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pritamsahoo 366 days ago

Review We can categorise Akshay Kumar starrer Mission Mangal in science fiction genre,but this fiction is a reality.I was in 10th standard when first I read about MOM (Mars Orbitor Mission).As an Indian I wished to go about it.Now,many years later this movie based on MOM feeds my curiosity.<br/>Akshay has proven himself in patriotic feel good films.However Mission Mangal covers a huge support cast includes Vidya Balan,Tapsee Pannu,Sonakshi Sinha,Sharman Joshi,Sanjay Kapoor and some others.<br/>Camera starts with the failure of ISRO's brilliant scientist Rakesh Dhawan (Akshay Kumar) and Tara Shinde's (Vidya Balan) rocket launch.Tara thinks it was her fault behind their project failure.Rakesh still relax and has appointed as project head on Mars Mission.Now on this believes impossible mission except Rakesh and Tara everyone is naive whether it is new driving license applicant Kritika (Tapsee Pannu) or Parmeshwar Naidu (Sharman Joshi) who believes in kundli.Sonakshi,<br/>Nitya,Kirti Kulhari and H.G Dattatreya have also played the part of this unexperienced team.Dilip Tahil essayed as a villian who demotivates the team.<br/>How our ISRO team made possible the impossible in limited budget of 400 crores in contrast of America and China's 5000 crores project is watchable.<br/>Mission Mangal can't be quote as only an Akshay's film because Vidya Balan gives him a tough competition. She portrayed a perfect lady who manages the home science and space science together.Sanjay Kapoor played Vidya's husband.It's good to see him dancing on his own number 'Ankhaniyan Milaye'.Sharman as Parmeshwar gave some lighter moments.Other actors receive the tag of average.Every character has its own significance but it is Akshay who assembles everyone.<br/>Director Jagan Shakti points camera towards Tara's family after every 10 Minutes which stretches the length of movie.Whereas no back story for Rakesh which upsets.The simplification of rocket science is interesting which brings film close to every class of audience.Song 'Dil mein mars' is full of enthusiasm.CGI is good and screenplay covers many pleasant innovative life hacks.Jagan Shakti has made his debut with a good topic.<br/>Overwhelming,Mission Mangal celebrates the victory of Indian Space Science.It narrates the story of success after failure and inspires millions of people.One time watchers will not upset on this scientific journey.

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Jagan Shakti’s exhilaratingly schmaltzy fact-based drama about India’s epochal launch of a Mars-bound satellite is a rousing crowd-pleaser.

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Chronic cynics and inveterate snarkers would do themselves — and everyone else — a great big favor by steering clear of “Mission Mangal,” an entertaining and ingratiating feel-good movie about the 2013 launch of the Mangalyann space probe, an against-all-odds triumph of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). In the world according to director Jagan Shakti and his team of screenwriters, this epochal event — India’s first interplanetary excursion, and the first time any country succeeded at sending a satellite to Mars in its initial attempt — is a textbook example of jugaad , a Hindi expression often translated as efficacious improvisation with minimal resources. And there is more than a hint of “Hidden Figures” to the storytelling here, in that most of the improvisation is inspired by observations and experiences of women who sign on for the Mars Orbiter Mission, or “MOM” (yes, really).

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Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan are first and second among equals in the ensemble cast, playing Rakesh Dhawan, introduced as an obsessively dedicated scientist charged with overseeing ISRO space explorations, and Tara Shinde, a project director who maintains an indelicate balance between familial and professional responsibilities. When an unmanned space launch must be spectacularly aborted — due largely, it must be noted, to a miscalculation by Tara — Rakesh accepts full responsibility for the mission’s failure, and winds up transferred to a low-profile, under-funded project to launch a Mars satellite. Rakesh labors under the near-certainty that he lacks funds and resources to ever do much but mark time in his new assignment, until Tara jump-starts his enthusiasm by applying what she knows about frying bread when her husband forgets to pay the gas bill to game-planning how a rocket could conserve fuel for a satellite launch.

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Even after Rakesh gets the A-OK to pursue possibilities for the Mars mission, however, he is severely restrained by ISRO brass in terms of who he can enlist for his project. As a result, he is limited to second and third choices — most of them female and all of whom, of course, prove to have the right stuff when it comes to jugaad . Varsha Pillal (Nithya Menen), for example, brings to the equation her knowledge of how she makes the most of the limited apartment space she shares with her husband and mother-in-law. Kritika Aggarwa (Taapsee Pannu) comes up with an on-off adjustment at just the right moment during the Mars mission— naturally, a few scenes after she’s applied the same approach to a more earthbound problem.

“Mission Mangal” is filled with such wink-wink payoffs for stealthily planted plot elements, and abounds with the sort of all-is-lost setups that screenwriting gurus suggest are mandatory before rah-rah third-act turnabouts. But here’s the thing: It’s hard to be dismissive of a formulaic narrative when filmmakers are adhering to such a potent formula.

When Balan (who is drop-dead perfect from wire to wire) has her show-stopping moment, as Tara reminds her colleagues what inspired them to become scientists in the first place, she folds the movie into manageable size and tucks it into her pocket. (“Star Wars” inspired Tara — but hers isn’t the only affecting revelation.) The final half-hour or so of Shakti’s crowd-pleaser, effectively hyped with Amit Trivedi’s wall-to-wall, adrenaline-pumping score, is so exhilaratingly schmaltzy, it might all by itself establish the movie’s bona fides as a guilty pleasure. But, really, why feel guilty about enjoying the sheer rush of such crafty emotion-stoking manipulation?

Another thing in the movie’s favor: For all of its obvious romanticizing, just about every actor — ranging from Balan and Menen to Sharman Joshi as a virginal thirtysomething male scientist on the MOM team — actually looks like who we’re supposed to believe they are. Even Indian superstar Akshay Kumar (best known to many for playing the title role in “Singh is Kinng”) is able, with the strategic application of spectacles, to be completely creditable as an ordinary guy fueled with dreams of doing something extraordinary. As he thrillingly states: “A dream is not something we see in our sleep. A dream is something that does not let you sleep.”

Reviewed at AMC Studio 30, Houston, Aug. 15, 2019. Running time: 126 MIN.

• Production: A Fox Star Studios release and production, in association with Cape of Good Films, Hope Prods. Producers: Aruna Bhatia, Anil Naidu.
• Crew: Director: Jagan Shakti. Screenplay: R. Balki, Jagan Shakti, Nidhi Singh Dharma, Saketh Kondiparthi. Camera (color): S. Ravi Varman. Editor: Chandan Arora. Music: Amit Trivedi.
• With: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Nithya Menen, Kirti Kulhari, Sharman Joshi, H.G. Dattatreya, Sanjay Kapoor, Dalip Tahil, Vikram Gokhale. (Hindi, English dialogue)

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Mission Mangal Movie Review: Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan are heart and soul of this space entertainer

Mission mangal, starring akshay kumar and vidya balan, has hit the screens. jagan shakti's directorial venture makes for an interesting independence day watch..

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But that is IMPOSSIBLE--- This is a recurring line throughout Mission Mangal, and practically every character says it emphatically with an air of despair. But you forget, when you have Akshay Kumar around with a very fiercely determined Vidya Balan, how is anything impossible? And so, that's what Mission Mangal is all about, achieving the unthinkable. The film tells the inspiring tale of India's first Mars Mission, Mangalyaan, which was launched in 2013. Mission Mangal begins with the failure of GLSV Fat Boy, and Akshay heroically taking the blame for someone else's mistake. And so, he is shunted over to the Mars Mission, which no one expects anything from.

But Akshay, who plays the role of Rakesh Dhawan is seemingly chilled. He doesn't believe in wasting a laddoo and enjoys humming cryptic songs about failure. He is a quirky scientist, with the heart and mind of Akshay Kumar as he doesn't mind jumping across tables to prove a point or telling some painful bad jokes, reminiscent of his Housefull stints. Not all jokes though, Akshay is best when he is snarky.

Nevertheless, his interest in the Mars Mission is reignited after seeing Vidya Balan's unfailing enthusiasm to make it a resounding success. It is far from easy, as apart from scientific challenges they are faced with a cynical Dalip Tahil, who is the closest to being a villain in the film. He is from NASA and he thinks he is the cat's whiskers. But, as Akshay says coolly, you need a strong opposition party to push you to victory (Yes, we got the hint there, Akshay). Tahil gives them a team of inexperienced and new scientists, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Sonakshi Sinha, Nithya Menen and Sharman Joshi.

The film shows how this team of initially disinterested and troubled scientists finally achieve the impossible. The film's trailers and posters received much flak as Akshay Kumar seemed to have the most prominence, as compared to the women. To be honest, while the film initially does seem to play up Akshay in every way, Vidya is keen to not let that happen. There is a tough competition between the two on who can give more motivational analogies to their team, along with Akshay's trademark dose of patriotic speeches, though slightly subtle this time.

Using the example of fried puris and innumerable cricket metaphors, they explain rocket science to you, at the risk of even oversimplification. There is no doubt that Vidya shines in her role and at times even Akshay seems to consciously move to the background and charitably lets her take over. It is a shame that the ever-reliable Taapsee takes the back seat and Nithya Menen remains quiet like her character with hardly any discernible personality traits.

Sonakshi plays the role of a woman who has more faith in NASA than ISRO, and it takes a couple of empowering speeches from Vidya and Akshay to change that. No really, she discovers the solution to a pressing problem in one night after being shouted at by Akshay. Sharman Joshi has a couple of hilarious punch-lines, that actually make the intense moments lighter.

Mission Mangal knows that it needs to cater to the masses as well, so it strives to go easy on the scientific explanations, and puts it in comprehensible words. If it is a scientific film at one point, it is also a mass entertainer the next. Director Jagan Shakti knows what his audience needs from an Akshay Kumar film. Shakti works hard to ensure that the film does not lose control at points and tries to keep the balance between showing the personal lives and the professional lives of the scientists, at the risk of coming across slightly fragmented at points.

The second half has all your attention, and the final climax is a nail-biting finish, though you obviously know what is going to happen. The visual effects of the Mars orbit have been done brilliantly, with the appropriate music to match the tension as well. It is fascinating to see the journey of the satellite's journey from Earth to Mars. This is one of the film's strongest points. There are not too many songs in the film, which is actually a relief. Songs like Shabaashiyan give the film a pleasant feel.

Despite its flaws of excessive sermons and some crucial characters like Taapsee and Kirti not fleshed out completely, Mission Mangal makes for an entertaining Independence Day watch. That seems to be how the director intended it as well, a space-entertainer, rather than a hardcore scientific film. The flight might face some turbulence but it lands well.

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Mission Mangal movie review: Vidya Balan and Akshay Kumar carry off an oversimplified film

Mission mangal movie review: akshay kumar leads an all-star cast that includes vidya balan, nithya menen, sonakshi sinha and kirti kulhari in this inspiration fact-based story. rating: 2/5..

Mission Mangal Director - Jagan Shakti Cast - Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Kirti Kulhari, Nithya Menen Rating - 2/5

It’s a godawful small affair. Rakesh Dhawan is a mission director at the Indian Space Research Organisation, and after his last mission was a non-starter, he’s been given a punishment posting and assigned to a mission nobody really wants: an expedition to Mars. This ambition appears entirely out of reach given ISRO’s budgets, and the film Mission Mangal — in an overture to exaggerate this impressive Indian achievement — depicts the Mars exploration department as a rundown room with no people, just a solitary cat. Okay then.

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India’s first interplanetary mission, the Mangalyaan launch of 2013 was a triumph and made us the fourth space agency in the world to reach Mars. The facts are stupendous, but director Jagan Shakti decides to go fast and fictional, creating an underdog story that — while often likeable — plays out like a fable.

There are cute scenes, but it is worrisome that a film about several incredibly talented women constantly plays up their stereotypical womanhood more than their scientific acumen. These are scientists, not utterly inexperienced homemakers, and their epiphanies should not exclusively be based on examples like the frying of pooris and the hailing of auto-rickshaws.

Vidya Balan is wonderful as Tara Shinde, a scientist who must juggle her research with wifely and motherly duties. She gives the narrative a boisterous can-do spirit that is eventually well matched by Akshay Kumar’s Dhawan. Kumar is typically solid as he encourages these ladies to shine — he clearly wants this to be his Chak De India — but he is gifted too many of the best lines. Meanwhile the other actresses are given ‘types’ rather than characters. There’s the licentious one, the clumsy one, the pregnant one… It’s all a bit ‘Four More Shots Please: Science Edition.’

As the girl with the mousey hair, Taapsee Pannu does reliably well. Sonakshi Sinha is rather spirited, while fine actors like Nithya Menen and HG Datttatreya are sadly wasted. The problem with creating ‘types’ as underdogs — especially in a film that will largely be mistaken for real-life — is that while asking audiences not to judge these female characters, ironically enough the filmmakers have created them (and their quirks) by judging them.

Films about science have to simplify the subject — films about rocket-science doubly so — but here things are brought down to a regretfully basic level. So while there are times Mission Mangal plays out as a pleasant enough entertainer with a message, complete with a caricaturish villain (Dalip Tahil with an unholy accent) there are other times everything feels like too much of a stretch — even the runtime. The film becomes a saddening bore.

The Mangalyaan had stunned the world. American publications put out racist cartoons about this third-world nation knocking on the doors of their exclusive cigars-and-planets club. We were incensed, and rightly so. Now in Mission Mangal — starring Akshay Kumar (one of our least hidden figures) and a shiny tinfoil version of ISRO that often looks like a lavish backdrop to a Rajinikanth song — we applaud a Prime Minister who had very little to do with supporting the mission. The message is clear: We shall create our own cartoons, thank you very much. Make in India.

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'Mission Mangal' review: The magnificent MOM

A consummate vidya balan gives this space expedition a win over a patronising akshay kumar.

Updated - August 16, 2019 04:27 pm IST

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Statutory warning: looking for science, logic or facts here would be like searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack. That makes it easy for viewers like yours truly who have anyhow always been challenged when it comes to matters of physics, chemistry, mathematics and statistics. Also, for a more detailed and factual account — as opposed to this highly fictionalised one — of the ordinary lives of the extraordinary women scientists behind India’s mission to Mars it would, perhaps, be advisable to turn to Minnie Vaid’s book Those Magnificent Women and Their Flying Machines: ISRO's Mission to Mars.

• Director: Jagan Shakti
• Starring: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen, Kirti Kulhari, Sonakshi Sinha, Sharman Joshi, H. G. Dattatreya, Vikram Gokhale, Dalip Tahil, Sanjay Kapoor
• Run time: 133 minutes

With the nation’s conscience keeper Akshay Kumar at the helm and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech featured in a special appearance, the idea behind Mission Mangal quite clearly is to ignite our supposedly latent nationalism. India becoming the first Asian nation to reach the Mars orbit and the first in the world to do so, that too in its very first attempt and at a fraction of the requisite cost — it the kind of stuff that fires new India’s patriotic feelings. The film goes all out to celebrate the uniquely ‘Indian’ frugal engineering and innovative ways of fixing issues, of harnessing science for the pride of the nation. Just a small factual point to note in these times of WhatsApp forwards is that the mission was launched when Manmohan Singh was Prime Minister in 2013 even though the space probe started orbiting Mars in 2014.

However, the interest does not lie in such intricacies of the mission as it does with the oddball bunch of scientists behind it, with the eccentric Rakesh Dhawan (Akshay Kumar) and the jugaadu (an expert at hacks) Tara Shinde (Vidya Balan) at the helm. It’s a construct that is instantly reminiscent of a Lagaan and Chak De! India. A lot of these characters

and their lives remain half baked at the cost of the others. One would, for instance, have liked to see much more of a Varsha Pillai (Nithya Menen) and a Neha Siddiqui (Kirti Kulhari).

The CGI is basic to say the least, the writing swings between good, bad and indifferent. Some lines work, like “Naam mein Gandhi, kaam mein Quit India” (Gandhi by name, but Quit India by virtue), directed at a Ms. Gandhi who wants to leave the country and ISRO to work at NASA. But wordplay like NASA and SatyaNASA (destructive) is eminently infantile. The rocket science as opposed to home science — pooris and cushion covers firing up ideas — used in the ‘Mahila (ladies) Mangal Mission’ and a man trying to influence and convince a pregnant woman to join the mission, can get highly condescending. Being ‘just’ a mom is as good as being a mom on MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission), you feel like telling the male saviour. Let it be her choice, for a change.

On the flip side, the film showcases believable dynamics and negotiations of everyday chauvinism within Tara Shinde’s family that provides an instant, often amusing connect. A flustered, paranoid husband (Sanjay Kapoor), a rebellious but essentially good daughter and a son intent on converting to Islam just because he is called Dileep, after his idol A.R. Rahman’s former name. There is a kookiness to the elderly member of the mission, Ananth Iyer (H.G. Dattatraya), which is equally charming. It’s the instances of a certain self-aware goofiness and giddy light-headedness which reach out. Add to that, the over the top, adversarial NASA scientist Rupert Desai (Dalip Tahil) and you could find yourself smiling, albeit unintentionally. Ultimately it’s a consummate Vidya Balan who rises above everything else and, thankfully, makes Mission Mangal all about a good-hearted matriarch instead of a patronising patriarch.

Published - August 15, 2019 11:26 am IST

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Mission Mangal Reviews

Mission Mangal is watchable, if not always exhilarating, if you can get over its excesses.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2020

The film's tech talk is dumbed down to a laughable degree, with metaphors ranging from cooking to cricket supplanting anything approaching actual rocket science.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2020

Some merit can be awarded for technical competency and a game supporting cast but, otherwise, Mission Mangal is the most simplistically boring trip to Mars one could take.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2019

It's hard to make intelligence look entertaining. But it's harder to make intelligence look stupid. And yet, this is exactly what Mission Mangal manages to do.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2019

In between the gimmicky jugaad philosophising and meaningless sub-plots, Mission Mangal manages to devote some time to space technology...

Ultimately it's a consummate Vidya Balan who rises above everything else and, thankfully, makes Mission Mangal all about a good-hearted matriarch instead of a patronising patriarch.

Most of its shortcomings are overshadowed by the camaraderie shared by the cast.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2019

All-in-all, watch the film to savour a path-breaking milestone in India's space exploration history, never mind the scientific inaccuracies...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2019

It is impossible not to enjoy a movie like Mission Mangal, given the subject matter it deals with... One only wishes the makers had dialled down the theatrics and allowed the audience to quietly revel in the moment.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2019

Despite the ups and downs, this story does make you believe that dreams do come true, especially in the vast expanses of the outer space.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2019

The human interactions are the best part of the film. The downer comes from the science bits, clearly crafted for dummies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 16, 2019

The film becomes a saddening bore.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2019

The women do their bits to perfection.

Jagan Shakti's exhilaratingly schmaltzy fact-based drama about India's epochal launch of a Mars-bound satellite is a rousing crowd-pleaser.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2019

The film's casual sidelining of its actresses stands out, given how it deceives the audience into believing in its feminism while simultaneously making jokes at the expense of its women.

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Movie Review: Mission Mangal

Mission Mangal Devesh Sharma , Aug 14, 2019, 10:35 IST

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On November 5, 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its space probe Mangalyaan which has been orbiting Mars since September 24, 2014. It was India's first interplanetary mission and it made ISRO the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency. India also became the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit and the first nation in the world to do so in its maiden attempt. The present film is a fictionalised account of the efforts of the core team involved in the project.

Rakesh Dhawan (Akshay Kumar) is a mission director at ISRO. His last mission fails on take off and as a punishment he gets shunted to the Mars mission, he knows is at a pretty nascent stage and is never going to go past the planning stage. A fellow scientist Tara (Vidya Balan) finds a way to actually make it happen. She proposes going for a slingshot effect wherein the earth's gravitational pull will be used to launch the probe into Mars' orbit. They ask for a team of experts but what they get is a team of assistants to top scientists comprising Eka Gandhi (Sonakshi Sinha), a bohemian spirit who believes more in hookups than in marriage, Kritika Aggarwal (Taapsee Pannu), a klutzy woman who disappears in between to take care of her injured soldier husband, Varsha Pillai (Nithya Menen), a young wife who goes through pregnancy in between the mission, Neha Siddiqui (Kirti Kulhari), a Muslim girl divorced from her husband and going through separation related crisis, Parmeshwar (Sharman Joshi) a naive guy saving up his virginity for marriage and Ananth Iyer (HG Dattatreya), a scientist on the verge of retirement dreaming of visiting holy places in his free time. On top of that, their budget keeps getting slashed and is reduced to one-third of the original amount. With just 450 crores in hand, they make use of home economics, ingenuity, and huge leaps of faith to bring their dream to light...

Director Jagan Shakti and his team of writers R. Balki, Nidhi Singh Dharma, and Saketh Kondiparthi have written a screenplay which simplifies the scientific terms and calculations in a way the layman can understand. To a scientist, it all would look sacrilegious but the lay viewer is likely to be swayed by the drama. In this quest for simplification, they have taken several creative liberties which would fail close range scientific scrutiny but in the larger context of things these transgressions should be excused. There is no denying the fact that the actual scientists involved pulled off an improbable act and succeeded in putting up a Mars probe in the Red Planet's orbit in the first attempt itself. It's the spirit of their extraordinary achievement which is being celebrated in the film rather than the methods and formulae needed to achieve that. 

The writers have also made an attempt to acquaint us with the inner lives of the scientists involved. Vidya Balan, for instance, is shown to be a model wife and mom, expertly juggling the demands of both her work and career and it's her multi-tasker's acumen that solves so many problems for the mission. As the team consists mostly of women, it sorts of plugs for the fact that women are more dedicated and sincere to their calling. Akshay Kumar has taken a backseat and has let his female co-stars take centre stage. There is a scene where some ruffians rough him up in the metro but instead of him breaking into a fight, it's the women who beat up the baddies. 

Akshay and Vidya Balan share a great camaraderie and feed off each other to portray the perfect image of workplace spouses.  They have separate identities beyond the office but once inside it, they share the same vision and kind of finish off their sentences. Vidya is a natural as an affectionate wife to ever-complaining husband (Sanjay Kapoor) and two teenage kids, encouraging them to find their wings. Akshay is more like a conductor of an orchestra, making sure his musicians are playing in sync with each other and revels in his role. The rest of the ensemble cast too rise to the occasion and have done justice to their respective roles. They look and feel like members of a dysfunctional team gelling together at the right time. 

On the technical front, the CGI left much to be desired and so did the production design. The cinematography and editing were decent enough though. All-in-all, watch the film to savour a path-breaking milestone in India's space exploration history, never mind the scientific inaccuracies...

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'Mission Mangal' movie review: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan’s film is familiar and basic

Jagan Shakti’s Mission Mangal is strictly basic as a space exploration movie. It’s also cute and occasionally involving as a workplace dramedy. The question is: which film have you come to watch? For audiences mistakenly hoping to see Akshay Kumar shoot into space, the fun is scant. Even more doomed are those expecting a detailed historical document (a NASA-aspiring scientist in this film is surnamed Gandhi, only to round off a joke on ‘Quit India’). However, if you are down with the familiarity of the setup, and are willing to engage with these characters — despite the tokenisms and halted arcs — there might just be a surprise or two.

I found my clincher midway through the second half, and it came as far removed from rocket science as Earth from Mars. “Those were the days,” says Sanjay Kapoor, cameoing as the peevish husband of scientist Tara Shinde (Vidya Balan). In the previous scene, Sanjay, while attempting to out-cool his disco-hopping daughter, has just danced to ‘Akhiyaan Milaoon Kabhi’ — the hit song from his 1995 film, Raja. It’s a wistful self-nod in a seemingly stray scene, but it struck me as the most poignant moment of a film supposedly about greater things.

When a crucial mission fails, Rakesh (Akshay Kumar), senior scientist at ISRO, takes the fall. As punishment, he is handed over the insurmountable ‘Mars Mission’ — bureaucratic humiliation to have Rakesh quit by himself. Tara, cut up about a past mistake, joins Rakesh; together, they assemble a team and crack the idea of sending the most budget-efficient satellite to Mars. The significance of this mission is established early on, when a New York Times cartoon mocks India with a racist caricature. Rakesh, sketchpad in hand, proudly declares his allegiance. “Can’t depend on NASA for everything,” he says, “It’s time to make in India”.

Unsubtle government plug aside, Mission Mangal makes honest efforts to personalize its story. This happens partly through comic character introductions: the navigation expert can’t drive, the structural engineer is old, and the payload designer is a virgin. The heftier backstories belong to Kirti Kulhari, as a Muslim scientist unable to find a house, and Nithya Menen, as a married woman being pressured toward childbirth.  These themes help crystallize the main narrative, but, for the most part, are treated like sub-plots. There’s no need to pursue individual ‘social’ battles when a larger ‘scientific’ battle is at hand; the success of the mission, the film assumes, will expunge everything.

In resistance to Einstein, Jagan makes things as simple as possible, then simpler. Complex mechanisms are explained via culinary tricks. The home science sophistry amuses for a while, until the wit fades out. Even a 100-minutes in, we are still talking about masala dosa and curd rice. A fight scene in the Bangalore metro has the ladies do the thrashing, while Akshay gets his bum pricked. Dalip Tahil obliges as a cartoon villain, pulling a weird Bill Maher impression and remaining graceful at it.

The run-up to the launch is gradual and indulgent. As such, when the D-Day arrives, Jagan speeds things up. Almost a year’s journey is squeezed into a last-lap dart. I was largely unimpressed by the visual effects, which composites partial models onto CGI wholes. Composer Amit Trivedi sticks to Indian beats in the finale, instead of spacing-out. The real spectacle is kept earthbound, with Rakesh and his team shouting out orders and clicking into consoles. The suspense is non-existent, but the actors keep up.

There’s a duteous montage in the film saluting the stalwarts of Indian science: Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan, Abdul Kalam. Then a familiar voice cuts in and tells us how Hollywood lost out to ISRO. Mission Mangal is respectful and clear of heart, but struggles at times to pick out its heroes. If the answer is no one in particular, that signal is lost in space.

(This review originally appeared on cinemaexpress.com )

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Mission Mangal Movie Review: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan Deliver An Entertaining Account of a Complicated Mission

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Last Updated: August 16, 2019, 11:25 IST

Mission Mangal is enjoyable and entertaining. With Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan, director Jagan Shakti delivers a space movie that lifts off and frequently soars.

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Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen, Kirti Kulhari, Sharman Joshi, HG Dattatreya, Dalip Tahil, Vikram Gokhale

Director: Jagan Shakti

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, the popular adage goes. But Mission Mangal upends that idea with the story of a space mission to Mars propelled predominantly by female energy. The film is a fictionalised account of Mangalyaan, the ISRO Mars program that was launched in 2013 and which features headlining roles for the scientists – most of them women – behind that ambitious endeavour.

The mission was a moment of pride in more ways than one. India was the first country to crack a Mars mission in its first attempt, and at a budget of roughly Rs 454 crores, a fraction of the cost of other international space missions. Mangalyaan’s story, then, is ripe for the big screen. It is the blockbuster cliché – the underdogs who beat insurmountable odds. Helmed by first-time director Jagan Shakti, Mission Mangal is helped along by the star power of Akshay Kumar, but it is elevated by smart filmmaking, and a clutch of winning performances led by the excellent Vidya Balan.

This is a movie about space, scientists, facts and physics, but there is no dearth of emotion. Some of it is trite and there is manipulative pop patriotism – the sort you expect from an Akshay Kumar film. Yet Mission Mangal is more restrained in tone than the star’s recent outings like Kesari , PadMan , and Toilet: Ek Prem Katha . There are also genuine moments in the film when you laugh, and when your heart soars. Despite the formulaic arc, the makers deliver an entertaining account of a complicated mission.

Akshay plays Rakesh Dhawan, who heads the mission. This is a scientist who has dedicated his life to ISRO, with no time for distractions like love or family. After a failed mission, he is “demoted” to a Mars program, in the hope that he will take the hint and quit. In one of the film’s charming scenes, he walks into a dusty office in a deadbeat building at ISRO that has been allocated for the Mars program. An optimist who’s always ready with a joke or an old Hindi song, he pretends that the barren space is the Red Planet. As a clay water pot releases a trickle, and a stray cat jumps in through the window, he jokes that there is both water and life on Mars.

Akshay’s character is clearly the leader, but the brains belong to Tara Shinde (Vidya), who comes up with the idea of chasing the Mars dream with a low-cost rocket and satellite. This brainwave comes from the practice of frying pooris on a no-flame, a concept she cheerily demonstrates to ISRO top brass. Cleverly, but also a tad simplistically, the film employs accessible (and frequently eye-rolling) theories and concepts to explain the science of the mission to a lay audience.

And because desi films must have a videsi villain, we get NASA-returned Rupert Desai (Dalip Tahil), who assigns a ragtag bunch of juniors to the Mars program, unwilling to waste his best men for an impossible project. Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu, Kirthi Kulhari, Nithya Menen, Sharman Joshi, and HG Dattatreya make up the rest of the team, each bringing their respective backstory. Vidya’s is the best realised of the lot; she’s a wife and mother, juggling domestic responsibilities with her consuming passion for science.

There are some contrived bits, like one in which the team happily takes up brooms and brushes to spruce up their office while humming an upbeat song. Or a needless fight in the Bangalore metro, scripted presumably to turn the cliché of women as victims on its head. In fact, the makers cram a lot into the film – there are token pleas for inclusion, religious tolerance, and gender equality. The film could’ve been crisper and sharper without these distractions and might have come up at least 10 minutes shorter. But as frequently happens when you’re invested in a story or its characters, you’re willing not to sweat the small stuff.

There is some pandering at the end with a flashback of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulatory address in 2014. Perhaps the makers would’ve done well to have also included that the Mangalyaan project was announced in the year 2012 by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Of the cast, Akshay Kumar is reliably strong, bringing irreverence and humour to the proceedings, as if to make sure the film never becomes ‘too smart’. There’s also sound acting from the other actors, particularly Taapsee Pannu and Nitya Menen, and plenty laughs from Kannada actor Dattatreya. But it’s Vidya Balan who truly stands out, diving into her role of the impassioned scientist with full commitment. Vidya makes it convincing that her character’s ideas are fuelled by day-to-day life examples.

Ultimately, Mission Mangal is enjoyable and entertaining. Even the jingoism doesn’t feel entirely out of place. Director Jagan Shakti delivers a space movie that lifts off and frequently soars. I’m going with three-and-a-half out of five.

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Mission mangal movie review: akshay kumar brings obvious star power to the table in addition to some comic relief. he wisecracks his way through virtually every crisis. the actor resorts to excess in ill-advised ways..

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Taapsee Pannu, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Kirti Kulhari, Nithya Menen and Sharman Joshi

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Rating: 3 Stars (out of 5)

One of Indian cinema's first full-fledged space exploration dramas, Mission Mang al opens with a failed ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) mission. Project director Rakesh Dhawan (Akshay Kumar) - the character's name is a nod to the pioneering space scientist Satish Dhawan - faces an inquiry. He remains unfazed by the grilling.

Failure, Dhawan asserts, is a stepping stone and there can be no science without experiments and trials and errors. But one of his key team members, Tara Shinde (Vidya Balan), takes the setback very badly and hopes to be presented with a chance for a shot at redemption. Mission Mangal , co-written and directed by Jagan Shakti, centres on the turnaround that she and her mentor spearhead. The duo dreams big. They dream Mars.

But Mars may seem to be the last thing on Tara's mind when we first see her in a domestic setting. She balances home and work with amazing poise. One moment the lady is in the prayer room of a modest Bangalore abode seeking blessings from the Almighty, the very next she in the kitchen, ruing the fact that the maid has played truant for the day.

Tara, who is married to the feckless Sunil (Sanjay Kapoor), a nagging man who does little to make life easier for her, is a multitasking mother to two hyperactive teenagers, an inquisitive boy and a free-spirited girl. Both pose questions, but the supermom is always ready with a clinching riposte. She brings the same sangfroid to her role as an ISRO scientist.

Four other women of substance add weight to the team that Tara and Dhawan put together for an audacious Mars mission in 2010-2011. The audience is introduced in quick succession to lightweight satellite designer Varsha Pillai (Nithya Menen in her Hindi debut), navigation and communication scientist Kritika Agarwal (Taapsee Pannu), satellite autonomy specialist Neha Siddiqui (Kirti Kulhari) and propulsion engineer Eka Gandhi (Sonakshi Sinha).

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Each of these women has a life outside the mission lab located in a space that resembles a warehouse. Varsha's mom-in-law frets over the fact that she is no hurry to become a mother but her husband (Purab Kohli in a cameo) stands by her. Kritika is married to a soldier (Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub in a special appearance) who is hospitalised with injuries sustained in a conflict zone skirmish. The mishap throws her off for a while, but her husband gives her a pep talk strong enough to force her to leave his bedside and return to work.

Neha, struggling to come to terms with the shock of her husband having left her for another woman, struggles to find a home on rent owing to her religious identity. And Eka, a woman raised in an orphanage that gave her the Gandhi surname like it did every inmate because the Mahatma is the Father of the Nation, is bent upon securing employment with NASA.

The Mars project faces many hurdles, budgetary and otherwise, along the way. When Varsha reports that she is pregnant and might have to withdraw from the team, the never-say-die Dhawan, who has a Hindi film song to hum for every occasion, thinks up a name for the mission - MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission).

The agnostic mission director isn't the only man in the core team. He ropes in the hopelessly superstitious Parmeshwar Joshi (Sharman Joshi) and the ageing structural engineer Ananth Iyengar (H.G. Dattatreya), who decides that sending a satellite to the orbit of Mars is far more exciting than a retired life spent in undertaking pilgrimages.

All nicely set up, Mission Mangal is ready to soar into the stratosphere even as many questions hover over the film. How advisable is turning a serious science-themed drama into a populist entertainer complete with high drama and over-simplified plotting? On the evidence of what pans out on the screen, there can be no clear answer. Some parts of Mission Mangal do work; others don't.

The tussle that Dhawan's team has with a dismissive Indian-origin NASA scientist Rupert Desai (Dalip Tahil), who has been drawn back into the ISRO fold but only has jibes to direct at the votaries of the Mars mission, is meant to constitute the film's principal conflict point. Delivered with broad strokes that obviate the possibility of any nuance or subtlety to seep in, the clash between the power of native intelligence and the lure of expensive borrowed technology is unconscionably trivialised.

Akshay Kumar brings obvious star power to the table in addition to some comic relief. His character is the sole member of the MOM team who is never assailed by doubts. He wisecracks his way through virtually every crisis. The actor resorts to excess in ill-advised ways, not the least in a scene in which he makes a simulated phone call to A P J Abdul Kalam. In one scene, one of the scientists working on the project utters the word impossible. Dhawan flies off the handle and gives her a mouthful. The girl returns the next day with a solution to an intractable problem and the mission director cheekily takes credit for firing her up with his boorish behaviour.

The girls are infinitely more interesting and more believable than the character played by Akshay because they face a gamut of challenges and setbacks and yet keep their chins up. Each one of them, at different junctures of the film, is on the verge of quitting. But they hang in there for one shot at glory. At its business end, the film quickens it pace significantly and the drama of the launch after many anxious moments caused by bad weather in the Bay of Bengal and the subsequent course of the PSLV towards the mission of breaking through the Van Allen radiation belt and reaching the Martian orbit achieves fever pitch.

As most of the mission room commands, instructions and responses in the film's elongated finale are barked out in English, electronic media reportage is employed to simplify and explain the scientific jargon in Hindi although, in reality, there was no blow-by-blow, 24/7 television news channel coverage of the event, at least not to the extent that the film depicts.

Akshay Kumar in a still from Mission Mangal .

The cast of Mission Mangal has actresses that we love because of the choices they have made in their career - apart from Vidya Balan, who is terrific here, there are Taapsee Pannu and Kirti Kulhari. Wish they had more to do in the film. The two make every little opportunity they get count. Sonakshi Sinha, playing the rebellious Eka, is delightfully good, as is Nithya Menen in the role of the staid and steady Varsha Pillai. The five women outshine everything else in Mission Mangal - even the dramatic lift-off the PSLV.

This isn't Mission Magnificent. But it isn't Mission Mangled either. Mission Mangal is watchable, if not always exhilarating, if you can get over its excesses.

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Mission Mangal: Over the Top but Worth a Watch

The movie stars akshay, vidya, taapsee, sonakshi among others., mission mangal.

On 5 November, 2013, Mangalyaan was launched from Sriharikota by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). India managed to send its orbiter to Mars successfully, thus becoming the first Asian country and also the first nation in the world to do so in the first attempt.

Designed and developed by Indian scientists, there are many fascinating details about this incredible feat. The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, is one of the cheapest interplanetary missions ever undertaken, budgeted at Rs 450 crores. In fact PM Narendra Modi had even joked saying that the real-life Martian adventure costs less than the Hollywood film Gravity .

So, Mission Mangal itself has enough patriotic fervour, inspiration, drama and by Bollywood standards all it needed was Akshay Kumar to make it into a film

So, Mission Mangal itself has enough patriotic fervour, inspiration, drama and by Bollywood standards all it needed was Akshay Kumar to make it into a film, keeping in mind the kind of nationalistic subjects the actor has very consciously been a part of lately.

So there you have it – ISRO scientist Rakesh Dhawan (Akshay Kumar), who after a failed mission, is burdened with the task of heading the Mars Mission, something everyone in the department, including Dhawan, knows is almost impossible and is just a punishment posting. Things, however, suddenly look up when one of his Project Directors Tara Shinde (Vidya Balan) has a Eureka moment while frying ‘pooris’. Soon, a team of scientists is hustled up – there is Eka Gandhi (Sonakshi Sinha), Kritika Aggarwal (Taapsee Pannu), Neha Siddiqui (Kirti Kulhari), Varsha Pillai (Nithya Menen), Parmeshwar Naidu (Sharman Joshi) and Ananth Iyer (H.G.Dattatreya).

This isn’t the dark steely world of sci-fi but a more relatable, emotional story of a group of bright but relatively inexperienced scientists fighting all kinds of odds to achieve something no one thought was even possible - send our orbiter to Mars.

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Directed by Jagan Shakti, who has also written it along with R. Balki, Nidhi Singh Dharma and Saketh Kondiparthi, the tone of Mission Mangal ’s script is decidedly light and frothy. Jargon has been kept to the minimum. This isn’t the dark steely world of sci-fi but a more relatable, emotional story of a group of bright but relatively inexperienced scientists fighting all kinds of odds to achieve something no one thought was even possible - to send our orbiter to Mars. Notably, this mission was led by women scientists and in the film it’s when we focus on their individual stories that the narrative truly becomes engaging.

Vidya Balan is superb in the role of Tara, who effortlessly juggles between her home and family and is always ready with instant out-of-the-box solutions. Hers is one of the better written tracks where a chauvinistic husband (Sanjay Kapoor) and moody teenage kids are as much a challenge as ISRO’s ambitious Mars project. So compelling is the character of Tara that she deserves a spin-off movie of her own. In fact, the whole ensemble cast including Taapsee, Sonakshi, Kirti and Vidya’s on screen teenage son all come up with brilliant performances.

But the handling of this truly inspiring subject remains stubbornly “Bollywood-ish”. Sometimes it works in favour of the film.

But, the handling of this truly inspiring subject remains stubbornly “Bollywood-ish”. Sometimes, it works in favour of the film. For example, in one scene when Vidya asks her colleagues to remember the time when they first decided to become scientists, or the last 10 minutes where the background score gives its complete assistance to heighten the tension and keep us glued to the screens even when the trajectory of the story is well-known.

But, there are also times when this same drama robs the narrative of the gravitas that a subject of this nature deserves. The Mars Mission team dancing and singing while sprucing up their department floor, or Akshay Kumar’s eccentric scientist avatar where he mumbles Hindi film songs to not let one of his detractors, NASA returned scientist Rupert Desai (Dalip Tahil), get under his skin are some of the low points in the movie.

Still, for everything that Mission Mangal gets right, particularly the performances and the emotional quotient as the pictures of the real scientists who have helped make India a power to reckon with in space technology flash on the screen, the film deserves to be seen.

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How Scientifically Accurate Is Mission Mangal?

Off the bat, Mission Mangal is a tribute to ISRO, to Indian pride, and to nationalism. There is a constant undercurrent of patriotism throughout the movie, bursting out in small spurts. However, as India's first serious space movie, it comes out stronger than expected for its depiction of science and women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) in India.

A standout surprise in the movie is the scicomm or science communication. Without going into too much technicality, the movie manages to capture the primary challenges of going to Mars. The writers have done a good job of weaving in explanations of launch windows, orbital periods, and the earth-Mars orbital relationship. Orbital mechanics and orbit raising manoeuvres are explained simply and succinctly, with clever analogies that include everything from yo-yos to chai glasses and accelerating cars.

Akshay Kumar's character name deserves a touch of appreciation. Rakesh Dhawan is a well done tribute to India's first astronaut, Rakesh Sharma, and one of ISRO's earliest visionaries, Satish Dhawan.

The mission also seems to have been carried out entirely by a team of less than 10 people. Needless to day, nothing of the sort would actually happen within ISRO or any other space agency

The process of mission development in the movie also touches upon key points faithfully: the failed launch of the Chinese Yinghuo-1 Mars mission which gave India a much needed impetus to push for Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the need to lower size and weight, the use of aluminium and composite fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) body, the importance of crossing the Van Allen radiation belt that surrounds the earth and protects it, and the two ships that were sent to track the PSLV which don't normally find a foothold in the Mangalyaan pop-culture consciousness.

The film does deviate from the ISRO handbook a couple of times, such as referring to the nose cone of the rocket as 'fairing' instead of 'heat shield', the terminology that ISRO prefers, but that is hardly a worry. However, the film uses a liberal dose of dramatic license to depict how scientists and engineers come together to send a spacecraft to Mars. Engineers are shunned to a non-project after the disastrous developmental test flight (April 15, 2010) of the GSLV Mk-II. They are sent to work on 'Project Mars', which seems to just be a decrepit garage with a solitary cat. The characters who assemble are introduced as engineers but are constantly referred to as scientists throughout the movie. The mission also seems to have been carried out entirely by a team of less than 10 people. Needless to say, nothing of the sort would actually happen within ISRO or any other space agency.

The film also injects some drama into what happens in space. The orbiter is shown to be bombarded with space rocks and dust at one point, something that would nearly have destroyed the craft in real life. The movie also seems to imply that the orbiter gets into trouble but luckily comes out unscathed from behind Mars after a delay during insertion. But in real life, planetary science is all about numbers accurate to as many decimal points as possible, and we always know exactly what should be happening at any point in time.

There are also other subjects that have already instigated members of the scientific community and the internet. The common points of contention around scicomm as a field and ISRO as an entity also exist in the movie.

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First of these is sexism. For the most part of the movie, the gender stereotyping could be overlooked albeit not condoned. Most depictions of gender dynamics and sexism tend to be on a spectrum of intent, and Mission Mangal definitely tends more towards an attempt to normalise rather than perpetrate. The women of the movie are realistic and normalise traditional "vices" like drinking, smoking, and sex. They are surprisingly not vilified for it or made to change; they achieve successes as they are.

Even the puri-making scene which drew much ire when the trailer came out, and which subtly requests viewers to mindfully conserve fuel, could actually be overlooked once the full scene is shown: Vidya Balan's character starts making puris to demonstrate her idea, but then breaks out of it to hand the puri responsibility to Kumar's character and launch into an explanation of a Hohmann transfer.

Akshay Kumar's character states that the NASA mission MAVEN costs exponentially larger than the paltry budget requested by ISRO and equates them with the end objective of reaching Mars. But this isn't accurate.

There are some humorous references to religion and Tirupati, portrayed rather tactfully with characters always prioritising science over what a random priest says.

The movie also falls victim to the media narrative of how inexpensive an ISRO mission is as compared to a NASA mission. Akshay Kumar's character states that the NASA mission MAVEN costs exponentially larger than the paltry budget requested by ISRO and equates them with the end objective of reaching Mars. But this isn't accurate. Enormous costs can be justified only by enormous benefits. Mangalyaan was a tech demonstrator. It was a craft that was sent as an expensive experiment to first figure out if we could do the basics of interplanetary travel and orbital insertion well, before stuffing it with very costly scientific instruments. But with a record of not just inserting into orbits but also landing on surfaces, NASA's MAVEN carried far more sophisticated payloads and weighed twice as more, and intended to do plenty of new work at Mars.

The beauty of a story that depicts engineers clamouring together to send a spacecraft to Mars is that there is no need for a traditional good-bad binary. There already was a villain everyone needed to beat: time

Among multiple storytelling devices that simply didn't fit were the traditional NASA worship, and the traditional human villain of the movie. The caricatured NASA-return senior scientist played by Dalip Tahil, doesn't really seem to be involved in the project directly but has a lot to say about it, with no impact to the story. The beauty of a story that depicts engineers clamouring together to send a spacecraft to Mars is that there is no need for a traditional good-bad binary. There already was a villain everyone needed to beat: time.

But the visual effects depicting ISRO's rockets and Mangalyaan's journey to the Mars are quite stunning to the point of being rousing. The movie culminates towards the launch, and compresses the next 10-month journey into the very end. One missed opportunity here was glaring.

Orbital mechanics and orbit raising manoeuvres are explained simply and succinctly, with clever analogies that include everything from yo-yos to chai glasses and accelerating cars

Mangalyaan is the only spacecraft in orbit around Mars today that can take full global views of the planet because of its uniquely elongated orbit. The images the spacecraft captured before insertion captivated the world when they were released, and deserved to be shown and used.

Overall, Mission Mangal does a reasonably good job mixing the rushed narrative and forced drama with communicating curious, new, interesting science to the public at a point when everything astronomy is raging hot.

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Great movie very inspiring for students also, a movie also gives a message not to loose the hope, everything is possible

Judy 1840 Days Ago

Excellent movie. Inspiring tale of victory in the face of daunting odds. Reminds you that great things can be accomplished with great passion.

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Tara 1847 days ago.

Watched the movie in a special screening. Its a good movie. Some scenes give you goosebumps while the remaining get you boored. S

Amit Sharma 1848 Days Ago

One of the best Movie so far in indian history. Akshay Rocks, Vidya Rocks. R.Balki Rocks. missionmangal Isro rocks

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