Actor Farhan Akhtar is back with another sports drama after the successful ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ . This time he is ready to pack a punch as a disgraced boxer in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s ‘Toofan’.

The actor has unveiled the trailer of his upcoming sports drama,

“The storm has arrived, are you ready? #ToofaanTrailer out now,” he wrote. The film also stars Mrunal Thakur and Paresh Rawal in pivotal roles.

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Watch the trailer here:

The trailer begins with Mrunal Thakur’s character telling Farhan Akhtar’s character that the five-year ban on him has been lifted. However, he looked uninterested. The video then shows us his journey from Ajju bhai, a goon from Dongri, to Aziz Ali aka ‘Toofaan’, a respectable boxer.

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Paresh Rawal plays his coach.

Although Toofaan was originally set for a theatrical release, the makers opted for an OTT release in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film will be out on July 16.

Farhan’s ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, a biographical sports drama film, was also directed by Mehra from a script written by Prasoon Joshi. The story was based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete and Olympian who was a champion of the Commonwealth Games and two-times 400m champion of the Asian Games.

Farhan played the title character with Sonam K Ahuja, Divya Dutta, Meesha Shafi, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Art Malik, and Prakash Raj in other pivotal roles.

Milkha Singh, who has died aged 91, was also known as ‘The Flying Sikh‘. He was the only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games along with gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honour, in recognition of his sporting achievements.