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This birthday was a day which reminded me how difficult everyday is, for a working mother. Mix of emotions and very tight schedule at the same time. It's all the while difficult when you want to feel special for you know it is your birthday but your responsibilities won't allow you take a day off from the work you do. Neither in kitchen, nor at relationships as well. I laughed, I cried, I worked hard, I partied hard, was under very tight schedule, and did relax well too. As a part of too many days in one day, me and my husband had the movie scheduled in midst of last minute travel in two wheeler as usual with just a bit of rain to up the traffic. Reaching the venue heroically, finally we made it on time for the national anthem's tune. All we had was one thing in mind; This movie better be worth the traffic risk we took! 😊
Tara Shinde, the project manager of Mission Mars
reminds her team of their purpose of being scientists by sort of time travel to their very first memory that led to the determination of becoming a scientist one day.
Rakesh Sharma, the Chief Scientist seems an oddball when convincing the panel
for supporting his mission every time his superiors find excuses to drop it. He barges in the meeting of chandrayan twice to prove his point once and to pitch for funds, in rather ridiculous seeming poori frying and pretending to talk to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Overtly dramatic as these two sequences might seem to the viewer, were still required to lighten up the heavy subject of research and satellite
launch. The amount of pain that the Mars team would have taken to convince
everyone else of their home science based rocket science, especially at a time
when the mission had no funds of its own and bizarre idea of trusting a Hohmann
Transfer Orbit* that was propounded a century ago, indeed has a vast scope of
imagination to screenplay of Ravi Varman and direction of Jagan Shakti for
creating an effective movie to celebrate the achievement.
Most government projects tend to extend their set time which they give numerous reasons for delay. A mission that was made possible in the record time of
15 months will always be a wonder in a government run institution. India is the
first country to be successful in inserting a satellite into Mars in its first
attempt, that we all are super proud about. This movie is an attempt at giving this
achievement a human touch by weaving it with a palatable story.
Weaving a handful of hilarious turn of events, it
feels good to have a right mixture of fun and work in the story. The movie definitely
inspires us towards the career that we have chosen in life. A super booster
movie for women indeed who are the face of their family and a pride at whatever they are best at.
How the women on mission handle situations and casualties at home as well as at work is what I could relate to, being a working woman myself. Balancing work and family is a humongous task which can only be taken and balanced one issue after the other as they come along in everyday life.
A handful of dialogues, the part of movie where launch and settling of satellite at Mars Orbit is shown will stay with the viewer even after movie.
Try holding back the burst of happiness within, as a
viewer when we become part of witnessing the mission and start praying for no
more hurdles in Mission MOM!
Have fun watching, that if you still haven’t watched. Every time you think the movie is going off track, it's propelled on the relevant track again! Movie in bits and pieces is like experiencing how the “Poori Science” worked in Mangalyan by switching off fuel every time the heat was sufficient!!
*Hohmann transfer orbit - Path in space that works with earth's gravity to hold satellite still orbiting around earth, but will keep widening the trajectory every round. Only ISRO used this theory n technique while launching satellite in just a PSLV rocket with very less fuel capacity.
