'I Deserve This', R Madhavan On Being Massively Trolled Over His Panchang-ISRO Remark

R Madhavan who is gearing up for the release of his forthcoming movie Rocketry: The Nambi Effect found himself in hot soup after he said in an interview that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was able to successfully launch a rocket into space for Mars Mission with the help of Hindu calendar also known as?Panchangam.?

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After getting massively trolled for the ISRO-Panchangam remark, here's what R Madhavan has to say.?

R Madhavan has now issued a clarification. He says, "I deserve this."

Taking to Twitter, R Madhavan wrote, "I deserve this for calling the Almanac the “Panchang” in tamil. Very ignorant of me.?Though this cannot take away for the fact that what was achieved with just 2 engines by us in the Mars Mission.A record by itself. @NambiNOfficial Vikas engine is a rockstar."

R Madhavan's controversial statement

In his interview in Telugu, as per TM Krishna's translation, he said, "Indian rockets did not have the three engines (solid, liquid and cryogenic) that helps western rockets propel themselves into Mars' orbit. Since India lacked this... used information in the Panchangam."

"It has the celestial map with all information on various planets, gravitation pulls, sun's flares deflection etc., all calculated perfectly 1000s of years ago and hence the micro-second the launch was calculated using this info. The rocket was launched, it went around the earth, moon and Jupiter's moon and ricochet like a play thing and put into Mar's orbit".

R Madhavan has written, produced and acted in?Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, a biopic on Nambi Narayanan, a former scientist and aerospace engineer of the ISRO, who was falsely accused of espionage.?The charges were dismissed in 1996 by CBI and he was declared non-guilty in 1998, but it was after 24 years that he received compensation of Rs 50 lakhs recently in September for being kept in prison for 50 days.??

The film will be released on July 1 in theatres worldwide.

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