Akshay Kumar's The Great Indian Rescue will be released in theatres on October 5, 2023. The film, directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, stars Parineeti Chopra as the female lead. 

The Great Indian Rescue is based on the true life event of the late Jaswant Singh Gill, who led India's first coal mine rescue mission.

Gill was born in Sathiala, Amritsar, on November 22, 1939. He studied at Khalsa College and was posted in Raniganj in 1989 when he engineered a special rescue capsule to save the lives of several miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine.

The Great Indian Rescue, earlier titled 'Capsule Gill. The film is produced by Vashu Bhagnani, Deepshikha Deshmukh, Jackky Bhagnani and Ajay Kapoor