BOMBAY TIMES (January 20, 2015)

Apart from established heroines, Akshay Kumar has no qualms working with relative newbies like Tamannaah Bhatia in Entertainment and now Taapsee Pannu in Baby. When asked what prompted him to work with Taapsee, he said, “One shouldn’t judge a hero or heroine by experience alone. I’ve been blown away with many first time performers over the years, not just the veterans, so to share the screen with Taapsee was as rewarding as if she had been on our screens for years. She trained well for this film and has shown a powerful female side in a very male oriented film, so hats off to her. If all of us leading men worked with the same talented heroines over and over again, how would our industry ever grow? No one knows who the next Kareena Kapoor Khan or Katrina Kaif will be. It’s my duty to give back to this industry what was given to me.”