Akshay Kumar attended the trailer launch of Mission Mangal alongwith his 5 leading ladies Vidya Balan , Sonakshi Sinha , Tapsee Pannu , Nitya Menon and Kirti Kulhari. Sharman Joshi was also present.
Of all the 150 films Akshay Kumar has done in his career, his upcoming film Mission Mangal is the one he is most proud of, said the actor at the trailer launch . Akshay said that before the movie all of them didn’t have much knowledge about Mars but slowly they came to know a lot, thanks to director Jagan Shakti who had brought this script . His sister is also a space scientist.This movie is based on true story when India had launched its first satellite to Mars.
Akshay said that Mangalyaan cost only Rs 450 crores while NASA spent more than Rs 6000 crore for American Mars orbiter. My film 2.0 had a budget of 500 crore and this was less than that, so we are so proud.”
Akshay plays the role of mission director Rakesh Dhawan and leads the initiative in the film. However, the actor says, “This film is about the women and it will always be.” The actor added that there was no question of saying no to such an offer and added, “Bringing five female actors together was such a difficult task. I had to do the film.”
All the ladies said they were totally pampered by akshay Kumar at the sets . He used to bring lunch and breakfast for them.
Mission Mangal is set to clash with John Abraham’s Batla House and Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor starrer Saaho this Independence Day, August 15. Talking about the same, Akshay said, “More films are being made and the date belongs to everyone whoever wishes to release their film on that date.” Akshay said that as John Abhraham has earlier said about their clash that , “Make some noise for the Desi Boyz”. He also has the same opinion.
On being asked about the same, Akshay said, “We have only 52 weeks in a year and more than 100 films are coming in a year. We are friends, so there is no problem in coming together with our films. Nobody should be blamed for it. Now 2-3 films are coming together. In the future, we will have even more films coming together.”
On being asked about his donation for the victims of Assam floods, Akshay requested his fans to stop tweeting about it and said, “I have a lot of money. A couple of days ago, I had seen a picture of a woman taking her child out of the house because of the floods. I felt so thankful that we don’t have to face all this.”
He also said that he believes in doing rather than just sitting and watching helplessly.
He also spoke about recent rift between between Media and Journalists. He said that media and Journalists go hand in hand and that both should respect and understand each other.
Akshay Kumar was totally enjoying the press conference and he was also seen entertaining all media and cast and crew present.
Producer Foxstar And Disney India urged the audience to watch this film with their family especially kids as it is educational and motivating movie for kids .
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