‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’ actor Dinesh Prabhakar on portraying police in the R Madhavan's directorial- Exclusive

Actor R Madhavan is never new at playing unique and challenging film roles that help him to completely unveil his acting potential. Now in the upcoming biographical drama movie ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’, R Madhavan will be seen essaying the role of the real-life former scientist and aerospace engineer of ISRO, Nambi Narayanan.

As the film is gearing up for its theatrical release on July 1 (Friday), ETimes reached out to the Malayalam actor Dinesh Prabhakar who was all the way excited to be part of such an ambitious project.

Dinesh said, “I am playing a police character in ‘Rocketry’. Even though my screen time is less, it's one of the most important characters in the movie and I am really looking forward to seeing the audience's response to it.” The actor also said that he was really excited to be selected for such a huge project.

Speaking exclusively to ETimes, Dinesh opened up on how he got selected for the role of police in ‘Rocketry’. “Years ago I did a web film directed by the renowned filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar and it was he who recommended me to ‘Rocketry’ during its casting process. Later, the makers of ‘Rocketry’ called me up for an audition and I got selected for my part in the movie," he says.

Dinesh Prabhakar adds, “ It was Mukesh Chhabra casting company which selected me for the web series ‘The Family Man’ and now for the Madhavan’s film ‘Rocketry’. As for ‘The Family Man’, I was selected mainly because of the fact that the makers were looking for someone who can speak both Malayalam and Hindi.”
Dinesh divulged by saying that his luck began when he got selected to play a major role in the John Abraham starrer Hindi film ‘Madras Cafe’ which was released in the year 2013. “ Later after ‘Madras Cafe’ I was selected to play a major role in the Bollywood movies ‘Chef’ and the Naseeruddin Shah starrer ‘Waiting’," he signs off.
On the other hand, Dinesh Prabhakar has a host of highly ambitious projects in the pipeline that includes ‘Sayanna Varthakal’, ‘Ottakomban’, ‘Veekam’, and ‘Padachone Ingalu Kaatholee’.