Can astronauts cry in space?

Representative image generated using AI If Farah Khan ever decided to remake Om Shanti Om in space, she would never be able to recreate the iconic Ek Chutki Sindoor moment. Because when Shantipriya is asked to shed a single tear, as her trembling voice delivers the emotionally charged dialogue, it would turn into a disaster. Not because the actor couldn’t express the emotion, but because the drop of the tear would refuse to fall in zero gravity. It would just sit there, clinging to her cheek. And if another tear emerges, it would turn into an uncomfortable blob.That single drop, which is supposed to cascade like a benediction, carrying with it the weight of everything she’s suffered, would instead hover on her face like a question mark. The cinematographer would lose it, and so would Khan. In other words, that iconic moment would simply not exist if the director were to film it in space. This isn’t hypothetical cruelty towards cinema, but the actual physics of crying in space, the strange reality that astronauts endure. Even something as human as crying changes once you leave Earth’s gravity behind.Astronaut ke aansu (tears)… tum kya jaano?In space, astronauts don’t walk or eat the...