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Mission Mangal is sure to win accolades, acclaim, awards and box-office rewards! Jagan Shakti hits a boundary in his very first #Hindi attempt. An outstanding story narrated with ferocious enthusiasm!

Mission Mangal may be a fictionalized account of true events but Jagan Shakti's story ensures it does not transform into a documentary that focuses completely and absolutely on the incidents. The director makes sure that it not only enlightens but entertains as well. Bravo!

While the enthralling drama catches your attention, the execution of the written material, besides proficient performances from each and every member of the cast, makes Mission Mangal a game changer. Many might not be aware of this case, hence, the novelty factor is also there.

R. Balki, Nidhi Singh Dharma(first movie as writer), Jagan Shakti & Saketh Kondiparthi's screenplay blend science & entertainment effortlessly and their dialogues are sure to bring the house down. However, there's no doubt that some scenes are exceptionally scripted. Double thumbs up!

Mission Mangal's layered script - a central Mangalyaan theme topped with the second layer of women empowerment/characters' personal issues and the icing on the cake is nationalism running throughout with humour - shows Jagan Shakti's level of maturity in his very first endeavour.

Akshay Kumar does complete justice to his character. Once the narrative seizes your attention, he brings alive his character and you don't draw parallels subsequently with any other role. Vidya Balan is splendid, especially in the first half, & shows effortless acting prowess! You cannot take your eyes off Sonakshi Sinha. She gets to deliver a knockout performance. Taapsee Pannu utilises to the maximum the screen time that is offered to her. Watch out for her in the penultimate scenes. Harihar Gundurao Dattatreya aka Dattanna is delightfully brilliant. Kirti Kulhari again delivers a rock solid/relatable performance. Sharman Joshi is outstanding from start to end. The length of Nithya Menen's role may not be much but she registers a strong impact nonetheless. Dalip Tahil's mannerisms and dialogue delivery are exemplary. Sanjay Kapoor is the surprise package of the film. Post interval his transformation would be greeted with claps & whistles. Purab Kohli and Md Zeeshan Ayyub help tremendously in the progress of the film.

Amit Trivedi's music/background score elevates the mood of the film. Ravi Varman has done a magnificent job with the camera and captures the essence of Mission Mangal with flourish. Chandan Arora's editing is razor-sharp at most times, but could've been spruced up during some portions. The VFX by Famulus Media and Entertainment is top notch.

Mission Mangal easily ranks amongst Fox Star Hindi, Hope Productions & Cape Of Good Films finest films. Do yourself & your family a favour: Watch Mission Mangal. It's emotional, entertaining, enlightening and it makes you want to stand and applaud in the theatre towards the end.

MISSION MANGAL - With this film my unsatisfactory run continues on with 'True story based movie starring Akhsay Kumar in lead' including Airlift, Rustam, Toilet - Ek Prem Katha, Gold and Kesari with PADMAN being the only exception which i liked a lot.

This one is not your usual fact based movie (like almost every other true story starring Akshay). Because even if you don't know all the facts about the Mission (just like me), the way things happened in the film you can easily judge that No-Way in reality things would have happened in this way. So first suggestion would be Watch this movie with a lot of GRAIN OF SALT. For comparison i would say 'Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran' was a better movie made in a realistic and fact based way.

But this movie is nowhere bad or anything. Its a decent entertainment. Infact some may like it a lot or even love it, who just want to get entertained doesn't care much about to know the realistic ways of working in ISRO or doesn't mind OVER-SIMPLIFIED science. This movie makes you feel like the Mission was so easy to accomplish and the ideas were so easy to come by. For example in one scene Sonakshi's character just utters the word "Its Impossible" upon which she gets an Angry speech from Akshay to do her job rightly. And the next morning she came up with the idea to solve the problem. Its like the scolding was the magical thing to open a Scientist's mind.

Nevertheless, some things which i really liked are the portrayal of Women in the movie and the role reversal. There have been uncountable movies where we see Men doing important jobs and wife being at home sometimes being supportive and sometimes not. That role is totally reversed here. Which i really loved. It makes you realize that in this predominate world were it has been made Universal Rule that its just Mother's Job to nurture there child (Dialogues from a husband to her wife like - tumhe to bas job ki padi hei, bachon tumhare bigad rahe hein & ETC) how difficult it is for working Women to manage Work with Home. Much more difficult then its more Men.

Vidya Balan is in the front and center of the film. Infact i think its not Akhsay who should have been the big face on the Poster, rather it should have been Balan. I mean seriously , she literally had longer screen time in the movie then Akhsay. But you know Akshay Kumar sells ticket, so that,s that. But thankfully Women in this film got great characters, and i mean each and everyone. And every actress did really good job with her character even if some of them didn't got enough screen time.

The Direction in comparison is not so perfect. Again its not bad at all , rather the First Time director shows that he has good hands to control a film but he also shows that right now he is a little inexperienced. He couldn't made the scenes tighter, couldn't raise enough excitement which could have made this movie better. In comparison he handles the funny scenes pretty brilliantly.

The movie is long. And it takes almost 60-65% of the movie to finish for the actual mission to start.

It was just too Bollywoodised. The science was too simplified. the tension was not there. Rather it was a fun movie. And i didn't wanted the movie which was based on one of the Biggest Achievement of my Country to be just a 'FUN MOVIE'. I wanted it to be something more then that.

7.1/10

By ANuP APu KuMaR

Why do you have to prepare for IIT when you can't even write class tests properly. Just because your parents can afford the coaching fees, it doesn't make you and IIT aspirant. You need to have the vision, intelligence, need, urge lots of things to be one. Coming to the he movie context Akshay Kumar with his team has taken Indian audiences for granted. They think they will churn out idiotics in name of nationalism and patriotic that has nothing to do with a good cinema and will make hugeoney and name as well. Back to back similar nationalism in movies with over dose of entertainment and we have this mangal mission. When I saw the trailer, I felt insulted today he core. My brother in law works in DRDO and I have been there and I see and know how it feels to be an engineer and a scientist working on such mission critical assignments. This movie was and is a joke on scientists. Look at the characters, Sonakshi Sinha, Vidya balans acting and mannerisms straight from her Shanti amla hair oil set, Akshay Kumar, straight from padman set. Look at the cinematography, the colors on screen, the script, the rest of th crew and the vision of director. Songs....are you serious? I left in Midway and came back as my office teammates asked to sit and end the torture so that we could go to a pub after this grave insult. Space and science movies with dose of comedy, songs and unwanted scenses and dialogs. These kind of movies make the whole world.think upon us about the vision and ideas we have in terms of creativity. Utter rubbish and disgrace to the team of Mars mission who were involved in the movie.

Bollywood can't even make a proper horror movie, forget about epic ones. They took this topic and made it into a joke, just to make money as it's still in our minds and public will take it as chandrayan 2 is still fresh. This is not cinema, this is clickbait and just to make Akshay and his team rich as fast as it can. Pathetic.

Bollywood stuff, seeing the scientist dancing to the tunes in order to clean their so called office. I simply do not understand what prompts them to make a film out of such a beautiful theme. 1. Whats the need of the Muslim Character who is searching an apartment and could not find one due to her name? ( Any connection with the film.. No, its just a way to say look whats happening in India , despite we are becoming a super power)

2. A son of Main Scientist Vidya Balan, is now converting to Islam as his role model is A R Rahman, so artist have religions ...:)

3. Indian scientist could do so much things, but they could not find that during the launch time, there would be huge chances of rains and thunderstorm. But hold on,.. it waste some time waiting and then finally Sun came out of nowhere and whack we have a launch

4. Indian scientist believe in Switch off and switch on theory.. when there was no connection with the Mangalyaan, one scientist simply switched off the entire control centre and whack what we find, yes the Mars craft connection started ..:)

5. Hold on, the biggest fudge.. they sent the marscraft and they didnt knew that there would be a communication failure for some time, but before that they couldnt measure the trajectory..

6. The production value is too cheap, the control center never looked like a control centre, Mangalyaan doesnt look like a mangalyaan, it looked like some cheap graphics editor.

See this film doesnt talk sense about science at all. Do talk about science all the while to make their audience believe that they only understand 'puri' logic.

Expectations with the film have gone wild with the wonderful theme.. and so precise effort of our scientist has been downplayed

Akshay kumar leads a group of less than top notch scientists in an attempt to get a satellite orbiting around mars . ok. this is a feel good, by the numbers kind of thing. it's still fun to watch and akshay is his usual right man for the job.