Former CBI Directo🌱r D R Karthikeyan, former officials from the probe agency, and members of the film industry attended a special screening of the upcoming film ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’.
Former CBI Inspector-General P M Nair said the film was entertaining, captivating, and very meaningful. The special screening of the film was organized at the Siri Fort auditorium in New Delhi on Sunday. He said it was a perfeಞct combination of science, technology, and emotioꦫn.
Set for theatrical release on July 1,🌠 the film is a biographical drama based on the life of Nambi Narayanan, a former scientist and aerospace engineer of the Indian Space Research Organisation, who was falsely charged with espionage in 1994. Months after🥂 the arrests of the accused by Kerala Police, the CBI looked at the evidence and found that the whole case was fabricated.
Speaking on the occasion, actor R Madhavan who plays the role of Narayanan, said ꧂the film was a celebration of India’s technological prowess across the space and IT sectors. It conveyed the message♔ of India’s soft power skill sets to the world with regard to human resource expertise and scientific excellence, Madhavan said.
Apurva Chandra, Secretary, I&🌌amp;B said the film was a tribute to the thousands of scientists, including Nambi Narayanan, who have dedicated their entire life to the achievemenဣts of India’s space program.
The film was shot simultaneously in Tamil, Hindi, and English and will also be released in dubbed versions of Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. The World Premiere 𒁃of the film was held at a business event organized alongside the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
[With Inputs from PTI]
