Mumbai, Feb. 9 -- Not since Sanjay Dutt played the villainous Afghan King Ahmed Shah Abdali in Ashutosh Gowariker's 2019 drama 'Panipat', and Saif Ali Khan menacingly portrayed Aurangzeb's Rajput general Udaybhan Rathod in Ajay Devgn's 2020 actioner 'Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior', has Bollywood looked forward to an evil warrior stepping out of the history books onto the silver screen as they do to Akshaye Khanna playing the role of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Dinesh Vijan's 'Chhaava' releasing on February 14.

Akshaye has played the Bollywood antagonist before, if not the actual baddie. Fans will remember him as the alcoholic antagonist in Abbas-Mustan's 2008 action thriller 'Race'. And later, in Sajid Nadiadwala's high octane actioner...