Akshay Kumar fans are looking forward to August 15 when they'd be able to watch their favourite superstar onscreen again in Mission Mangal, a space mission film. Based on ISRO's Mars Orbiter mission that took place in 2013, Mission Mangal also stars Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen, Kirti Kulhari and Sharman Joshi in pivotal roles. 

Now, in an interview with Mumbai Mirror, Akshay Kumar has spoken about his first tryst with science as a kid, and we couldn't be more awed about the actor's curiosity as a child. He told the publication about the time his father bought a transistor radio. He recalled, "He paid Rs 175 for a shiny red transistor. I was five years and having a radio was a big thing at the time. I would listen to songs on it. A few days later, I showed him a black circular object that I had discovered. It would stick when I threw it at the cupboard. He said, 'That's a magnet. Where did you get it?' I told him that I had taken it out of the radio. I thought I had made a scientific breakthrough, till my dad told me that I had damaged the transistor. That was my tryst with science as a kid."