Brilliantly executed 'immersive' experience. A big thumbs up!!

Rating: 9/10 (7 November 2014)

Christopher Nolan deserves a toast for Interstellar. How on earth (!) did he manage to pull it off? After the compelling Gravity (2013), Interstellar is perhaps the most gripping space adventure to hit the silver screen. This inter-galactic space saga is bound to achieve a lot more than merely creating new milestones at the box office. The movie begins without much of a foundation but within minutes we get to know that the story is set in the near future with humanity on the verge of getting wiped out. No melodrama here. All the characters seem to be resigned to the fate of turning farmers, abandoning their pre-apocalypse professions. Matthew McConnaghey plays Cooper, an ex-pilot, now growing corn. It is also suggested that mankind does not need engineers anymore but more farmers to feed the remaining humankind. Cooper grapples with his daughter's teacher at the parent-teacher meeting, where the shocked teacher reveals that Murphy had discussed with her classmates about the authenticity of the moon landing. Efforts are being made to wean away people from science. Earth has been turned into a giant dust bowl and the only means of survival seems to produce as much food as you can. The family is in fact shown eating all preparations made of corn while having lunch.
Michael Caine yet again features in a Nolan movie and plays the senior Dr. Brand. He somehow convinces Cooper to join a near impossible mission of going through a wormhole adjacent to Saturn to look for habitable planets in some other galaxy. Some trial expeditions have already been deployed. Data is scant but promising. There is a lot of techno-babble in the movie but it is simplified as much as possible. While in space Cooper grapples with getting separated from his family, the prospect of not seeing them ever again, treachery, aging I cannot reveal more here.
I have read in some reviews that the science depicted in this movie is spot on. I am not surprised. Michael Crichton, the master of sci-fi, always said that good science fiction always had its roots in good science. At the end, this is a father-daughter saga with a very strong premise, assured handling, brilliant performances, fantastic music and out-of-the-world VFX. I understand Nolan is against using the green screen and he also shunned the idea to shoot in 3d. Brilliant. Such conviction!
I was surprised and happy to see the Indian Air Force Drone in American skies! New Delhi is mentioned once.
Just go for it.