R Madhavan has made his directorial debut with the release of ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’ that hit the theatres on Friday, July 1. The film is a biopic of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan and comes off as a National Award and Oscar-worthy film.
Actor R Madhavan, with the release of ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’, has stepped inside the shoes of a filmmaker. Even though he said that he did not have plans to direct ‘Rocketry’, there possibly could not have been anyone better than him to tell the story of Nambi Narayanan and to showcase the hard work that scientists and aerospace engineers like him. The film finally hit the theatres on Friday, July 1, and has been released in multiple languages including Hindi and Tamil, among others.
'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect' is a biopic based on the life of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was falsely accused of espionage. It is also the story of all those passionate people who make their skills their spirits, push their families aside and put everything into work. And the story of those people who are stabbed in the back when the people around them see them rising. Rocketry is about how false espionage accusations against a man obsessed with his work and wants his country to rise higher while pushing him behind the bars and the country by many years in space research.
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This movie tells you that if Nambi Narayanan had not been imprisoned and his work on space science had not been stalled, then today ISRO would have reached different heights altogether. The story of Nambi Narayanan is such that it is astonishing to think that why no major film production company has made a film about it till now.
On the cinematic aspect, ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’ marks the debut of R Madhavan as a filmmaker. His debut project has got him appreciation at international levels. Not only has he excelled as a filmmaker, but Madhavan has surpassed the expectations by delivering possibly his life’s best performance to date. The film also stars actors Shah Rukh Khan and Suriya in cameo roles.
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The film 'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect' is not a film 'inspired' by a true incident. It is a document of a true incident of injustice done to a space scientist in the country. In every frame and every scene of the film, R Madhavan has tried to make it exactly the same as it happened with Nambi Narayanan. Meanwhile, take a look at people's reaction after watching the film:
One word review : Just pure emotion
Wow
Acting, Direction, Story everything is on the top
& cherry on the cake
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Stars
Go watch . has rocketed and rocked in his debut. To direct, produce and act in such a film needs real guts and total conviction. is for real. Go make it rock.
— Shyam Sekhar (@shyamsek)
Very good sci-fi movie about Nambi Narayanan. Worth watching
— sharat (@sherry1111111)
wow amazing movie,,, just nailed it and after 4 years rocked 4 🌟 out of 5
— Appu (@Kotresh57392792)
Rocketry, not a movie to be missed out in theatres. Go for it. Multiple watches guaranteed.
Rating 4.5/5