![]() ![]() scene helped in showing the challenges faced by the protagonist Homi Bhabha to get what he wanted. It is also true that Nehru along with top scientists from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), particularly its first director-general Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, along with Bhabha did have to negotiate and convince the Travancore state to hand over access to its monazite reserves. However, the narrative as presented by the makers of Rocket Boys does shed light on the lesser-known story of Travancore’s Thorium reserves and its bid for independence. The events and conversations were dramatised,” says Pannu. “This was the larger canvas and we painted within it. Rocket Boys’ director Abhay Pannu agrees that the way the scene has been shot is not how things had unfolded. Although it was the first princely state to declare its intention to remain independent, Travancore had acceded to the union on July 30, 1947. Moreover, unlike what the series would have us believe, Travancore did not remain independent after August 1947. No such meeting took place between the Maharaja, Nehru and Bhabha as per available evidence. Historians too believe that the scene is highly dramatised. ![]() ![]() The surviving family of the Travancore princely state has accused the series of showing the last king of the state in poor light. ![]()
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