Real life inspires reel life. Real characters give way to reel ones. And here is a really big inspiration for this movie. Earlier we had it that director Nikhil Advani is going to present ‘Patiala House’ with an interesting set of stars. The movie will have Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia. The movie is said to be based on a real-life joint family in Mumbai. This family is believed to be one of the largest joint families in India and have been living together for three generations! However, ‘Patiala House’ presents a story of a joint family in London’s Southall.  The head of the family is Gurkreeat Singh Kalon, played by Rishi Kapoor and Akshay plays the modern second-generation Sikh.

About the movie, the director said, “Our story is universal in spirit as it is a story about all joint families who have a patriarch who makes their decisions and wants to keep everyone under one roof. Kalon family has been living for the last four generations in Southall and he has created his own fiefdom in Patiala House.”

Now did you know the title was given by our stunt hero? Yup, Says Akki, “I wanted a title that suggested largeness in terms of numbers. Patiala is synonymous with a large peg and that is understood universally as something which is bigger than regular. Hence, Patiala House, a cluster of several houses that hosts a whole of family and cousins.” Incidentally, it was him who had suggested the title for Vipul Shah’s ‘Singh Is Kingg’.

‘Patiala House’ is co-produced Mukesh Talreja and T-Series’ Bhushan Kumar.