Hawaizaada

Hawaizaada
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVibhu Puri
Screenplay by
  • Vibhu Puri
  • Saurabh Bhave
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySavita Singh
Edited byShan Mohammed
Music byScore:
Monty Sharma
Songs:
Rochak Kohli
Mangesh Dhakde
Vishal Bhardwaj
Ayushman Khurrana
Production
companies
Trilogic Media
Film Farmers
Distributed byReliance Entertainment
Release date
  • 30 January 2015 (2015-01-30)
Running time
157 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget250 million[citation needed]

Hawaizaada (transl. 'Airborne') is a 2015 Indian Hindi drama film written, directed and produced by Vibhu Puri along with Reliance Entertainment.[1] Inspired by the biography of Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, the film stars Ayushmann Khurrana, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Sharda.[2] Talpade, a resident of Bombay, is claimed to have constructed and flown an unmanned, heavier-than-air aircraft in 1895. Contemporary accounts of a successful flight do not exist, and no reliable historical records document its existence.[3][4] The film depicts Talpade successfully conducting a manned flight.[3] It was released on 30 January 2015. The film was declared tax-free in Uttar Pradesh.[5]

  1. ^ "'Hawaizaada' special film for Ayushmann Khurrana". mid-day.com. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  2. ^ Hungama, Bollywood. "Featured Movie News – Featured Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015.
  3. ^ a b Deb, Siddhartha (15 May 2015). "Those Mythological Men and Their Sacred, Supersonic Flying Temples". The New Republic. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  4. ^ Ganesan, Ranjita (10 January 2015). "The aviator?". Business Standard India. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Hawaizaada declared tax free in Uttar Pradesh – Times of India ►". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 January 2020.