Skylab Trailer: Nithya Menen's Retro-Comedy Promises To Be A Laughter Ride

Skylab Trailer: The trailer for actor Nithya Menen's comedy Skylab was released on November 6. The film has been co-produced by Menen under her banner Nithya Menen Company. Skylab is set to have a theatrical release on December 4 this year.

Set in the 70s, the comedy is actually based on a real incident. The Telugu film will see Menen in the role of a journalist in search of her big breaking news. Apart from the OK Kanmani actor, the film also features actors  Satyadev, Rahul Ramakrishna, Tanikella Bharani, Tharun Bhascker. Skylab has been written and directed by Vishvak Khanderao, while Prashanth R Vihari is credited as its music director.

What is Skylab about

Set in the Andhra village of Banda Lingampally, Skylab unfolds in the year 1979, when National Aeronautics and Space Administration's space station by the same name crashed on earth. Menen plays the role of Gauri, a zamindar's daughter who aims to create her own identity. The journalist works for a magazine called Prathibhimbham, in Hyderabad and is on the lookout for her big story.

Then there is Anand, a self-centred doctor who always puts his own interest above that of others and returns to his village to open a clinic along with his friend Rama Rao. For Gauri, Anand and Ramarao, the news of NASA's Skylab crashing on earth presents an opportunity that could change their fate for good. But what will it cost the innocent and oblivious villagers?

True origins of a fictional comedy

In 1979, NASA's space station Skylab crashed on earth scattering parts across the Indian ocean. The news of Skylab's impeding crash had created mass hysteria among people of the southern hemisphere as there was no clarity about when and where the debris would fall. On July 11, 1979, when Skylab's debris actually fell on earth, it was scattered d across a sparsely populated 150 km wide section of Western Australia, as per a report by Forbes.

Menen's film intends to introspect this global event from the perspective of a tiny Indian village and its residents.

Check out the film's trailer here:

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