 "Sunita Williams Returns To Earth: From Shah Rukh Khan's 'Zero' to George Clooney's 'Gravity'; films to watch about space")
Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and her crewmate, Butch Wilmore, finally returned to Earth after their prolonged nine-month stay at the International Space Station (ISS).
As the news of their safe splashdown reached India, a village in Gujarat erupted in celebration.
This marks the end of a 9-month mission that initially started as a planned week-long test flight but was delayed due to complications with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
Here are the films you can watch on space for the occasion:
Zero
Shah Rukh Khan did a film called Zero where a vertically challenged man chances upon an opportunity to travel all the way to Mars. The outer world is some sort of redemption for him which he didn’t receive on Earth. But it bombed at the box-office.
Talking about its failure, SRK once said, “The hiatus wasn’t because of the films. I’ve always maintained that the day I don’t feel like getting up in the morning and conquering the shoot, I don’t want to work. It wasn’t the failure of the films, to be honest. I was doing a film in January, and this was in December.”
He added, “Very unprofessional of me. I just woke up and I said, ‘I don’t want to go and shoot this film.’ I called the producer and I said to him that I don’t want to work for a year. I just didn’t want to act. I didn’t feel like acting. Because for me, acting is genuinely very, very organic.”
Gravity
This is a film about Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first time on a space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
2001- A Space Odyssey
Humanity discovers a mystifying, artificial object buried underneath the lunar surface. With the assistance of HAL 9000, an intelligent computer, mankind embarks on an interesting quest.
Interstellar
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Apollo 18
Three astronauts are sent by the US for lunar explorations. While collecting moon rock samples, the astronauts encounter eerie happenings, which prevents their return journey to Earth.