New Delhi, July 23 -- India may have taken the historic step to launch its second moon mission Chandrayaan 2 but Indian cinema has long chosen to remain shy of the space and science fiction genre. Mission Mangal, based on the story of scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation who contributed to the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary expedition, is slated for release this Independence Day. But the Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan and Taapsee Pannu-starrer is only one of the handful of science fiction dramas the country has produced, even as it continues to endorse Hollywood spectacles like the Star Wars franchise films, Avengers, Avatar and so on....