Pushpaka Vimana
★ 8.7 · 2017 · 140m · Comedy · Family · Drama
A mentally-challenged father lives in his idyllic world with his daughter, both of them crazy about planes. In his quest to get his daughter that toy plane that she yearns for, he ends up in jail wrongly accused of a crime he doesn't commit. What follows is a bittersweet tale of a father and daughter trying to be together...
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