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Space Gen: Chandrayaan

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy Hindi


Indian space engineers face mounting pressure to redeem themselves following the Chandrayaan 2 lunar mission's unexpected outcome.

Cast:Nakuul Mehta, Shriya Saran, Prakash Belawadi, Gopal Datt, Danish Sait, Ankit Motghare
Director:Anant Singh
Writer:Nitin Tiwari, Shubham Sharma, Arunabh Kumar
Editor:Farooq Hundekar

Guild Reviews

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Failure to Launch

FCG Member Reviewer Rahul Desai
Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India
Sat, January 24 2026

The TVF series dramatising ISRO’s landmark lunar mission is steeped in a lack of curiosity, craft and wonder

When Chandrayaan-3 nailed the first-ever soft landing on the South Pole of the moon in 2023, all I could think of was the mad scramble of studios to secure the rights to ISRO’s remarkable feat. I could almost sense it happening in real time. It didn’t take long for the child-coded euphoria to make way for an adult-coded wariness — who’s going to pitch first? Who’s going to overcook the perfectly good story? Who’s going to make the unglamorous heroes speak to each other like human ChatGPT apps? It felt inevitable, given the tailor-made ingredients: science, space, patriotism, spaced-out patriotism, a budget less than Nolan’s Interstellar, New India, first-world villains, a moon that doesn’t resemble Swiss cheese. TVF wasn’t on my Creator bingo card, but their slate has often used popular appeal to conceal themes of social conservatism and compliance over the years. Ironically, the current ‘2016 viral trend’ would flash back to TVF as the first movers and harbingers of Indian web storytelling. But space is not their jam; the future is not their cup of (mainstream) tea.

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Treats its audience like toddlers, with heavy-handed exposition, wafer-thin characters,

FCG Member Reviewer Suchin Mehrotra
Suchin Mehrotra | The Hollywood Reporter
January 24, 2026
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FCG Member Reviewer Upma Singh
Upma Singh | Navbharat Times
Sat, January 24 2026

23 अगस्त 2023 वह ऐतिहासिक दिन है, जब भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) के वैज्ञानिकों ने चंद्रमा के दक्षिणी ध्रुव पर अपना विक्रम लैंडर उतारकर इतिहास रचा। वो पल जब हर भारतवासी की आंखें खुशी से चमक रही थी, सीना गर्व से चौड़ा हो गया था। भारत चंद्रमा के दक्षिणी ध्रुव पर पहुंचना वाला दुनिया का पहला देश बना। लेकिन इस सफलता से पहले इसरो के वैज्ञानिकों को जुलाई 2019 में चंद्रयान-2 की विफलता भी देखनी पड़ी थी। चंद्रयान 2 की असफलता से चंद्रयान 3 की सफलता के इसी सफर को दिखाती है, TVF की यह नई वेब सीरीज ‘स्पेस जेन: चंद्रयान’।

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