Ishwak Singh, who plays physicist Dr Vikram Sarabhai in the upcoming Season 2 of SonyLIV’s Rocket Boys, spent weeks researching to prepare for the role, the actor said in a statement on Wednesday.

“I prepared for Vikram Sarabhai with a multi-pronged approach. I wanted to know him inside out — from his childhood days in Ahmedabad to his education in Cambridge, the various aspects of his personal and professional life. It was like going back to school as I ended up reading science text books, geeked out on lectures by MIT professor Walter Lewin, studied about ISRO, the making of the bomb and modern history,” said Ishwak, known for his performance in Amazon Prime Video’s Patal Lok and Season 1 of SonyLIV’s Rocket Boys.

Ishwak said he had to study the basics of rocket science and its evolution in order to do justice to the role of Vikram Sarabhai, regarded as the father of the Indian space programme.

“I got to know about pioneers like Tsiolkovsky Goddard and Wernher von Braun. But while I was going about doing peripheral and prep work, I'd keep coming back to the script which was sacrosanct for me and was carved out so meticulously by Abhay Pannu,” said Ishwak.

“He had done immense research and had interwoven the highlights of Vikram Sarabhai's life beautifully in the story. What encapsulates Vikram Sarbhai is that he was a man of science and that's how I played him,” the actor added.

Recently SonyLIV dropped the teaser of Rocket Boys Season 2, which mostly focuses on the Pokhran nuclear test story. Ishwak will be playing a pivotal role in the series.

Apart from Rocket Boys 2, the actor will be seen in an upcoming spy thriller Berlin, which is written and directed by Atul Sabharwal and produced by Zee Studios. It will also have Aparshakti Khurana as his co-star. He also recently finished shooting for Bas Karo Aunty, a film which is based on Varun Agarwal’s bestselling book How I Braved Anu Aunty.