Mission Mangal: Taapsee Pannu & Director Jagan Shakti Open Up On Akshay Kumar’s Poster Controversy!

Ever since the poster of Mission Mangal was released online it garnered mixed reactions from the audience. The main issue behind the criticism was that Akshay Kumar was given a greater space in the poster than the female stars- Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Nithya Menen. Now Jagan Shakti, who is making his directorial debut with this film, spoke on the same.

In an interview with PTI Jagan said “You are going to have that because when you have seven to eight stars you are bound to have such a poster. But it is everybody’s story and everybody brings in the crowd. In the writing every role is strong.”

When asked about the casting of the film, the director revealed, “I am blessed, I have no complaints. I narrated him and he loved it. It was a blessing for me to have Akshay in my first film itself. I approached Vidya ji, I knew her when I was working on ‘Paa‘ (as an AD), I have also worked with Sonakshi on two films – ‘Akira‘ and ‘Holiday‘.”

“I approached them because I knew them well. Maybe the script was strong that everybody agreed to be part of the film.”