17 minutes to break your heart in zero gravity.
Two Indian astronauts must cope with the death of their captain on a one-way voyage to the nearest Earth-like sanctuary.
Direction
Virani does more with 17 minutes than most do with 170.
Acting
Kapoor and Khan sell decades of history in loaded silences.
Director
Faroukh Virani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare pre-2020 sci-fi films centering South Asian astronauts without exoticizing them—their Indianness is simply fact, not plot point.
The title references ancient Sanskrit flying palaces, drawing deliberate parallel between mythic escape and modern colonial space expansion.
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