{"id":5226,"date":"2016-03-31T09:23:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2016-03-31T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:53:25","slug":"mission-mangal-movie-review-akshay-kumar-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5226","title":{"rendered":"Mission Mangal Review: An Infuriating Space Parody that Manages to Waste Five Actresses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u00a0\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>ith every <\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/india-pakistan-independence-day-special\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independence Day,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it\u2019s becoming more and more apparent that an Akshay Kumar film proclaiming its loyalty towards the country is a genre unto itself.\u00a0 At this point, Kumar feels less like an actor and more like an extension of the ruling government\u2019s promotional pamphlet, both onscreen and off it. Exactly a year ago, Kumar starred in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gold<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a biopic that chronicled the journey of the Indian hockey team winning its first Olympic gold back in 1948. In between, he did a worryingly \u201cnon-political\u201d interview with Narendra Modi where the actor was all too happy to only prod the Prime Minister about his sleep cycle and his affection for mangoes, weeks before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, he stars in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, another unimaginative film that aims to document how a team of ISRO scientists successfully launched a Mars-bound satellite in their maiden attempt in 2013. But since it is also an Akshay Kumar film, it is entirely unsurprising that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 loosely inspired by real events \u2013 forgets the titular \u201cmission\u201d that marked India\u2019s first interplanetary expedition, in order to become an excuse to exalt hyper-nationalism. It&#8217;s\u00a0 telling that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chooses to end with a speech by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/man-vs-wild-narendra-modi-bear-grylls-discovery-barack-obama\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Narendra Modi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where he brags about the success of the Mangalyaan mission, even though it was launched when his government was not in power.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Directed by Jagan Shakti (R Balki is credited as a co-writer and creative director), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is set in 2010 and opens at the ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru. After a botched rocket launch is carried out under the leadership of Rakesh Dhawan (Kumar), he is asked to lead a vague<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/mission-shakti-anti-satellite-weapon-asat-drdo\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mars Mission, <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which involves equipping India with a satellite that can travel all the way to the planet by 2022, as a symbolic demotion.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a feat that Dhawan, considers a flight of fancy, until Tara Shinde (Vidya Balan), a project director at ISRO convinces him otherwise. The rest of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> follows them bringing together a team of scientists, which include Ekaa Gandhi (Sonakshi Sinha), Varsha Pillai (Nithya Menon), Neha Siddiqui (Kirti Kulhari), Kritika Agarwal (Tapsee Pannu), Parmeshwar Joshi (Sharman Joshi), and Ananth Iyer (HG Dattareya), to execute the mission.\u00a0<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Directed by Jagan Shakti, <em>Mission Mangal<\/em> is set in 2010 and opens at the ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As is tradition with Bollywood space films, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">oversimplifies the intricacies of space travel with laughably awful cricket, cooking, and patriotic metaphors. To counter the widely-held assumption that India doesn\u2019t have a rocket powerful enough to travel the distance, Shinde offers a solution inspired from her kitchen: Just like she turns off the gas in the kitchen while frying puris in hot oil, she suggests that they turn off the fuel of the existing PSLV rocket at regular intervals to aid its flight. When the seniors at ISRO are unconvinced about the feasibility of the mission, Dhawan offers a rousing speech that implores that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/isro-satellite-scientist-traffic-mumbai-travel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISRO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> should take a leap \u2013 it\u2019s accompanied by Kumar literally leaping across the table. And, in one of the film\u2019s most ridiculous scenes, when the team loses contact with the satellite, a scientist decides to switch the controls on and off \u2013 like her husband did to her laptop \u2013 to re-establish contact successfully.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trouble with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is that it genuinely \u2013 and arrogantly \u2013 believes that it can get away by selling these theatrics as an explanation of the science behind the mission. According to Shakti\u2019s interpretation, a team of scientists just happened to make a satellite reach Mars through sheer force of trademark Indian innovation (more popularly, jugaad). In doing so, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joins the ranks of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/tanushree-dutta-nana-patekar-sexual-harassment-denial\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bollywood <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">space films that have no idea how to be one. It reiterates the worst clich\u00e9s: All important discussions and specific planning for the mission naturally happen offscreen and the team conveniently triumphs over every obstacle, including the laws of physics.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 70 percent of <em>Mission Mangal\u2019s<\/em> two-hour runtime is dedicated to everything \u2013 think unnecessary subplots, forced romance, a song and dance routine, a severe dose of Islamophobia, and even a Make in India plug \u2013 but in deconstructing the mission. It\u2019s a mark of impossibly dishonest filmmaking that doesn\u2019t even try to engage with its story and make it believable, choosing to only rely on the saleability of its premise and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/patriotism-in-my-veins-why-clerk-is-the-greatest-deshbhakti-film-of-all-time\/\">patriotism.<\/a><\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet even more infuriating is how <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shortchanges its women under the guise of progressiveness. For starters, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sexualises the female scientists who were the driving force behind the original Mangalyaan mission by casting younger, attractive actors to play them. Apart from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/tumhari-sulu-movie-review-vidya-balan-manav-kaul-indian-housewives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Balan,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who plays a caricaturish mother of two, none of the four women are accorded a proper role or screen-time; instead they appear in what can be best described as extended cameos armed with hackneyed backstories. Their presence in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fulfills no specific purpose for the mission either, save for pressing a few buttons or looking worried and the only way they&#8217;re distinguishable from each other is through the relationship they share with the men in their lives.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Mission Mangal joins the ranks of Bollywood space films that have no idea how to be one.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> faux progressiveness is at its brazen display during the introduction montage of its five female scientists: Pannu\u2019s Krittika is the bumbling scientist whose terrible driving skills are paraded as the film\u2019s comic relief. There\u2019s even a distasteful sequence where she is inexplicably made to grab the crotch of her driving instructor when he asks her to switch to fourth gear. Sinha\u2019s Ekaa is the film\u2019s token sexually promiscuous woman who smokes, swears, and sleeps around. Yet when she catches the fancy of Parmeshwar, a superstitious <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/virgin-girls-sealed-cold-drink-bottles-is-there-no-difference-between-indias-politicians-teachers-now\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">virgin,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the film promptly treats her as his property and romanticises his stalking.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kulhari\u2019s Neha fills in the film\u2019s Muslim quota (which is ironic, given that <em>Mission Mangal<\/em> mines Muslim-ness for cheap laughs as well) and Menon\u2019s Varsha is saddled with arguably the worst non-role: She is made to go through a pregnancy without a maternity leave, and obviously, there\u2019s a joke about her weight that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> proudly boasts as humour. This bizarre introduction montage is rounded off by Dhawan complaining to Shinde that their team is resembling a \u201cMangal mahila mandal\u201d and that he needs a man for company.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offensive gaze, which is proof that Bollywood is yet to understand how to write female characters, isn\u2019t new or even an exception. But the film&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. Yet for all its surface-level attempts at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/trending\/women-equality\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> equality,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the cluelessness of Shakti\u2019s gaze is further exacerbated by the fact that it strips off all agency from its five women. It\u2019s Kumar\u2019s Dhawan \u2013 the film\u2019s proverbial hero \u2013 who calls the shots, routinely talks over the five women, and ultimately takes the credit for the success of the mission. It doesn&#8217;t help that t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he film\u2019s climax, which sees the team guide the satellite to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/payal-rohatgi-jet-airways-bigg-boss-nasa-mars-india-youtube\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mars,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels more like a parody than fact. If <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is to be believed, interplanetary space travel is as easy as catching a Pokemon. It\u2019s a memo any Independence Day could do without.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akshay Kumar&#8217;s Mission Mangal joins the ranks of Bollywood space films that have no idea how to be one. 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