Ishwak Singh on reprising Vikram Sarabhai in Rocket Boys 2

Ahead of Rocket Boys Season 2, Ishwak Singh, who portrayed the role of physicist and father of India's space programme Dr Vikram Sarabhai, has recalled the weeks spent researching for his role in the series. Ishwak says he studied as much literature available on Vikram Sarabhai to essay his role better.

"I prepared for Vikram Sarabhai with a multi prong approach," the actor shares. "I wanted to know him inside out I.e from his childhood days in Ahmedabad to his education in Cambridge, the various aspects of his personal and professional life. It was like going back to school as I ended up reading science text books, geeked out on lectures by MIT professor Walter Lewin, studied about ISRO, The making of the bomb and Modern history."

He continues, "I also studied the basics of Rocket science and its evolution and that's how I got to know about the pioneers like Tsiolkovsky Goddard and Wernher von Braun. But while I was going about doing peripheral and prep work I'd keep coming back to the script which was sacrosanct for me and was carved out so meticulously by Abhay Pannu. He had done immense research and had interwoven the highlights of Vikram Sarabhai's life beautifully in the story. Over a period of 18 months, we compared notes and hand-crafted the character almost like a sculpture. What encapsulates Vikram Sarbhai is that he was a man of science and that's how I played him."

Recently, Sony Liv released the teaser of Rocket Boys Season 2, which mostly focuses on the Pokhran Nuclear Test story. 

Apart from this, Ishwak will be seen in an upcoming spy thriller titled Berlin, written and directed by Atul Sabharwal. It will also have Aparshakti Khurana as his co-star.

Ishwak also recently finished shooting for Bas Karo Aunty, based on Varun Agarwal’s bestselling book, How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company.