Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022)

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• An earlier planned film about Nambi Narayanan, titled The Witch Hunt, cast Malayalam actor Mohanlal as the scientist, with Resul Pookutty, Sreekar Prasad and L. Subramaniam as sound designer, editor and music composer. Its team spoke to several production houses but the project never took off as planned.
• R. Madhavan took up to 14 hours to get into the look of the aged Nambi Narayanan following extensive make-up, and the scenes featuring the older version of the character were filmed first.
• A few days after shooting began on Rocketry, Mahadevan left the project owing to prior commitments and R. Madhavan took over as its sole director.
• The Rocketry team moved to Georgia and Russia in late January 2019 and completed the shoot five days ahead of schedule, despite having to film in unfavourable weather conditions.
• R. Madhavan portrayed Nambi Narayanan from the age of 27 to 75, and gained weight so he could film the older scenes first, after taking advice from Aamir Khan.
• Madhavan regularly met Nambi Narayanan to make the script more factual and rewrote it to cover the scientist's entire career and his services to the Indian space programme, rather than just the espionage case and his 1994 arrest.
• Shah Rukh Khan and Suriya agreed to make cameo appearances as themselves in the Hindi and Tamil versions of Rocketry respectively, and neither actor charged a fee.
• VistaVerse, the metaverse of Vistas Media Capital, launched collectable NFTs tied to Rocketry in late June 2022, and the film became the first Indian film to reach 10,000 NFTs claimed.