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Indian National Award-winning actress Vidya Balan remembers being absolutely moonstruck when she saw an iconic image of a bunch of sari-clad women scientists, identified as the staff of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), looking jubilant as their spacecraft entered the Mars orbit for the first time in Indian space history.
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Indian National Award-winning actress Vidya Balan remembers being absolutely moonstruck when she saw an iconic image of a bunch of sari-clad women scientists, identified as the staff of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), looking jubilant as their spacecraft entered the Mars orbit for the first time in Indian space history.
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00:00It's no rocket science to launch a satellite into Mars, or so we believe when we walk out
00:05of director Jagan Shakti's Mission Mangal.
00:13It's the cinematic equivalent of the Big Bang Theory.
00:16The only difference is that instead of the nerdy oddballs that we love the hit western
00:20TV series for, it's the women who take centre stage in Mission Mangal.
00:25Although it's spearheaded by Akshay Kumar, who's now Bollywood's go-to guy for patriotic
00:30films, this movie is fortunately not chest-thumpingly jingoistic.
00:35And Akshay Kumar, for a change, lets the women shine.
00:38He takes backseat.
00:40And it's very rare for a Bollywood hero in a movie to actually allow that to happen.
00:45He allows the women to grab the glory and they actually shine.
00:48Sonakshi, Sinha, Taapsee, Pannu, these are all women with incredible acting heft.
00:53Nitya Menon, Kirti Kulhari, and of course we all know Vidya Balan, who's like a national
00:58award-winning actress.
00:59Another thing that works for this movie is the release date of this film.
01:03It released on August 15, that's India's Independence Day.
01:07When we're just feeling a bit patriotic and a bit nostalgic about our home country,
01:12we have a movie like Mission Mangal talk about the incredible achievement of India.
01:18This film chronicles India's actual remarkable space mission history, where it sent a satellite
01:24into Mars in September 2014.
01:27It was our current Prime Minister Modi who took the credit for it and claimed that the
01:32mission was conducted and less than the budget of a normal Hollywood film.
01:36And which I say is an incredible feat.
01:39The biggest flaw of this film, of course, is how director Jagan Shakti, and it's written
01:44by Art Balki as well, how he has oversimplified science.
01:48In fact, this is one of the few movies where you feel like science is not very tough and
01:54that everybody can crack it.
01:56That's one of the reasons why you walk out of the cinema thinking, maybe I could have
01:59been a scientist if I had more common sense perhaps.
02:02And that's one of the downfalls of this film.
02:04Applying the use of fuel, the way you would make a puri and Indian bread, is a bit too simplistic.
02:10Maybe it really happened, but it's very difficult for us to digest it.
02:14While a person who does not understand science will enjoy this film thoroughly, there may
02:19be experts who might frown at the oversimplification that we just saw.
02:24The strides that you see in this movie, taken on both the feminist front and perhaps erasing
02:29religious hate, is very superficial.
02:31Director Shakti does not dwell deeply into it, but somehow he manages to still put his
02:36point across.
02:38Trying to unite comedy, wit, humour and drama into one movie is not very easy.
02:43But director Shakti takes a leap of faith here and tries to unite all of this and what we
02:48get is a slightly messy product.
02:50I wish there was a movie just made on the backstories of these women because I would
02:55definitely put my money on it.
02:57While this film is not going to be an out of this world experience, it's definitely
03:01going to make your world go round or spin because of the women in it.
03:05I've given 3 out of 5.
03:07For my full review, go to gulfnews.com slash tabloid.