Pushpaka Vimana (2017 film)

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.

• 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"

The music and background score for the film is composed by Charan Raj. The soundtrack album contains six songs.

The Times of India rated the film 4 out of 5 and commented, "The film scores high technically. Bhuvan Gowda's fantastic visuals are complemented beautifully by Charan Raj's soulful background score. Their story is no edge-of-the-seat thriller but instead is a wonderful tale of love between a father and daughter, which unfolds in its own pace but keeps you hooked to the screen."[16] Deccan Chronicle saw the film worthy of 3.5/5 and reviewed and called the film to be "flying high on emotion".[17]

Writing to The Hindu, Archana Nathan was critical about the film and called it "A turbulent flight" further remarking that "it relies heavily on dialogue focussing more on telling rather than showing, at times even screaming the sentiment at its audience."[18]

Korea based Kross Pictures filed a copyright infringement case against the makers of the film citing proper remake rights have not been acquired from the production company which holds the rights of the film Miracle in Cell No. 7. However, the director, S. Ravindranath claimed that the film is not a "remake" but is taken inspiration from four films such as Life is Beautiful, I am Sam, Miracle in Cell No. 7 and The Pursuit of Happyness.[19][20] However, the Bombay High Court issued an ad-interim injunction against the exhibition and distribution of the movie as prima facie it found the movie to be a copy of the Korean movie.[21]

• Pushpaka Vimana at IMDb