After India's independence, a drunk Indian Hockey Team Manager (pre-independence), Tapan Das (Akshay Kumar), holds aspirations of playing hockey as a free country, coaching a novice hockey team to earn independent India's first Olympic gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics while battling his own personal demons and the changing independence era.

• Akshay Kumar as Tapan Das
• Kunal Kapoor as Samrat
• Mouni Roy as Monobina Das, Tapan's Wife
• Amit Sadh as Raghubir Pratap Singh
• Pradeep Chhatani as Amit Trivedi
• Vineet Kumar Singh as Imtiaz Ali Shah
• Sunny Kaushal as Himmat Singh
• Nikita Dutta as Simran
• Lakshya Kochhar as Suryakant Pant
• Joy Badlani as Mr. Harsh Kapoor
• Jatin Sarna
• Udaybir Sandhu as Devang Chaturvedi
• Bhawsheel Singh Sahni as Tej Singh Randhawa
• Abdul Quadir Amin as Haries
• Varun Singh Rajput as Aasim Bilal
• Pravin Jaiswal as Basheer Ahmed
• Atul Kale as Mr. Mehta
• Darius Shroff as Mr. Wadia

Development

The official announcement of the film was made in October 2016 by its lead actor Akshay Kumar. The Arjuna Award winner and former Indian national hockey team captain, Sandeep Singh, was signed to train the actors to improve their hockey skills.

Major shooting was done in Yorkshire and The Midlands, England.

Director Reema Kagti said, "It’s a fictional take on what happened. Also, it is not just the golden victory in 1948 we will be looking at, but it will encompass 12 crucial years in India’s history."

Filming

The Principal photography of the film began on 1 July 2017 in Bradford, England. The shooting of the film was carried out in Yorkshire at Bradford, Doncaster and Rotherham.^[20] After finishing the England schedule, the production team of Gold moved to Punjab in September 2017 for its second schedule in which shooting was done in Amritsar and Patiala.^[21][22][23] Some parts of the movie were also shot in New Egerton Woolen Mills, Dhariwal a town in Punjab. The reason was the British infrastructure in the long established mill which resembled the post independence era.The final schedule of the film was completed in Mumbai in December 2017.^[24] On 10 December 2017, Akshay Kumar announced that the filming process of Gold had been completed.^[25][26] The teaser for the film was launched on 5 February 2018.^[27]

The film released on 15 August 2018.^[3][28]

The music and background score of the film were composed by Sachin-Jigar. Additional songs were composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee and Tanishk Bagchi. The lyrics were written by Javed Akhtar, Vayu, Arko Pravo Mukherjee and Chandrajeet Gannguli.

The first poster of movie was released by Akshay Kumar on his twitter handle on 12 June 2018.^[30] The trailer of the film was released on 25 June 2018.^[31]

Some Emoji were launched on Twitter to promote the movie which worked by applying hashtag before specific keywords like #GoldMovie or #Gold2018.^[32] These emojis were effective until 16 August 2018.

The movie was released on 15 August 2018 in India, to tie-in with Independence Day. International distribution has not yet been announced, but is expected to be about the same time.