Vidya Balan talks about 'male hero-led' films 'bombing terribly'; says 'Mission Mangal is seen as an Akshay Kumar film, which is very unfortunate'

Prolific actor Vidya Balan is also known for being blunt enough to call spade a spade. This time too the actress didn't mince her words while talking about 'female-led films' and gave an example of 2019 film 'Mission Mangal' being called as an Akshay Kumar film, while it also had 5 female actors including the actress herself. During her recent interview, Vidya said, 'The pandemic has become an easy excuse for people to say that now female-led films will not work in the theatres, because basically, our industry is going through some kind of flux where a lot of our films are bombing, terribly. And they are your so-called, male hero-led films.' She added, 'For example, even a film like 'Mission Mangal', which did great business, finally it will be seen as an Akshay Kumar film, which is very unfortunate. It’s not Akshay Kumar and five other leading ladies, because we’re not being seen as having led the film in any way.' For more news and updates, stay tuned to ETimes.