Hawaa Hawaai Review

One Line Review: Emotional delight with enthusiasm to garnish the serve.

Positive Points: Unique script, amazing performances, brilliant screenplay, sheer art direction and the list concludes by proving the film to nearly be a flawless feature.

Negative Points: Finding it hard to find, a couple of long stretched shots freezes the frame, but a blink bring the motion back on track. Emphasizing bit more up on its music could have had added moons to its glory.

Plot: The curtain raise up to a young boy Arjun (Partho Gupte) living in the slums of Dharavi along with his mother, a little sister and an aging grandmother. The situation there itself depicts that the family lacks the shadow of the earning man, his father. As the reel continues, the young lad has to fill the gaps left out by his dad and start working at a tea stall to earn his leaving along with his mom working as a maid. Gelled up with his routine, Arjun finds peace in the company of a bunch of friends leading a same life (child labor) alike him.

Dragging his trial ahead, Arjun finally hits a rock of astonishment when he sees his workplace, which is a plush parking lot turning into a skating arena in the dusk. Dozens of children perfecting their skills on wheels, Lucky (Saqib Saleem) nurtures their talent as a coach. Dreaming with wide eyes, Arjun has now created a world of himself in the sounds of dragging wheels and his friends plan to make it a reality. Grabbing things from scrap, the kids finally build a pair of skates but what desperately was required was the expertise, Lucky sir.

Arjun showcasing his talent on the 'kaam chalau' skates which impresses the master, Lucky and hence his journey towards becoming a champ rolls ahead. Merely, as iron rests in coal to get the perfect shape, Arjun's journey too heats up as the hammer of success nears to carve his future.

Direction and Other Technical Aspects: Producer/ Writer/ Director Amole Gupte is back with yet another delicious treat with his favorite specialty, kids. It's second in a row when the Gupte dynasty, Amol and his son Partho would be sharing their skills together after 'Stanley Ka Dabba'. Amol seems to have mastered his forte of children oriented films thus, clearly flashes on screen. Amol has done a lot of home work with his script to gain good grades and so does with his direction.

The screenplay is nearly flawless and runs smoothly throughout the end. Editing too has done wonders, which makes the motion a treat to watch. The unfolding backdrop of the characters keeps the viewers glued to their seats along with amazing penning of some heart touching dialogues which are simple and casual yet say a lot through it, for example when a kid is asked, "Don't you feel you to go to a school, then why are you working" and the poor soul clearly replies back, "Kaam pe nahi jaayega toh khayega kya... Kitab!" merely depicts the emotion simultaneously broadens your lips to a smile. Many such simplicities have created a unique texture all together and has kept the feature simple yet triumphs to win hearts.

Performances: The beauty of the film lies here, where the characters are brought to life with some astonishing performances from the actors. Starting off the sail, Partho Gupte, the face of the film essaying Arjun, the son of dead farmer is brilliant. Young blood has splashed gems out of his performance of a poor, need yet dreamy guy who wants to make it big but, totally upon his courage and passion.

Second in the row, Saqib Saleem as the coach Lucky perfectly suits the character with his athletic body type. Yet another gem from the younger lot of marvelous performance, Saqib nails the stroke with his dual shaded character portraying emotions of a sound gentle guy along with toughness of a superlative coach, Saleem fits in the shoes of the character perfectly.

Nevertheless, the supporting star cast, Makarand Deshpande as Arjun's father along with four kids (Arjun's friends) and Arjun's mother portrayed by Neha Joshi, has delivered some finest performance that has made this flick climb up the success ladder.

Music: Amole Gupte seems to be in no mood to leave a segment untouched, so what the talent house has landed up in to the recording studio as well. Composing the tracks for his home production, Amol has been brilliant here as well with a decent track list merely, just a couple like "Ghum Gayi" and "Sar Uthake Jee" are the tracks that remain at the back of your head among the whole track list of five tracks. The background score too equally rubs the motion well enough to create warmness and hence could be called up to the mark, declaring Amole to be a 'jack of all trades'.

Final Verdict: Indian cinema has been criticized for the typical masala outings, singing and dancing around the trees and so on for decades now... however, new bunch of talents have changed the scenario forever and this feature is one among them that surely adds a feather of glory to the hat of cinema dawned by our nation in its 100th year. Simple yet motivating, the feature gulps the thirst of ace filmmaking.