Films: Of science, the screen & a song

Neelay Mehendale has a brittle sense of humour. While his performance as the protagonist of Cobalt Blue, the Netflix coming-of-age film, has created a buzz, the actor reveals that he is also a scientist from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, whose PhD research centred on the role of lipids in the biological processes pertaining to immunity and brain functioning.