"Tara Shinde Is Not A Superwoman", Says "Mission Mangal" Actress Vidya Balan

Bollywood is coming up with more women-oriented films now. Bollywood Queen Vidya Balan plays the role of Tara Shinde in the Project Director of the Mars Orbiter Mission in her latest release Mission Mangal.

In the interview with Indian Express, she has spoken about how the film debunked her perception of scientists, and why it would be unfair to not give prominence to Akshay in the film’s promotional poster.

Talking about her character Tara Shinde, Vidya Balan shared, "Even though Tara Shinde is a Project Director on the Mars Orbiter Mission, she is like any other professional woman in India who is handling home and work. She is passionate about her work. Her work is her identity, and she is fully committed to it.

She also handles home with as much dedication. So her balancing act is what appealed to me as all around me I am I seeing women like her. Almost all women constantly play this game, and if something goes wrong at home she is told that it is because of her not giving her best at home".

Vidya also said her experience being a scientist on-screen, "There is a general idea where people think that scientists must be nerds and they don’t laugh or must be speaking only in scientific terms. It’s not that! They are also just normal people with science as their profession.

I don’t know really what a scientist does. So for me, the learning was that they are not always too serious, don’t only talk about equations and theories and are also people who use ‘jugaad’ and creative solutions to solve a problem. Tara Shinde is not a superwoman. It is we who have these expectations from ourselves".

Talking about Akshay Kumar's prominence in the film poster, Vidya Balan explains, "It is finally the business of cinema, so I feel, as Akshay Kumar is the biggest star amongst us all, if having him more prominently on the poster of the film will bring more people to the theater, I am fine with that. As women get more and more success our faces will be equal. Some day maybe our faces will be bigger".