Rocket Boys actor Jim Sarbh on not seeking validation on social media: ‘Don’t care about all of that, I just like acting’

Homi J Bhabha was called the architect of India’s atomic energy programme. He has two noted institutions in his name including the Homi Bhabha National Institute and the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education.

From the beginning of his career, Jim has impressed with his various roles, be it of a terrorist in Neerja, a cunning friend in Sanju, or a cheating husband in Made In Heaven. But, it is the first time that he is playing a real-life character and for him it is easier get the character right. “It’s easier to get all the puzzle pieces together. You can hear anecdotes, read about their lives, read people’s impressions of the character, listen to their speeches, so basically you get a blueprint,” Jim opined in an interview with indianexpress.com.

But the 34-year-old actor suggests that if a fictional character is written well, then the “approach is similar”.
“The approach, at the end of the day, becomes similar if a fictional character is also written well and their approach to life is also been clearly depicted.”

However, playing the physicist was easier for Jim as just like Homi Bhabha, the actor too has Parsi roots. “Probably it made it easier for me to understand the world,” he said while adding that he did many workshops to get the ways of the character correct and to learn the scientific jargon in Hindi, which proobably was the toughest task for him.

But what made the task tougher for the actor was the outbreak of coronavirus. “There were many stops and starts. There were Covid-19 regulations, then suddenly it went into a lockdown and then it opened again,” Jim shared while talking about the challenges of working amid the pandemic. He added, “Then if someone might get Covid, shoot gets delayed, so you have to keep changing the schedule, rejigging things, sometimes you have to shoot a scene which you haven’t gotten a chance to prepare, so all of these are the challenges.”

After Rocket Boys, Jim is looking for a couple of other releases in the upcoming months, which include a film and a web series about which the actor can’t talk right now. But ask him, after doing so much work and having a lot in his kitty, does he not crave for people’s attention and admiration on social media? He replied, “I don’t care about all of that. Should I? I just like acting, that’s where my interest and my thoughts lie.”

Jim concluded the interview by sharing an update on the much-awaited second season of Amazon Prime Video’s hit series, Made In Heaven. He said, “We are filming it.”