It must be noted that ever since the announcement of popular actor R Madhavan’s directorial debut, Rocketry: The Nambi Effect was made, the excitement was at its peak. The actor left everyone of us amazed with his amazing transformation as the ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan.
Meanwhile, a Twitter user wrote, “Nambi sir looks more smart... Hope Maddy will also accept it...” To which, the actor released an unseen pic of the scientist and captioned it, “AND far more accomplished.. no questions about that. You should see how he looked when he was young.. Hollywood actors including JFK would have got a complex , Smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyesSmiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyesFolded handsFolded handscheck out the the pic below. With his wife.”
For the unversed, Nambi Narayanan was in-charge of the cryogenics department at ISRO and was accused of selling some vital secrets related to Indian space technology to Pakistan. While he faced imprisonment for 50 days along with four other fellow scientists, in 1998 the CBI acquitted Narayanan of the accusations.
However, his legal battle continued for being wrongly framed in the case with false charges and in 2017 when Madhavan announced the film based on this case, a lot more focus shifted on the man. Though the people belonging to the state of Kerala were aware of Mr Narayanan and his achievements, with the announcement of the film it has created more curiosity and awareness about his life and achievements.
Recently Mr Narayanan was offered an additional compensation of 1.30 Crore by the Kerala Government to settle the two-and-half-decade-old spy case in which he was implicated by the state police. While in the year 2018, post the project announcement the Supreme Court ordered that his arrest was unnecessary and granted him an Interim relief of 50 lakhs. In 2019, Nambi Narayanan was also conferred with a Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award. However, there is still a lot more to be known about the man that Madhavan will bring out through his story on the scientist.
The biopic will feature Madhavan portraying Narayanan’s life from the 27 to 75 years of age. The shooting has been completed and the film is currently in the post-production stage. Stay tuned!