Rocket Boys (Seasons 1–2)

Rocket Boys (2022) is an Indian historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, following two scientists who built a young nation's space and nuclear ambitions out of almost nothing.

It moves across the 1940s and 1960s, from the last years of colonial rule into the first labs of an independent India. Homi Bhabha (Jim Sarbh) is a brilliant, aristocratic physicist chasing a reactor of his own; Vikram Sarabhai (Ishwak Singh) is convinced a poor country needs satellites as badly as it needs bread. Their friendship, their fights and their shared stubbornness carry the story, while thin budgets and politics keep getting in the way.

Director Abhay Pannu skips the dry biopic for a human drama about ambition and the cost of a scientific leap, with a separate thread for a young Abdul Kalam. Watch it if you're drawn to how an idea in someone's head turns into an actual launch, and to people who are obsessed with their work. Stream Rocket Boys online on iFILM.