Rocket Boys
On: SonyLIV
Dir: Abhay Pannu
Runtime: 360 mins
Cast: Jim Sarbh, Ishwak Singh
Rating: 4/5

This is a work of staggering ambition and sincerity, mainly given that you won’t easily find its immediate equivalent from Indian television. It’s a biopic, yes; make that two, in fact. But from a field that, unlike, say, sports or crime, doesn’t instantly lend itself to obvious drama, as it were. We’re talking science, of course.

Most mainstream shows/films on that subject, you’ll notice, involve fast-talking blokes throwing up jargon, in order to establish minds operating at the speed of thought. That is, when they’re not blowing up stuff during an experiment.