Women equal to men, not weaker: R Balki

Producer-writer of "Mission Mangal", R Balki says they never approached the project with the idea of making it a film on "women empowerment" as he believes females are no less than men.

The filmmaker said the story celebrates extraordinary achievements of ordinary people.

The recently released film revisits India's historic Mission to Mars
"He has been living with this the idea of making a film on Mangalyaan for two years with five women. He developed many drafts but things never took off. He came to me and I said let me think about it. I did think it will be inspiring to do a story like this and we started work on it."
"It was challenging as a writer as I had to make a lot of scientific processes understandable by using analogies from everyday life and compare it to and weave it like a story. We also made sure it is not preachy, it is not like a documentary but is as an entertaining thriller."