look | Jim Sarbh on playing Homi Bhabha in ‘Rocket Boys’

Jim Sarbh’s six on-screen projects from 2018 – three films and three series – were headed for OTT release. However, this does not limit him to the streaming space. And, he doesn’t like to be confined.
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Since his on-screen debut, his roles have included a war general (Padmavati), a drug peddler (Sanju), a business brat (made in heaven), and an accounting teacher (PhotoApart from films and series, 34-year-old Sarbh also works in plays and commercials. But for them, no demarcation exists between movies, series, plays and commercials. “I think they all inform each other. It’s about applying a similar thought process from one thing to another,” he explains. The Hindu Weekend,

This unified vision is also a feature he saw in the protagonist of his new series, rocket boys, an eight-episode period drama that tells the story of two giant figures of modern Indian science, Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai. Sarbh, who plays Bhabha, says, “One of the reasons I liked both the characters is that they didn’t see things as separate from each other. They did not think of art and science and politics separately. [To them] Everything was part of the same mechanism.”