Thursday 31 August 2023
The Chandrayaan Bollywood script is ready.
The Chandrayaan Bollywood script is ready.
The film opens in ISRO headquarters as Chandrayaan 2 is on the verge of reaching its destination. Anupam Kher is the project director. Akshay Kumar is his deputy.
They are nearing when suddenly siren starts beeping. All hell breaks lose in command centre. Everyone tries to find the cause. Some scientific jargon thrown in.
However the catastrophe can't be prevented and the lander crashes. Everyone breaks down.
Anupam Kher is in tears and suddenly has a heart attack. Akshay Kumar somehow holds him and calls for ambulance.
Montage of nation grieving. News channel anchor says Chandrayaan par grahan lag gaya.
Gajraj Rao is Minister. He is kind hearted and supportive. He meets Akshay Kumar who is a broken man. He asks Akshay not to give up for the sake of Anupam Kher who is like a father to him.
Flashback.
A young Akshay Kumar is the son of auto driver Pankaj Tripathi. His parents are poor but they want their son to be educated.
His mother is Seema Biswas. She cooks kheer and tells her son stories about Chanda Mama.
Akshay is in Govt school and is one of the smartest kids in class. Teacher asks him what he wants to be when he grows up. He says he wants to go to moon. All other kids laugh.
Teacher tells him hum gareebo ko aise sapne nahi dekhna chahiye.
However at home supportive Father Pankaj Tripathi says no dream is impossible if a person works hard. Mother makes kheer and tells Akshay story about Chanda Mama.
However one day a teenage Akshay gets a terrible news that his father has been killed in an accident and mother is seriously injured.
He goes to hospital. His mother is on her deathbed. Young Akshay asks her not to leave him. She says don't worry your Chanda Mama will take care of you. Camera pans through hospital window to moon in sky which is suddenly covered by black clouds.
Sad song.
He drops out of school and starts driving his father's auto
One day Anupam Kher sits in auto and starts talking to Akshay. He is amazed how well educated the kid is. He finds out about sad story and decides to adopt Akshay.
He brings Akshay home. Anupam Kher's wife is Neena Gupta. They decide to give Akshay best education.
Uplifting Sukhvinder Singh song.
Montage of studying and happy family scenes.
Akshay grows up and joins NASA after passing out of Harvard.
In the US he is the darling of the desi folks. He dances during Diwali event.
Here he meets and falls in love with Radhika Apte (she is South Indian. Listen this is movie on science, so a South Indian character is essential). She has the habit of saying Aiyyo after a flawless Hindi sentence.
One day as the couple are walking on a moonlit night, suddenly 5-6 goons surround the couple with an intention to rob them. Akshay realises the danger as they are armed with knives.
Suddenly darkness. Moon has gone behind clouds. In the darkness Akshay attacks and neutralises the goons. Moon comes back.
Akshay says Mama ne bacha liya. Radhika Apte is perplexed. Akshay says the moon is his guardian angel. (Did I tell you this film has something to do with the moon)
One day at NASA they are working on an important project. There is some issue and the racist American boss scolds Akshay and says you Indians know nothing about this field. Basically you Indians are poor and good for nothing. Other white scientists laugh and mock India.
Akshay gives them rousing speech about India's technological prowess and resigns.
Akshay and Radhika take flight back to India. As flight takes off sun is shining in US, cross-fade to moon and landing in India.
Akshay joins ISRO where Anupam Kher is director. They decide to build Chandrayaan.
Scientists things shown.
Computer. Random numbers flashing on screen, some coding type thing, telescope etc.
They go to ask Minister for funding. He says his hands are tied, there's only that much we can spend. Akshay says okay his father told him no dream is impossible if a person works hard. He says we will make this work at a budget less than that of a Hollywood film.
More computers. More hardwork.
Finally back to where we started.
Anupam Kher is now on a wheelchair. He asks Akshay to finish the project.
Sad song. Chand chhup gaya badal main types.
Racist NASA boss is shown laughing at failure. Told you so types that these Indians can't do it.
Akshay stars work. He is joined by Tapasee Pannu, who has also quit NASA.
More computer work. Radhika Apte delivers a daughter. Guess what she is named. Chanda. Did I tell you this is a film about the moon?
Finally the spacecraft is launched.
Heavy anticipation.
However project encounters some difficulty.
Akshay says he knows a man who can help.
Shahrukh Khan cameo as Mohan Bhargav from Swades. Bingo he solves problem.
Akshay says thanks. They hug.
As lander nears moon, there is a storm. Lots of rocks etc floating around in space. The lander needs to be manually operated from the station.
Entire nation prays.
Akshay takes control. As he maneuvers lander, we see flashback montage of Pankaj Tripathi and young Akshay driving an auto. Like they maneuvered in traffic, Akshay maneuvers lander and finally it lands.
Akshay says Mama hum finally mil gaye.
Project is successful. Anupam Kher gets up from wheelchair and hugs Akshay.
All clap and cry.
Minister applauds.
NASA Chief calls Akshay and apologizes.
Entire country celebrates.
Akshay tells his daughter the story of Chanda Mama that his mother used to tell him
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