Canadian citizen and the face of Indian nationalism in Bollywood Akshay Kumar has released his fifth film on India’s Independence Day this year. Previous releases include Brothers (2015), Rustom (2016), Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017) and Gold (2018).
Headlining and co-producing Mission Mangal, Akshay Kumar plays the role of a senior eccentric ISRO scientist, Rakesh Dhawan (a hat tip to Satish Dhawan, after whom the space centre at Sriharikota is named), who is given the mission to Mars as a punishment posting for his failure to successfully launch the GSLV Mark III.
