Actor Akshay Kumar is known to be workaholic. He has continued working in the pandemic as well and just like always he has quite a few projects lined up these days. One of his upcoming movies is action comedy 'Bachchan Pandey'. It stars Kriti Sanon alongside Akshay and now Arshad Warsi have joined the cast as well.

Akshay will play a gangster who is an aspiring actor and Arshad will be one of the gang members. Makers were looking for someone who can match Akshay's comic timing so they choose Arshad as he played similar role in Munnabhai franchise. The shooting will begin in January 2021 and wrap up by March 2021.

Akshay has finished filming 'Bell Bottom' and is currently busy with his period film 'Prithviraj'.