Mission Mangal: Even Before Starting, This Akshay Kumar Starrer Gets Into A Legal Trouble

Superstar Akshay Kumar, who is geared up for his next sci-fi biggie 2.0, recently announced his upcoming project, Mission Mangal. The actor also made it official that the movie to arrive on Independence Day, next year thus clashing with John Abraham’s Batla House. Now, per the latest reports flowing in, the movie has hit the roadblock.

As reported by Mid-Day, US-based filmmaker Radha Bharadwaj has filed a lawsuit in Mumbai on Wednesday, seeking to halt the production and release of Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan starrer Mission Mangal.

Bharadwaj alleged that producer Atul Kasbekar and his production house Ellipsis Entertainment shared her script based on India’s Mangalyaan mission, with Vidya Balan in 2016, who is now doing the movie based on same topic (Mission Mangal) under R Balki’s production house. Bharadwaj has claimed that it is the violation of the copyright of her screenplay, she shared with Kasbekar.

Filmmaker Radha Bharadwaj registered the script in the US Copyright Office in 2016 and completed the shoot for the film based on it, Space MOMs. Her lawyer Shrishti Ojha stated, “There are hundreds of ways to tell the story of Mangalyaan, but Radha came up with the angle of focusing on the women engineers working on the mission.” The lawyer further added that Bharadwaj was to work with Kasbekar and even signed a non-disclosure agreement, prohibiting the production house from disclosing her script.