


Nearly 3,000 technicians had worked in this film for almost two years. But since the makers denied permissions from the authorities, the sequence was shot at Versova Beach in Mumbai.
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The team was keen to install the plane at Girgaon Chowpatty, as that was where Shivkar Talpade’s first plane had taken off. 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. From these samples, only 2 small planes will be seen in the film. The team used velvet, wood and canvas that was available at that time including all natural colors in painting the plane, and had to create about 25–30 models before finalizing the plane for the film. 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. The makers of Hawaizaada recreated a plane from scratch as Puri wanted to depict Shivkar Talpade's first plane in all authenticity.

We even designed the plane based on how it was described in the books." So, we used our imagination and recreated them. Director Vibhu Puri stated in an interview, "Many artefacts that we read about aren’t available in this day and age. The team also recreates several antiques. Interested in creating a realistic 1895 setting, the filmmakers re-created an entire city from scratch in Gondal, Gujarat. The film was originally titled Bambai Fairytale.

Before Shivi can complete his machine, British officers arrest him on a complaint made by his brother. The guru gives Shivi a code, "4121", which helps Shivi figure out that mercury will be the best fuel for his engine, since in Hindi the word for "mercury" ( पारा) looks like the number 4121. In his quest to build a perfect flying machine, Shivi goes to Banaras to meet a guru, to whom Shastri used to refer. Shastri's death makes Shivi feel so guilty that he (along with Sitara and Shivi's nephew Narayan) decides to fulfill Shastri's dream. Feeling betrayed, Shastri does not survive this trauma and dies. In order to get Sitara out of debt, Shivi sells Shastri's secret book to a British officer. Shivi later learns that Sitara is back in Bombay, living in poverty and debt. 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. On running out of funds, they ask a local king to sponsor their experiments. Together they work for several months on the flying machine, but they fail again and again. Heartbroken, Shivi goes back to Shastri and accepts his offer to assist him. Shivi later proposes to Sitara, but Sitara resists on the grounds that society will not accept their marriage. Shastri offers to let Shivi be his assistant, but Shivi refuses. Seeing Shivi's great knowledge of the Vedas, Shastri shares with Shivi a secret book of ancient Indian aeronautics, which he is using to build an aeroplane. Shastri is constantly being chased by British soldiers for his weird experiments, but unbeknownst to them, Shastri is secretly building a flying machine. Shivi bumps into a crazy scientist, Pandit Subbaraya Shastri ( Mithun Chakraborty). This makes Shivi's father throw him out of the house. Shivi, falls in love with a local stage dancer named Sitara ( Pallavi Sharda). During the era of the British Raj, a happy-go-lucky school drop-out named Shivkar Bapuji Talpade ( Ayushmann Khurrana), a.k.a.
