Actor R Madhavan on Monday shared a picture on social media from his recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Also present at the meeting was S. Narayan Nambi, scientist and 'Rocketary: The Nambi Effect', is based.
The picture shows them seated in a boardroom, observing social distancing.
"A few weeks ago, @NambiNOfficial and I had the honour of calling on PM @narendramodi. We spoke on the upcoming film #Rocketrythefilm and were touched and honored by PM's reaction to the clips and concern for Nambi ji & the wrong done to him. Thank you for the privilege sir," Madhavan wrote as caption.
The film is based on the life of scientist and aerospace engineer S. Nambi
Narayanan
. Apart from directing, Madhavan essays the protagonist Nambi Narayanan.
As a senior official at the Indian Space Research Organisation (
ISRO), Narayanan was in-charge of the cryogenics division. In 1994, he was falsely charged with espionage and arrested. The charges were dismissed by the
Central Bureau of Investigation (
CBI) in 1996, and the
Supreme Court declared him not guilty in 1998.
'Rocketary: The Nambi Effect' will release in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, English and Kannada languages.