'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.

[5] During the era of the British Raj, a happy-go-lucky school drop-out named Shivkar Bapuji Talpade (Ayushmann Khurrana), a.k.a.

Shivi, falls in love with a local stage dancer named Sitara (Pallavi Sharda).

Finally, they manage to build a small aeroplane and have a successful unmanned test flight in the presence of eyewitnesses — but it crashes within a few seconds.

In order to get Sitara out of debt, Shivi sells Shastri's secret book to a British officer.

In his quest to build a perfect flying machine, Shivi goes to Banaras to meet a guru, to whom Shastri used to refer.

[9] Interested in creating a realistic 1895 setting, the filmmakers re-created an entire city from scratch in Gondal, Gujarat.

Director Vibhu Puri stated in an interview, "Many artefacts that we read about aren’t available in this day and age.

For this, the team of Hawaizaada did extensive research on the products used in ancient times for making the plane that is shown in the film.

Also, In order to maintain the authenticity of the era and avoid fabrication, the makers kept every single detail in mind to re-create the plane.

[13] Ayushmann Khurrana learned Marathi lines for the film, based on the character of Marathi-scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade.

[14] Director Puri and his team did many look tests for Ayushmann Khurrana and Mithun Chakraborty, and the former tried on nine different hairstyles for this film.

"[18] Anupama Chopra gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, stating "Vibhu has designed Hawaizaada to be an all-purpose vehicle that has romance, comedy and drama .

The soundtrack of Hawaizaada features ten songs with three of them were composed by Rochak Kohli and four by Mangesh Dhakde.

[26] Vishal Bhardwaj was invited as a guest composer for the song "Dil Todne Ki Masheen" which is sung by Rekha Bharadwaj.