Akshay has a date with a doll!

There’s something quite enigmatic about the number 9, say astrologers and numerologists across the world.

Golden Globe Award winning director-producer Tim Burton of Batman Returns and Mars Attacks fame and Timur Bekmambetov (known for Wanted, Escape from Afghanistan), agree. So, to explore the puzzle further, the duo got their animated efforts together to launch a film called 9 and plan to release it on 09-09-09.

And, since Bollywood action superstar Akshay Kumar’s birthday falls on September 9, the film’s distributor has asked him to launch an online game based on 9.

The film is a computer-animated, dark and quirky nightmare in which humanity is threatened when fearsome machines start to attack civilisation. A team of nine rag dolls, led by Doll No 9, which is mentally dexterous and sensitive, saves the future from apocalypse.