Talk:Pushpaka Vimana (1987 film)

The 'Reception' section of this article
I believe this section could be omitted, and for two reasons: (i) there are repetitions (the imaginative use of the silent film form is already mentioned in the introduction), (ii) and the statement about it being received critically at the Cannes Film Festival needs qualification (if not, it appears as an unsubstantiated point of view or subjective impression). Also, a link is lacking to IMDB where it is shown that the film has obtained a 9.6 out of 10 ranking. Splashprince 05:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The guideline published by the Films project advices a reception section, which is in any case the sort of thing a reader would want to find at an encyclopaedia. The introduction is supposed to summarise information from the main body of the article, so there may be some overlap with the rest of the article. I'm looking for a source for the Cannes comment, but this is difficult since I've forgotten whether it was me or someone else who inserted that comment. The link to IMDB is in the infobar. Loom91 12:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think until some credible source for the Cannes statement is found, it is not appropriate to include that statement. Moreover, the statement appears subjective, and adulatory of the film's lead actor. With regard to the inclusion of the IMDB average ranking: the fact that the IMDB average rankings can be inputed by almost any visitor of IMDB, and is not the judgement of a recognised film critic/figure, means that little of value could be gleaned from the rank magnitude apart from the fact that it is perhaps popular amongst some group of people (to illustrate using an extreme, a little known movie could have an average ranking of 10 if only one viewer has watched the film and had decided to give it a rank of 10 on IMDB, and so on). I think it is sufficient to retain the weblink to the movie's profile and ranking at IMDB, from which interested readers could make their own judgement. Splashprince 09:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

A Request for a Review of this Wikipedia film Article -- The Issue of Article Conciseness
I'd like to request for a consideration of this Wikipedia film article in terms of conciseness and the credibility of the information contained in it.

As a starting point, the review of readers and editors is requested of the following two versions of this article:


 * 20:10, 13 September 2006 Loom91 (Talk | contribs) (revert unexplained removal of large chunks of undisputed text!)
 * 09:39, 12 September 2006 Splashprince (Talk | contribs) m (Reworded text)

(go to article history link at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pushpak&action=history)

It would be appreciated if feedback could be provided on how this article could be improved, especially from the standpoint of conciseness and information credibility.

For a brief overview of one of the problems suffered by Indian film articles, see under Convention at the WikiProject Indian Cinema page [] Splashprince 07:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 19:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Silent movie in different languages?
Article reads - "This movie was released in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam." It is a silent movie man!!! How can it be released in different languages? -- gp pande  «talk»  08:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

The music
The music for the film was by Vaidhyanathan, not VS Narashiman.

gppande, even though the film was dialogueless, there are a few voices like that of the a short radio broadcast (in a particular language ) railway announcements and those kind of things, and the intro titles are in a particular language. hence it was released in different languages though it is silent. it was not a classical silent film, it was just dialogue less. Ro —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.75.131.138 (talk) 17:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Summary and Cast
The starting of the story in the summary is not written and confuse the readers by starting the story from the middle. We should atleast first include, "the movie follows an unnamed, almost penniless and unemployed youth whose fortunes change when he stumbles upon a millionaire drunk by the roadside. He takes the millionaire prisoner in his house and assumes his identity to taste the luxury of a five-star hotel" Read more at: http://entertainment.oneindia.in/telugu/movies/pushpaka-vimanam/story.html.

In casting Ramya is linked to Ramy Krishnan, which is wrong. Though her name is Ramya, it's not well known actress Ramya Krishnan.

And the article does not include about movie released in other languages. Pesum Padam in Tamil, Pushapaka vimanam in Telugu, Pushpak in Hindi and Pushapaka Vimana in Kannada. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icommoner (talk • contribs) 15:07, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Silent films or Films without speech?
Hi, can anyone please explain,.. this movie is belongs to Silent films or Films without speech? category - Sagotharan Jegadeeswaran (talk) 15:05, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. The film is one with no dialogues. You cannot call it a silent film. When an interviewer for a Kannada television channel calls it a "silent" film, Kamal Hasaan corrects him here. — Editor5454 (talk) 08:20, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , based on Kamal's interview, I've added the film to the category "Films without speech". Please correct me if I am wrong. -- Kailash29792   (talk)  12:34, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , thank you! Yes it has no speech, but has recorded sound (from scenes in the film), in addition to the background music. So, it can definitely not be called a "silent film". Have we arrived at a consensus? Can "silent" from the article be removed? --Editor5454 (talk) 13:49, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes. But can we mention somewhere in the article like, "although widely referred to as a silent film, Kamal has preferred to call it a "dialogue-less film"? (or whatever he said in the interview) -- Kailash29792   (talk)  14:08, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes. But sadly there are probably no articles supporting this argument in the context of this film. Since content in Wikipedia is added only supported by sources, is there room for editors' logic? ;) --Editor5454 (talk) 16:21, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Cannes screenings ?
Pushpaka Vimana was never screened in any of the cannes film festival sections 1986 or 1987 or 1988 including film markets. Please advice User:Jayanthkumar123 to restrain from pov pushings. The sources which are included are predatory sources, the newspaper or media briefs were plagiarised, meaning those authors or journalists copy pasted unsourced content from earlier versions of pushpaka vimana (film) wikipedia article. No primary source from Cannes Festival available.Fostera12 (talk) 10:32, 6 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Better to remove the Cannes info altogether since I can't find any primary sources for the same. Kailash29792 (talk)  04:34, 7 August 2022 (UTC)