Collection “Rocket Boys” was a success for SonyLIV when it started streaming in 2022 and the streamer is anticipating to copy its success with season 2, which streams from March 16.
The collection is created by Nikkhil Advani and directed by Abhay Pannu, and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani for Roy Kapur Movies and Emmay Leisure. It’s a fictionalized model of the story of Dr. Homi J. Bhabha (Jim Sarbh), who engineered India’s nuclear program and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai (Ishwak Singh), who established the Indian area program. Set throughout the Forties-Seventies, key gamers within the collection additionally embrace Mrinalini Sarabhai (Regina Cassandra), a pillar in Dr. Sarabhai’s life, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Arjun Radhakrishnan), who pioneered trendy Indian aerospace and nuclear expertise, and would go on to develop into the President of India, and the then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (Rajit Kapur) who supported the scientists.
“The acutely aware choice that all of us took, was that permit’s not get slowed down by the legacy of Dr. Homi Bhabha and the legacy of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. If we’re taking the audiences into the Forties then they’re Homi and Vikram. They aren’t Dr. Sarabhai and Dr. Bhabha, so let’s deal with them as real, very younger males who’re making an attempt to making an attempt to chase a dream. That’s what season 1 was about,” Advani advised Selection.
“Geopolitics takes over in season 2. It’s actually now about [India’s] first nuclear check, which occurred in 1974, and what every of our characters truly contribute, in addition to maintain again. It’s a lot larger when it comes to scale, their ambition has develop into a lot larger, a lot bigger. And the stakes develop into bigger as a result of the CIA will get concerned,” Advani added.
Roy Kapur added: “The inciting incident for season 2 is the truth that Jawaharlal Nehru is now no extra. You’ve received a 17-year old-country, that’s a really fledgling nation – it’s very laborious for lots of people of our era, or youthful than us, to think about a rustic that has simply been unified and is coming into its personal and has solely ever identified one chief, is abruptly adrift. You’ve received a brand new set of political philosophies in place now, which due to this fact prohibit the entry that our scientists needed to the seat of energy, and due to this fact go away them in a scenario the place they and their desires and their imaginative and prescient is now susceptible to the dictates of the brand new political age.”
“You see the rise of Indira Gandhi as nicely, and what her contribution was to what occurred between the 1964 and 1974 interval. So it’s a really attention-grabbing, very intense, very dramatic and thrilling 10 years that the entire season encapsulates,” Roy Kapur mentioned.
Roy Kapur and Advani aren’t ruling out the potential of a continuation of the story. “The premise of the present was about renaissance males, about individuals who did extraordinary issues. Sidd and I’ve, in our moments of weak spot, we now have mentioned it. However in moments of lucidity, you say ‘no, let or not it’s over now,’” Advani mentioned.
Roy Kapur added: “If this specific story needed to proceed, after all, it could be about India’s nuclear program and area program. After which the women and men who took it ahead from 1974 onwards and into the current day. If it’s the theme of two personalities inside a sure area, whose lives whose skilled and private lives are very intricately intertwined and you utilize that theme in several spheres, then the probabilities are countless.”
