Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Movie Review - A Must Watch Biopic
It is wonderful and admirable that R. madhavan is the star of this film, authoring the screenplay, the language, performing in it, and directing it. The gargantuan effort in this case is not merely crafting a tale and adapting it for the big screen; rather, it is to defend his ongoing existence and pay him the reverence that his nation failed to do for years and instead showed him great injustice.
So what precisely does Rocketry: The Nambi Effect do? Are we travelling the Theory of Everything path or the Shakuntala Devi path? None; we're following Maddy's lead. The actor has immersed himself so deeply in this source material that he comes dangerously close to writing Narayanan a love letter. But he takes care to avoid making a flowery or deceptive move. Maddy leaves behind some rough edges—but also some that are crucial.
The life of Nambi Narayanan was intended to be a narrative. Even the stand-alone episodes of his work and personal journey are so fascinating and deserved to be told; of course, there must be alterations and amendments made to the chronology of events.
Madhavan starts this narrative on the darkest day of his life—the day he was wrongfully detained. The film's narrative spans over three decades, from the year 1969 to the year 2020, when he was finally given the justice he deserved. Science, friendships, family, trauma, and life with its challenges are interspersed within this. madhavan ensures that you experience it all.
He doesn't oversimplify the world of scientists, which is what I find to be effective. The language and scientific terms will make those who have never opened a physics textbook feel strange, and you deserve it (not in a bad way). It only enhances the experience and brings home just how brilliant these minds are. After his moon mission, Neil Armstrong, APJ Abdul Kalam, and vikram Sarabhai all appear in the script without being given any additional context. Given that you've sort of studied them, you should be familiar with them.
In order to shape Rocketry, R. madhavan has gone outside his comfort zone, and there is no way that he could have allowed anything to go wrong, at least from his end. The actor must portray multiple ages, and he succeeds in making us believe and care about the outcome. You can see him exerting himself despite having some heavy prostheses. He deserves to be noticed because Maddy is putting up one heck of a show.
Simran portrays Meena, the wife of Nambi Narayanan. For want of a better phrase, the actor is great in all respects. Nambi conveys the depth of the family's suffering even in the most catastrophic circumstances where she maintains her composure.