'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect: Story of Patriotic scientist
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New Delhi, April, 02: With an aim to showcase the true and the real story of the Rocket scientists and aerospace engineer of Nambi Narayanan, makers, and director R Madhavan release the much-awaited trailer of Rocketry-The Nambi Effect. More interestingly, R Madhavan has not only directed the movie but he has also portrayed the role of Nambi in the movie.
This film was made simultaneously in Tamil, English, and Hindi with a very huge budget. The biopic is based on the life of Nambi Narayanan, a former Indian scientist and aerospace engineer at ISRO, who was falsely accused of espionage.
The trailer begins with R Madhavan as present-day Nambi Narayanan in a bearded and bespectacled avatar. In his conversation with Shah Rukh Khan, who features in a cameo in Rocketry, the onscreen Nambi tells him to tread carefully otherwise history will be repeated.
The three-minute trailer showcases the journey of the Nambi Narayanan who was an arrogant genius" and patriotic who ditched NASA for ISRO for his nation. His dream was to help India make an impact in the commercial satellite market by bringing to life the rockets he was conceptualising. However soon one political party ( Congress party) played dirty politics against him and accused him of transferring confidential documents on India's space program to foreign countries in 1994.
The even led to his imprisonment and police cases against him by the then governments. However, after an investigation by the CBI, the allegations on him were found to be false and in 1998, the Supreme Court upheld the findings by the CBI and had asked the Kerala government to pay Rs 1 lakh in compensation to Narayanan and other
The film is directed and written by R Madhavan and presented by Tricolour Films and Varghese Moolan Pictures. Tricolour Films has also produced the project
Who is Nambi Narayanan
Nambi Narayanan was ISRO scientist who was accused of leaking certain confidential documents on India’s Space program to foreign countries by two scientists and four others, including two Maldivian women Mariam Rasheeda and Fauzia Hassan. Narayanan was among two scientists that were accused of selling the secrets for millions. Narayanan was arrested and spent 48 days in jail.
After that CBI takes over the case. After 15 days of investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Kerala Police, the case was transferred to the CBI which after 18 months of the investigation in April 1996 concluded that the case against Nambi Narayanan and others was fabricated. The CBI had reportedly submitted two confidential reports to the Union and Kerala governments listing respectively serious lapses by IB officials and SIT members.
The CBI in its report had observed, "The aforesaid IB officials comprising the team enquiring into ISRO case acted in an unprofessional manner and were privy to the arrest of six innocent persons, thereby causing them immense mental and physical agony." The CBI had also clearly indicted Srikumar for "failing in their duty to conduct the inquiry in an objective and fair manner."
On 7 November 2013, Narayanan pushed for justice in his case, seeking to expose those behind the conspiracy. He says that this case will 'discourage' the youth. On 14 September 2018, Supreme Court has given a clean chit to former ISRO scientist 'Nambi Narayanan' in a false espionage case, implicated by the Kerala Police under Congress govt in 1994. It had categorically mentioned that the case was "unnecessary" and that "he was implicated."
Nambi was a brilliant scientist and at the time of his arrest, he was working as a senior official at ISRO and was in charge of the cryogenics division. He was responsible for introducing the liquid fuel rocket technology in India when the country was still working on solid motors and played a major role in developing the ‘Vikas Engine’ used for the first PSLV launch. On 26 Jan 2019, he was conferred the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India.
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