And from my experience, I'd say the experts often have the best sense of humour. In our community, everyone's always ready with a joke and a laugh. So, they were like, 'Don't f*** it up, ch****!' Everyone's an equal and everyone's making fun of everyone. What I love about Parsis is that we never take anything seriously. How did your community react to the decision to cast you as Homi Bhabha? IMAGE: Jim Sarbh and Ishwak Singh, who plays Vikram Sarabhai in Rocket Boys. He was a genius, yes, but we wanted to present him as a complete human being, with both greatness and faults. He wrote books on culture and had a mind for politics which helped him get things done. While being a scientist, a nuclear physicist, he also played the violin, could paint and was a patron of the arts.
The idea was to talk less about Homi Bhabha's greatness and legacy and more about how a person like him would interact day to day, thereby humanising him and not presenting a cardboard cutout.įrom our research, we had learnt that he was a charismatic and driven man, with a penetrating intellect, a great sense of humour, knowledge and interest in a broad range of subjects. What was it like stepping out as him in front of the camera that first day on the set of Rocket Boys?Īctually, I came on the set already knowing what I was trying to do with the character from the many readings and workshops we had gone through.
You see flashes of it in this conversation with Senior Contributor Roshmila Bhattacharya.ĭr Bhabha is someone we have read about in school textbooks. Like the physicist, Jim Sarbh is as quietly confident, elegantly suave and with a great sense of humour. It isn't just his Parsi roots that make him the perfect choice to play Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha in Sony Liv's Web Series, Rocket Boys. IMAGE: Jim Sarbh as Dr Homi Bhabha in Rocket Boys.
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