There are plenty of Bollywood movie lovers in Saudi and now they have reasons to rejoice as the Kingdom got its first-ever Bollywood movie screening.

According to the Indian Express, Bollywood actor, Akshay Kumar’s film Gold has hit the screens in Saudi.

Directed by Reema Kagti, the film is a fictional retelling of the Indian hockey team’s win at the 1948 London Olympics.

The film was released in India on August 15^th.

Now that it has released in Saudi an excited Akshay Kumar broke the news on Twitter.

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The story of India’s first Gold medal victory for the first time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Happy to share, #Gold is the first ever Bollywood movie to release in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, in cinemas from today! @excelmovies @ZeeStudiosInt

— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) August 30, 2018

But it isn’t the first Indian movie to release in the Kingdom as earlier southern Indian movie star Rajnikanth’s social drama Kaala was screened in Riyadh.