathod two years ago.

Both the biggies lined up for Gandhi Jayanti, mark the return of a tried and tested actor-director pair. It is unlikely that the box-office can absorb two such gigantic projects on the same Friday.

In 2014, two biggies the Hrithik Roshan-Katrina action-adventure Bang Bang and the Priyanka Chopra bio-pic Mary Kom were scheduled for October 2. Finally, Mary Kom bowed out. And instead, Bang Bang had Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider for company on October 2 last year.

It remains to be seen which among the two purported blockbusters scheduled for this year's Gandhi Jayanti bows out first.