Hawaizaada Review

One Line Review: Grandeur style of a cinematic recitation

Positive Points: Good performances by the actors and opulent locations which suit the concept

Negative Points: Lame jokes and unwanted diversions from the plot

Plot: The movie picks up exuding the 19th century down lane, during 1895, with the introduction of Indian Scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade (played by Ayushman Khurana) who is on his ambitious venture of crafting an aeroplane. Shivkar is a tenuous and lethargic student in studies and is thrown out of house by his landlord father false-perceiving his concepts and ideologies. But he dreams big. Sitara Devi (played by Pallavi Sharda) is a dancer. Shivkar is exhilarated to Sitara. His dream is to make an aeroplane but he hardly invests time to materialise it. On the contrary, he is madly in love with Sitara who distracts him from more often. His out of the world perceptions and intentions infuriates the Britishers. Shastri (played by Mithun Chakraborty) who lives is a trashy wooden ship also known as a mad scientist is an aficionado who had written off his plans to create a plane years ago. Shastri is a stalwart scientist who spends wakeful dusks to improvise his conceptualizations and conjectures. On the go, Shastri once meets Shivkar and impressed by his tactics puts a proposal to collaborate with his to build the aircraft which the ambition of both of them. The nerdy Shivkar who comes from a family comprising of landlords habituated to a hedonistic living style is so much insanely in love with the dancer Sitara that he loses focus in his project. Realizing this, Sitara swerves away to help him conquer his navigational dream while his howling father (played by Jayant Kriplani), mother (played by Natasha Sinha) and dominating sister-in-law (played by Priyanka Sethia) demotivates him unconditionally labelling him as a loser. Withstanding the sorrow of having lost his lover, he transforms into a frantic alcoholic with his tad diminishing dream of creating the flying transit object. Will he be able to create the aeroplane with the help of Shastri forms the rest of the plot.

Direction and other technical aspects: Debutant director Vibhu Puri has tried his best to put a cinema which was intended to be a biopic artistic masterpiece but really didnot reach up to that level. Cinematography and camera is handled by Savita Singh (wife of Puri in real life) that brings life to each and every frame with bright colors and picturesque backdrops. Shan Mohammed's editing is poor and inconsistent dragging the running time by creating slow motions of rain and dew drops much to infuriate the viewers.

Performances: Ayushman Khurana though has given his career's best performance is sometimes shown as a funny caricature which dilutes the seriousness of the plot. Crinkling his nose and rubbing his sleepy eyes with owl like round spectacles also resembling Ranbir Kapoor from Barfi! and sometimes imitating the behavioural pattern of Charlie Chaplin are hilarious to watch. Pallavi Sharda, the actress in lead is superlatively gorgeous and she graces the screen with her beauty and delicate appearance. Her previous film "Besharam" had very little scope for delivering an impressive performance but it is compensated here. There's even the veteran Mithun Chakraborty wearing curly hair wig and laughter that is so artificial. Whereas, Naman Jain, the new comer steals the show with his sincere and genuine performance.

Music: The music department handled by music director Rochak Kohli is surely remarkable and needs to be applauded. "Hawaaizaada Dil" sung by the director himself is an average track. "Maazaa my lord" sung my Mohit Chauhan and Neeti Mohan is a peppy number. "Udd Jayega" Sukhwinder Singh and Ranadeep Bhasker, "Dil Todneki Machine" sung by Rekha Bhardwaj, "Yaadein Gathri Mein" sung by Harshdeep Kaur are moderately good enough to sync in pace with the movie. "Turram Khan" sung by Papon, the actor Ayushman Khurana and Monali Thakur, "Teri Dua Wadali" sung by "Wadali Brothers, Lakhwinder Wadali and Harshdeep are fast numbers. But the tracks that made the difference are "Daak Ticket" sung by Javed Bashir and Mohit Chauhan; "Dil-E-Nadaan" sung by Ayushman Khurana. Both these songs were extremely melodic and soothing which are surely tracks to get loaded into music-fantasizing population.

Final Verdict: This movie is surely a one-time watch for the efforts invested by debutant director Vibhu Puri.