Mumbai: n a rather ornate-looking laboratory up an attic, a bespectacled Ayushmann Khurrana is busy with his tools. There’s a cylinder, wings and also a set of rotating blades. Using the notes and sketches strewn around, he attempts to piece it all together to build the world’s first flying machine. The scenes are from the theatrical trailer of the film Hawaizaada, where Khurrana essays the role of Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, the man at the centre of discussions at the ongoing Indian Science Congress.
The film, directed by debutant Vibhu Puri, is a “fictional biopic” of Talpade, who some claim constructed and flew the world’s first unmanned flight, based on ancient Indian and Vedic science, in 1895 — “eight years before the Wright brothers did”.
At the ongoing Congress, Captain Anand Bodas, retired principal of a pilot training centre, alongside Ameya Jadhav, lecturer at Mumbai’s Swami Vivekananda International School and Junior College, are set to present a paper on “Ancient Indian Aviation Technology” that will discuss at length Talpade’s science behind his supposed experiment. However, Puri who researched the Mumbai-based scholar, said to have been a professor at the JJ School of Arts, claims information available on Talpade and his craft is contradictory.
04/01/15 Dipti Nagpaul/Indian Express
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The film, directed by debutant Vibhu Puri, is a “fictional biopic” of Talpade, who some claim constructed and flew the world’s first unmanned flight, based on ancient Indian and Vedic science, in 1895 — “eight years before the Wright brothers did”.
At the ongoing Congress, Captain Anand Bodas, retired principal of a pilot training centre, alongside Ameya Jadhav, lecturer at Mumbai’s Swami Vivekananda International School and Junior College, are set to present a paper on “Ancient Indian Aviation Technology” that will discuss at length Talpade’s science behind his supposed experiment. However, Puri who researched the Mumbai-based scholar, said to have been a professor at the JJ School of Arts, claims information available on Talpade and his craft is contradictory.
04/01/15 Dipti Nagpaul/Indian Express
