React-Native Execution failed for task ‘:react-native-gesture-handler:compileDebugKotlin’.

Execution failed for task ':react-native-gesture-handler:compileDebugKotlin'.
Task :react-native-gesture-handler:compileDebugKotlin FAILED

Adding the following lines in the android/build.gradle fixes the error:

buildscript {
    ext {
        // ...
        kotlin_version = '1.6.10' // <- add this line
    }

    dependencies {
        // ...
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version" // <- add this line
        // ...
    }
}