Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut who often makes headlines owing to her strong takes on Bollywood and modern-day cinema recently hailed industry-mate Akshay Kumar for promoting woman-centric films. Drawing reference to Akshay Kumar's recent outing 'Mission Mangal', Kangana Ranaut reportedly said that 'Mission Mangal' was essentially was a film celebrating a women scientists' achievement. However, she said that Akshay Kumar deserves undoubted credit for bringing se films to forefront, which orwise 'never get okay-ed'. 

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Kangana Ranaut furr spoke about how atre-goers often do t see much potential in women-centric films and said that because of lack of encourment of producers, those films often limelight. However, she hailed Akshay Kumar for always choosing films which were relevant and lending ir star power to 'Mission Mangal'.

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Mission Mangal

Akshay Kumar's latest outing 'Mission Mangal' which released on August 15, this year, emerged as his biggest opener. film celebrates success of ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) which made India first country to launch its satellite in Mars' orbit in first go. Apart from Akshay Kumar, film also has an ensemble female star-cast of Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Kriti Kulari and Nithya Men. 'Mission Mangal' is produced by Cape of Good Films, Hope Productions, and Fox Star Studios.

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On professional front

Akshay Kumar 

On professional front, Akshay Kumar has a number of films in pipeline for release. He will be starring in upcoming venture, 'Housefull 4', 'Good News',  'Laxmi Bomb' and Rohit Shetty's 'Sooriyavanshi'. Moreover, on occasion of his birthday, Akshay Kumar has confirmed that he will be donning warrior hat for his next historical drama titled 'Prithviraj'. film will reportedly revolve around First Battle Of Tarain led by Chauhan. It is expected to go on floors by vember this year. biopic will be shot in Mumbai and Rajasthan.  actor unveiled teaser and first look of film and informed that period film will be directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi and will release on Diwali 2020. 

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Kangana Ranaut

Meanwhile, on work front, Kangana Ranaut's latest outing 'Judgementall Hai Kya' has hit atres on July 26 and was widely appreciated by audience and critics. film also starred Rajkummar Rao in lead. Meanwhile, Kangana Ranaut is gearing up for  upcoming biopic of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa where she is all set to essay lead role. Kangana Ranaut will be next seen in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's 'Panga' and acton film 'Dhaakad'.