Vimanam (2017)
വിമാനം
"To fly was his dream... To love was his destiny!"
A speech and hearing impaired man fights against enormous odds to build a lightweight aircraft from recycled materials.
- Date of release
- 2017-12-22
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 2h 27m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Pradeep M. Nair
Casting
- Prithviraj Sukumaran — Venkideswaran
- Durga Krishna — Janaki
- Alencier Ley Lopez — Rojer
- Anarkali Marikar — Gouri
- P Balachandran — Fr. Vincent
- Sudheer Karamana — Murugan
- Saiju Kurup — Ananthan
- Lenaa — Mable
- Durga Premjith — Young Janaki
- Dheepa Ramanujam — Indhira
- Sanjana Sajan — Murugan's daughter
- Major Ravi — Elias
Interesting facts
Vimaanam (transl. Airplane) is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film written and directed by Pradeep M. Nair. The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran and Durga Krishna. The film was released on 22 December 2017.
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, Kerala. The main filming locations was Bhatkal and Mangalore, and was also shot in Delhi, Mysore, and Thiruvananthapuram.
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. Two films were released about the life of Saji Mathew, the other film being titled Aby.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Fast Girls 2012 · ★ 6.0
- Blue Chips 1994 · ★ 6.1
- Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius 2004 · ★ 5.9
- Eleanor the Great 2025 · ★ 6.8
- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942 · ★ 6.6
- The River 1984 · ★ 6.4
- Flicka 2006 · ★ 6.9
- Jimmy P. 2013 · ★ 6.1
- Kid Galahad 1962 · ★ 6.2
- Skater Girl 2021 · ★ 7.2
- Won't Back Down 2012 · ★ 6.2
- Head Full of Honey 2018 · ★ 6.4