STORY:
During a broadcast interview with entertainer Shah Rukh Khan (Hindi)/Suriya (Tamil), Nambi strolls through the occasions prompting his ascent as a famous specialist to supposed undercover work charges, and physical and mental brutality against him.
Nambi begins with his experiences at the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, where he rescued one of his team members from sustaining a serious injury during an experiment. He is admitted to Princeton University in the United States in 1969.
Under the guidance of professor Luigi Crocco, Nambi successfully completes his MSE program in chemical rocket propulsion, which led to his recommendation for the NASA fellowship. However, after working with Barry Amaldev for a short time at NASA, he receives a generous salary and other benefits. He turns it down and goes back to India so that he can use his skills at ISRO. Therefore, he additionally figures out how to get 400 million pounds of hardware from Scotland for nothing. Nonetheless, after the dubious passing of Vikram Sarabhai, he didn't have satisfactory help from ISRO or assets from the Indian government to proceed with his examination.
Right now, Nambi figures out an agreement with the French who need talented researchers to assist them with building their own fluid fuel motor. He then, at that point, moves to France with his associates, expecting to gain from France's trend setting innovation so they might reproduce it back in India. Unbeknownst to the French, Nambi and his 52 partners have learnt French before their process however profess to not grasp them. Nambi's team tries to gain access to these meetings and test data after being excluded from their major discussions. The French engine's flaws are discovered at that point. Nambi takes advantage of this opportunity to obtain access to the necessary data in exchange for engine repair. The group then gets back to India and begin working on building their own motor on fluid energizes. However, it will take an additional eight years to complete due to a lack of resources. The engine is tested at the same facility in France, where it exceeds the pressure of 135 and reaches 180. After succeeding in his plans, Nambi names the engine VIKAS in honor of his mentor Vikram Sarabhai and returns to India.
Nambi is currently concentrating on cryogenic engines, which he believes will equip India to compete in the global satellite market. Nambi decides to purchase these engines from a different nation due to ISRO's time and resources constraints. After telling his Russian friend in Princeton that he knows about their cryogenic missiles, he makes a deal with Russia, which was the USSR at the time. He demands 4 of them to be imported to India. After the Russians concur, the Americans learn about this arrangement and make an honest effort to break it. With the assistance of the Russians, Nambi and his colleagues are able to expedite the transfer process and steal a few engines from under the American radar while the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse.
Back in India, Nambi is captured unexpectedly while insight about his conspiracy fans out like quickly. He is escorted to a guest house in Trivandrum, where he is subjected to beatings and other forms of torture in an effort to persuade him to confess to the alleged offenses. He also knows that a recording device is in the room to record the officials trying to get him to repeat their sentences. Nambi, on the other hand, stands his ground and denies every charge. It was alleged that Nambi met Mariam, a Maldivian woman, in a Chennai hotel and was forced to sell India's rocketry secrets to Pakistan after being caught in her trap. P. M. Nair, a CBI official, arrives at Nambi's hospitalization and conducts a thorough investigation. Nair brings Mariam and her companion, alongside a couple of others into the room. Mariam and her friend say that the Kerala police officer in charge of the investigation, Gopal, tortured them, threatened them, and made them falsely accuse Nambi, who they had never met. They also apologize to Nambi for hurting him and his family and ruining his reputation. Nair also determines that all of the accused in this case were members of ISRO's cryogenic wing, leading him to the conclusion that it was a massive plot by influential parties to impede India's advancement in the cryogenic industry.
Nambi receives bail months later and returns to his house to find his family traumatized by the treatment they received from others. Meena, Nambi's wife, requires mental health care, and the rest of his family is still shunned by society. Consequently, Nambi concludes that he needs to demonstrate his innocence so his family might have typical existences later on. After being found not guilty by the Supreme Court for years, Nambi returns to ISRO to assist his coworkers with the Mangalyaan mission. Nambi is subsequently granted the Padma Bhushan for his commitments to Indian Space Exploration.
In the wake of hearing his story, Shah Rukh Khan (Hindi)/Suriya (Tamil) feels so awful for Nambi, that he is sorry to Nambi for the benefit of the entire country, as the meeting closes. The genuine Nambi is shown getting the Padma Bhushan grant from the president, Smash Nath Kovind.
