#RocketryTheNambiEffect has MANY FIRSTS to its credit.
Making it, potentially, a late-but-not-least PIONEERING EFFORT in INDIAN CINEMA.
Putting them across in this THREAD and linked article.
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science.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2021/4/5…
Making it, potentially, a late-but-not-least PIONEERING EFFORT in INDIAN CINEMA.
Putting them across in this THREAD and linked article.
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science.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2021/4/5…
Given popular Indian cinema's repute for exploiting cinematic liberties, one wasn't expecting the moviemakers to research well?
But they did in this case. The movie therefore becomes a chronicle of India's post-independence struggle to reach where it is now.
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But they did in this case. The movie therefore becomes a chronicle of India's post-independence struggle to reach where it is now.
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The protagonist in the trailer is shown walking in a workshop wearing SEP apron.
SEP = Societe Europeenne de Propulsion, is a French engine manufacturer now known as SAFRAN.
ISRO-SAFRAN relations have been thickest, & epitome of #IndiaFrance strategic relations.
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SEP = Societe Europeenne de Propulsion, is a French engine manufacturer now known as SAFRAN.
ISRO-SAFRAN relations have been thickest, & epitome of #IndiaFrance strategic relations.
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Same #SAFRAN has made engines for #Rafale fighters bought by India, after great anguish given by vested interests. Vested interests continue to bother even today.
The movie will highlight, true to reality, the great anguish given to India in its pursuit for VIKAS engines.
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The movie will highlight, true to reality, the great anguish given to India in its pursuit for VIKAS engines.
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Have we ever seen a movie on any of these tribulations or on Indian scientist who gave everything?
#RocketryTheNambiEffect is perhaps the 1st Indian movie that could have found place for the stalwarts of INDIAN SCIENCE- #VikramSarabhai, #SatishDhawan & #APJAbdulKalam.
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#RocketryTheNambiEffect is perhaps the 1st Indian movie that could have found place for the stalwarts of INDIAN SCIENCE- #VikramSarabhai, #SatishDhawan & #APJAbdulKalam.
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In one of the snippets, the trailer shows a standee and table-flag of #Glavkosmos and a poster of Soviet space shuttle #Buran with logo of Space Commerce Corporation.
Same SCC was the 1st joint venture across IRON CURTAIN b/w US & Soviet Union.
So much history here!!
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Same SCC was the 1st joint venture across IRON CURTAIN b/w US & Soviet Union.
So much history here!!
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Today, #GLAVKOSMOS, is assisting INDIA's #GAGANYAAN program by training INDIAN #vyomanauts/#gaganauts in #Russia.
But again: has anyone in INDIAN CINEMA ever chronicled how INDIAN SCIENTISTS got laurels for the nation amidst the cloudy COLD WAR?
Perhaps never.
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But again: has anyone in INDIAN CINEMA ever chronicled how INDIAN SCIENTISTS got laurels for the nation amidst the cloudy COLD WAR?
Perhaps never.
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Many movies were made on geopolitical events, on 1962, 65, 71, 99 wars, on attacks, on India's retaliation, on spies & soldiers.
But when was a near-accurate movie last made mapping independent India's techno-political progress?
#RocketryTheNambiEffect could be the 1st.
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But when was a near-accurate movie last made mapping independent India's techno-political progress?
#RocketryTheNambiEffect could be the 1st.
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This is the first movie showing how our space engineers/ scientists mobilized themselves across US, Western Europe & Russia, to fill MISSING-LINK technologies under great domestic tribulations and a polity that always pitted
BUILDING TOILETS over ADVANCED SPACE PROGRAM.
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BUILDING TOILETS over ADVANCED SPACE PROGRAM.
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We should be glad that with #SwachhBharat that vile and misplaced comparison will never be made again. 🙏
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#RocketryTheNambiEffect can become a PIONEER in the Biographical Genre on INDIAN SCIENTISTS or even science and science-fiction genres.
If that happens, then the theory that sustained deliberate dishing of stale cinematic content to us Indians will fall on its face.
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If that happens, then the theory that sustained deliberate dishing of stale cinematic content to us Indians will fall on its face.
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Is this paid promotion for the movie?
HELL NO.
But as educated, well-meaning, patriotic citizenry we must encourage the collaboration of INDIAN ART with INDIAN SCIENCE.
Nambiji's illustrious story, and his fight against odds, was waiting to be celebrated.
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HELL NO.
But as educated, well-meaning, patriotic citizenry we must encourage the collaboration of INDIAN ART with INDIAN SCIENCE.
Nambiji's illustrious story, and his fight against odds, was waiting to be celebrated.
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Our young generation need not be fed trash content under the garb of 'content is king' idiom.
There are many great stories of our scientists, engineers, adventurers, explorers, innovators, artists that are waiting to be told. PLEASE TELL THEM in all cinematic forms.
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There are many great stories of our scientists, engineers, adventurers, explorers, innovators, artists that are waiting to be told. PLEASE TELL THEM in all cinematic forms.
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We need many UNCLE PAI's and many AMAR CHITRA KATHA's in cinema, literature, television, OTT to tell such stories.
ART and SCIENCE are pillars of Bharatiya Sanskriti, take their charge.
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ART and SCIENCE are pillars of Bharatiya Sanskriti, take their charge.
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