The soundtrack of Kadvi Hawa consists of just one song, Main Banjar, which was composed by Santosh Jagdale, lyrics were written by Mukta Bhatt and sung by Mohan Kannan. The principal photography of the film commenced sometime in the Second quarter of 2016. The makers of the film had decided to cast the in-demand star Sanjay Mishra, Tillotama Shome and Ranvir Shorey in the film. Nila Madhab Panda on the idea behind Kadvi Hawa. I heard from people between 60-70 age group that those hand-pumps were earlier located in the middle of the village. I got a shock when I saw two hand-pumps inside water. But when I reached there, I only saw two of them. In Odisha, there were seven villages on a coastal line. That incident conceived the idea of making this film. The director says that while shooting a Documentary on climate change in Odisha in the year 2005 he came to know about the villages that had disappeared from the coastal line.
Panda had been working on the script of the film for the last 8–9 years. The official announcement of the film was made in the first half of November 2016. The film is based on true stories from drought prone Bundelkhand region and the vanishing villages from coastal Odisha & Chambal region of Dholpur, Rajasthan.