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''Vimaanam'' () is a 2017 Indian
Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...
-language
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film written and directed by Pradeep M. Nair. The film stars
Prithviraj Sukumaran Prithviraj Sukumaran (Help:IPA/Malayalam, /pr̩t̪ʰʋiɾaːd͡ʒ/; born 16 October 1982) is an Indian actor, producer, director, and playback singer who primarily works in Malayalam cinema, in addition to Tamil cinema, Tamil, Bollywood, Hin ...
and Durga Krishna. The film was released on 22 December 2017. This film is said to be loosely based on the life of Saji Thomas, who can neither hear nor speak, but designed and built a lightweight aircraft.


Plot

Professor J. Venkiteshwaran receives a
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for the designs of planes he built for the
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. Venkiteshwaran receives a phone call from his old love interest Janaki's daughter, Gouri, who requests him to meet her terminally ill mother, as it is her final wish. Whilst on the train back to his hometown, the film goes into a flashback. A young Venkiteshwaran, known as Venkidi, has often dropped-out of school despite his intelligence due to bullying for his use of a hearing aid. He has a love of aircraft and has been attempting to fly an aircraft that he built himself, which he fails at. He falls in love with Janaki, who supports his dreams. Venkidi decides to build a new aircraft with the help of Janaki and steals her father's car for the aircraft parts. Venkidi is successful in building the aircraft and flies it over his village, however he crashes the aircraft, injuring his arm. Janaki's father learns of her love for Venkidi and forbids her from seeing him. Venkidi fixes the aircraft and flies it for the second time safely. Janaki's father learns that Venkidi stole his car and gets him arrested. In his jail cell, Venkidi learns that Janaki is being sent to Singapore to her relatives for higher studies and will be getting married. Venkidi who has been imprisoned for many days is allowed to visit Janaki. He then proceeds to take his aircraft and flies past Janaki before she boards her flight. He crash lands the aircraft at the airport and as he is escorted by police officers, he sees Janaki for one last time. In the present, he arrives at his hometown and is visited by Janaki and her daughter. Venkidi fullfills his dream of flying his old aircraft with Janaki.


Cast

*
Prithviraj Sukumaran Prithviraj Sukumaran (Help:IPA/Malayalam, /pr̩t̪ʰʋiɾaːd͡ʒ/; born 16 October 1982) is an Indian actor, producer, director, and playback singer who primarily works in Malayalam cinema, in addition to Tamil cinema, Tamil, Bollywood, Hin ...
as Venkiteshwaran (Venkidi) **Eric Anil as Young Venkidi * Durga Krishna as Janaki * Anarkali Marikar as Gouri, Janaki's daughter *
Alencier Ley Lopez Alencier Ley Lopez is an Indian film and theatre actor, who appears in Malayalam films. Lopez made his debut in the 1998 film '' Daya''; and he worked in films like '' Annayum Rasoolum'' (2013), '' Njan Steve Lopez'' (2013), and '' Maheshinte P ...
as Roger *
Saiju Kurup Saiju Govinda Kurup (born 12 March 1979) is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam and Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri ...
as Ananthan *
Sudheer Karamana Sudheer Karamana (born 24 May 1971) is an Indian actor who appears mainly in Malayalam cinema. He is the son of actor Karamana Janardanan Nair. Personal life He is the eldest son to actor Karamana Janardanan Nair and Jaya, at Karamana, Thiruv ...
as Murugan *
Major Ravi Major A. K. Raveendran SM (born 13 June 1958) is a retired officer of the Indian Army, former National Security Guard commando, film actor and film director predominantly works in Malayalam cinema and some films in Tamil and Hindi. He was aw ...
as Elias * Lena as Daisy * P. Balachandran as Priest * Liya Anu as Radha * Baby Durga Premjith *
Dheepa Ramanujam Dheepa Ramanujam is an Indian entrepreneur and actress who appears in Tamil films. Career Dheepa Ramanujam forayed into acting with K. Balachander's television serial ''Premi'', while made her acting debut with a small role in the Rajinikanth ...
as Venkidi's mother * Vijilesh Karayad as Venkidi's friend


Production

''Vimaanam'' is a film involving high VFX works for the flying scenes. The film will have two time periods with Prithviraj appearing in two different looks. Reportedly, he will be reducing weight for the role and will also be taking flying courses. Principal photography commenced on 9 February 2017 in
Kochi Kochi ( , ), List of renamed Indian cities and states#Kerala, formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the Ernakulam district, district of Ernakulam in the ...
,
Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...
. The main filming locations was
Bhatkal Bhatkal is a coastal town in the Uttara Kannada District of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bhatkal lies on National Highway 66, which runs between Mumbai and Kanyakumari, and has Bhatkal railway station which is one of the major railway ...
and
Mangalore Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the st ...
, and was also shot in
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,
Mysore Mysore ( ), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Mysore district and Mysore division. As the traditional seat of the Wadiyar dynasty, the city functioned as the capital of the ...
, and
Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...
. ''Vimaanam'' is loosely based on the life of Saji Thomas, who could neither hear nor speak but who designed and built his own
ultralight aircraft Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and Aircraft flight control system, conventional three-a ...
. Two films were released about the life of Saji Mathew, the other film being titled ''Aby''.


Music

The music was composed by Gopi Sunder. The lyrics were written by
Rafeeq Ahamed Rafeeq Ahamed (born 17 December 1961) is an Indian poet, lyricist and novelist. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry and is a six-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyrics. With more than 600 songs to his cr ...
.


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* {{IMDb title, 6346952 2017 films Indian aviation films Films shot in Thiruvananthapuram Films shot in Mangalore Films shot in Mysore Films shot in Karnataka Films shot in Delhi 2010s Malayalam-language films