Pushpaka Vimana

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Ramesh Aravind as Anantaramaiah
• Rachita Ram as Puttalakshmi
• Yuvina Parthavi as young Puttalakshmi
• Ravi Kale
• Mandeep Roy
• Rockline Sudhakar
• Manjunath
• K. S. Sridhar
• Juhi Chawla in a special appearance in song “Jhilka Jhilka”

Storyline:

The story begins when a young lawyer opens a closed case. She tells that the man who was punished for a rape and murder in that case was innocent and had no fault of his. She reveals herself as the daughter of that man when the court asks for proof. A intellectually-disabled man (Ramesh Arvind) is from a family of army employees and wants to continue the same. But his mental disability does not give a chance to fulfill it. He owns a rickshaw and runs it to feed himself and his daughter (Baby Yuvina). They have a lovely life. They both are saving money to buy a toy plane liked by the daughter. Eventually they are near the shop to buy it but have a small amount less so they thought of buying it the next day. But to their horror the daughter of a police chief desires the same plane and it was bought the very next moment leading the man to fight with the police. Next day while the man was driving his rickshaw he meets the same girl and she promises him to guide him to another shop where he can get a similar plane. But she is found to be dead and the man raping that girl was seen live by a woman and was reported to the police. He was arrested and his daughter left the house. She was then living in a charity school and had a connection to her father. Slowly the police in-charge of the jail and the man’s cellmates understood he was just trying to first aid the child as he was taught in a public program. The all show mercy on him but the dead girl’s father threatens him to accept that all fault was his or he would kill the man’s daughter. So he accepted the crime in the court and was told to be hanged. He was hanged in an injustice manner. The jail in-charge who had lost his child adopted the man’s daughter and made her a lawyer as per her wish. The court considers that the man had no fault and was innocent. She then thanks everyone and she was happy to prove her father was innocent.

About Movie:

• Pushpaka Vimana is a Indian Kannada drama film directed by S. Ravindranath, making his debut.
• The film stars Ramesh Aravind, acting in his 100th Kannada film, as the protagonist playing the father role. Rachita Ram and Baby Yuvina Parthavi play the daughters role.
• Prominent Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla is seen in a song sequence, marking her re-entry to Kannada films after 18 years.
• Early reports of the film emerged in December 2015 that actor Ramesh Aravind would feature in a new film which has the title of the 1987 silent film Pushpaka Vimana. Initially apprehensive about using the same title, the team later decided to go ahead with the same as the story would connect to the title.
• On 15 January 2016, a teaser was released which saw the 2minutes 37seconds of video showing the emotional attachment between the father played by Ramesh and his daughter played by Yuvina. Upon the release of teaser, huge appreciations poured in from different quarters particularly pointing out Ramesh’s acting along with Bhuvan’s cinematography. The teaser was shown to Juhi Chawla before signing her into the film.
• Pushpaka Vimana was theatrically released on 6 January 2017.
• The film was reported to be in contention for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars, though it did not enter the long list and short-list.
• The film is an unofficial remake of the 2013 South Korean movie Miracle in Cell No. 7 and lost the copyright infringement case against Kross Pictures.