Rocketry

Rocketry The Nambi Effect movie review: R Madhavan makes you believe in the character, but the writing is stodgy, and the direction doesn't quite make up ...

And even though an attempt has been made to prevent the film from turning into a hagiography — in a tragic incident involving one of Nambi’s colleagues (Mohan), the former comes off as a hard-hearted pragmatist solely invested in getting the job done — the film keeps patting Nambi on the back. The characters who play Nambi’s collaborators in foreign lands are actors trying very hard to act — one particularly hilarious scene plays out somewhere in the USSR where Nambi and co. This makes ‘Rocketry, The Nambi Effect’ a somewhat patchy effort — effective in some parts, and over-the-top amateurish in others.

I kept looking for 'villains', too – among Nambi's renowned supervisor, Luigi Crocco (Vincent Riotta); Princeton peer, Yuri; NASA colleague, Barry Amaldev ( ...

And that is the main problem: not every story can be a compelling plot. It gets quite ‘jargon-ey’ at times – we constantly hear such things as “Viking Engine’s upper stability margin is less”, “Russia is in the violation of MTCR” – and the writing doesn’t convince us enough of Nambi’s ultimate goal as a scientist. It’s all the more bizarre because Nambi did have a few friends, and he continues to be friendly with them after he’s released. Several random subplots appear in the film because they either illuminate Nambi’s feats or look ‘cinematic’. As if that wasn’t enough, one of his colleagues recounts them for our benefit towards the end of the movie. Apart from a scene in a Princeton class, where Nambi points out the typo in a textbook and then gets derided by the professor (who calls him “Numbi”), the movie doesn’t suffer from pitiable insecurity so common to the subgenre. The movie details his scientific achievements in heaps: He first moves from studying solid to liquid fuels, then obsesses over the country’s first liquid engine, then a cryogenic engine. Even when Nambi proves the professor wrong later (of course), that scene is more funny than bitter. And then you spot the first chink; it comes via the death of his colleague’s three-year-old son. The one that examines a person’s life – finding grains of causality in the heaps of events – qualifies as a biopic. We meet a young Nambi, working under Vikram Sarabhai (Rajit Kapur), who gets a scholarship to study at Princeton University. Recent Indian biopics have trained us to look for clues – or inflection points – that reveal the film’s true intent. The daughter’s face is smeared with shit on a public road. Because the one that just tells a story resembles a Wikipedia entry.

Take a look at what the audience feels about the R Madhavan starrer Rocketry: The Nambi Effect.

For the unversed, the film journals Nambi Narayanan's life from his early days as a graduate student at Princeton University, till the time he was falsely accused of espionage as a scientist. Let us see what some of the moviegoers wrote on Twitter after watching the drama. The movie is off to a tremendous start.

Finally, Madhavan has made his debut as a director with 'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect'. The film has been released in theatres today, July 1. There were.

https://t.co/O5RrGW85wX— Nishit Shaw (@NishitShawHere) 1656663642000 The appearance is a treat for… #ShahRukhKhan’s appearance in #RocketryTheNambiEffect is for more than 30 minutes.

R Madhavan's magnum opus Rocketry: The Nambi Effect was released in theaters on Friday. · Rocketry chronicles ex-ISRO scientist Narayanan's life who developed ...

Rocketry is a one-man show and it's soaked in Madhavan's realistic and gut-wrenching portrayal of the titular hero. The film is really a tale of two halves—where parts work better than the whole. Despite its astronomically better and emotionally moving second half, Rocketry finds it difficult to grasp the possibilities right in front of it. The "espionage" part is laced with effective performances but falls prey to a rushed screenplay. So much so that you might be left wanting to revise all scientific terminology learned in schools/colleges. This also lent the film a messy, cluttered feel—as if it were a documentary or an episode of How It's Made. Rocketry brings to the fore the life of a maverick scientist who refused a high-paying NASA job to focus on ISRO instead.

The actor produces, directs, writes and stars in the biopic based on an Indian scientist who was accused of espionage.

The kind of patriot who come to do their every day knowing very well that nobody will ever come to know about their sacrifice, or their achievements. “I still remember the first day of the shoot my wife telling me I couldn’t have made a more stupid decision.” The actor also went to extraordinary lengths to ensure Narayanan's transformation from age 29 to 79 was as authentic as possible. “But there's another type of patriot who puts their life on the line every day. So I just decided to put my money where my mouth is and produce it myself,” Madhavan says. He had tears in his eyes and told me ‘If you Google my name, all you’ll see is stories about me being a spy’.

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect has been written and directed by R Madhavan. He also plays the lead role of Nambi Narayanan, Head of ISRO's cryogenics division ...

For those who don’t know, he was one of the finest debaters and a true patriot,” Vivek wrote. From the bottom of my heart, I wish this happens and I am sure it will happen because@ActorMadhavanis one of the most honest actor. Foe those who don’t know he was one of the finest debaters and a true patriot.

So, this film is special to him for more reasons than one. It is based on the life of Nambi Narayanan, a former ISRO scientist and aerospace engineer, who was ...

Minions: The Rise of Gru, which also hit the screens on Friday, is expected to collect Rs. 75 lakh, while Rocketry will mint Rs. 55 lakh. According to The Indian Express, trade analyst Girish Johar anticipated that Rocketry is "bending towards a niche audience, and it might not be a hardcore commercial film." Johar told News18 that Rocketry might touch Rs. 1cr in the Hindi belt on its opening day, while its competitor Rashtra Kavach Om starring Aditya Roy Kapur will collect Rs. 2-3cr. Trade analysts guess that Rocketry might turn out to be a successful venture like The Kashmir Files, which also benefited from word-of-mouth advertising. Accordingly, it is anticipated that the film will largely benefit from word-of-mouth promotions. He added that the movies will make smaller businesses at the box office.

Helmed by R. Madhavan, the multi-lingual film is a gripping narrative about the highly eventful life and times of rocket scientist and Padma Bhushan awardee ...

Fast forward two decades, and Narayanan is being interviewed by a TV anchor (an unimpressive cameo by Shah Rukh Khan), and the story of the scientist is revealed in flashback. But there is no other side to the man, except that he was a genius and an unfortunate victim of circumstances, triggered by self-serving personal agendas of state and non-state actors, that cost him his directorship at ISRO. Helmed by R. Madhavan, the multi-lingual film is a gripping narrative about the highly eventful life and times of rocket scientist and Padma Bhushan awardee Nambi Narayanan who headed India's historical mission to Mars (Mangalyaan) and also helped the nation develop some of its first cryogenic engines.

Vivek Agnihotri has tweeted praising R Madhavan for his film Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. Released on Friday, the biopic has been predicted to grow via word ...

The Hindustan Times review of the film read, “Audiences might not categorise Rocketry: The Nambi Effect as a mass commercial potboiler and only fit for festivals, but it's time you set yourself free from these expectations for this film is definitely worth all your time and money.” Eventually, it became one of the first Bollywood films to cross the ₹300-crore barrier during the pandemic. For those who don’t know he was one of the finest debaters and a true patriot.”

(Note: This is a review of the Hindi version of Rocketry. The film was simultaneously made in Tamil, Hindi and English with some differences in the cast.) The ...

It need not have been considering how melodramatic the truth itself is and the advantage this part has of being the part of Narayanan’s story that has been widely covered by the press and thus cannot be brushed aside as probably being the man’s own rose-tinted view of himself, unlike his litany of feats, virtues and deshbhakti that precede it. Besides, the choice of dubbing voices for the non-Indians in this film are a decent match. It would be unfair to judge any of the remaining actors by their thinly written roles in this film, but the always-wonderful Simran does manage to make a mark despite being stuck on the margins through most of the plot. As put off as I was by some of the stretched out, maudlin post-interval scenes, I confess I could not help tearing up too, knowing that an actual human being and his family went through this hell. To be fair, the format does make it clear that this is Narayanan’s own account of himself. He mines it here to pull off Narayanan’s blend of cockiness and likeability in the first half, but must explain why, at 52, he wants to pull off the role of a 20-something and 30-something youngster, which is what Narayanan is through a considerable length of Rocketry – this rivals 44-year-old Aamir Khan and 39-year-old Madhavan playing teenagers in 3 Idiots (Hindi, 2009). The makeup department does an impressive job of turning Madhavan into a likeness of the elderly Narayanan though. In Rocketry’s case, white people of the Western hemisphere are easily outwitted, deceived (the French particularly so) or charmed by brainy, enchanting Indians as exemplified by Narayanan himself. A star of Tamil and Hindi cinema, Madhavan has often used his naturally innocent appearance to good effect. Rocketry’s deshbhakti is not the kind currently in vogue in Bollywood (possibly because it is not a Bollywood film, but has emerged from the Tamil film industry): it is not hate-filled, anti-minority or intentionally divisive. Maybe he genuinely is/was all the above, but Rocketry does not make any of these characteristics convincing. The true story of rocket scientist S. Nambi Narayanan is as sensational or perhaps more so than any fictional tragedy that could emerge from a film scriptwriter’s imagination. What is obvious from the film, however, is that even extraordinary realities can be reduced to ordinary cinema when subjected to average treatment.

updated: Jul 02 2022, 10:19 ist. Madhavan plays ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan.

The police case, third-degree torture and subsequent unrest in family are more relatable than the amateurish first half, where the hero flies to Princeton University on a scholarship and charms the entire class, the professor and the professor’s wife too. A more imaginative direction would have given more legitimacy to the drama. Anyone who read the papers in late 90s in Kerala vividly remembers the Isro case, with reams written about the “traitor” who sold secrets to Pakistan after falling into a honeytrap.

In India, R Madhavan's Rocketry: The Nambi Effect has got a good advance booking for the weekend.

The Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta gave the movie a 2.5-star rating. The film has been receiving a lot of accolades from the international arena as well, so that is looking positive. In the USA, the film was the top performer among the Indian releases. “The buzz is quite good and positive, specifically down south. In Malaysia, the film made an entry into the Top 10. Bala tweeted, “@ActorMadhavan’s #Rocketry has opened with best reviews and WOM..Multiplexes adv booking looks good for this weekend..”

R Madhavan's film Rocketry: The Nambi Effect released in the theaters on July 1. It recorded a rather dull opening.

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is a biopic based on the life of ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was falsely accused of espionage. Filmed simultaneously in English, Tamil and Hindi, Rocketry premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2022, and was theatrically released on July 1. His directorial debut, Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, hit the theaters on July 1.

Rocketry feels like it could be our very own The-World-is-Not-Enough-meets-A-Beautiful-Mind. However, that is not the story Madhavan is going for.

It speaks of how even during the darkest times, trust in the goodness of people and the judiciary helps. But the writing around these portions keeps us invested in the success of these missions and not about what the mission is all about. For one, there is a striking dissonance in the Tamil dialogues, and it doesn’t feel organic. However, Madhavan doesn’t just want to concentrate on the humiliation suffered by Nambi and his family at the hands of the power structures and people in the country. The narration moves back and forth to reintroduce us to the life and times of Nambi Narayanan, a stubborn rocket scientist, whose only aim in life was to put Indian rocket science on the global map. This is intercut (editor Bijith Bala employs a smart editing style in the film) by the country waking up to the news of Nambi’s alleged treachery.

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect box office day 1 collection: R Madhavan's film opened at ₹65 lakh nett. The film stars Madhavan in the lead role as ISRO ...

The film also features Phyllis Logan, Vincent Riotta and Ron Donachie. Madhavan essays the role of Nambi Narayanan in the film. - Rocketry: The Nambi Effect box office day 1 collection: R Madhavan's film opened at ₹65 lakh nett. The film is based on the life of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was falsely charged with espionage in 1994. Apart from Madhavan, actors Shah Rukh Khan and Suriya are also part of the film in cameo appearances. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, the maiden directorial venture of actor R Madhavan, has collected ₹65 lakh nett at the domestic box office on day one of its release. Rocketry chronicles Nambi Narayanan's early days as a graduate student at Princeton University, before exploring his work as a scientist and the espionage allegations against him.