Speculations regarding the debris hitting the earth, especially India, potentially causing mass destruction spread like wildfire. Skylab is based on the true story of NASA’s first space station named Skylab, which was deorbited in 1979. With the technical flourishes so on point, the writing of Vishvak Khanderao, which runs the risk of appearing repetitive, manages to ‘land’ all its intentions towards the end, circumventing the parts of unevenness and monotony. As mentioned earlier, the team's passion finds its way to seep into every scene. Aditya Javvadi’s camera and lighting are in a duet throughout, and yet the frames never come across as flashy (take the scene where Nithya Menen's character meets her former school teacher in the second half and experiences emancipation of sorts). Ravi Teja Girijala’s editing finds simple yet inventive methods to exalt simple scenes and montages.
Prashanth R Vihari’s lovely score wonderfully captures the varying moods without overselling the emotion. Similarly, costume designer Poojita Tadikonda, who has to design for a period setting, doesn’t take the tried-and-tested route of styling men in bottom baggies. Take, for instance, Shivam Rao’s production design that gives a Wes Andersonesque vibe to the interiors, but never appears “artificial”. Starring: Nithya Menen, Satyadev, Rahul Ramakrishna
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