Akshay Kumar, whose next Gold is based on true events about India winning its first Olympic gold medal in hockey as a free nation, believes it is "frivolous" to compare the film with Chak De! India. Led by Shah Rukh Khan, the 2007 sports film was a fictional story about the Indian women's national field hockey team, which was inspired by the squad's win at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

"Everything will be a competition. For me, it is all about doing a good film. Chak De... was a different story, Gold is different. It is frivolous to even think like that or competing with that film. Don't compare it, it is all different," Akshay said in an interview.