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Hawaizaada Movie Review
- 2/2/2015 7:48:13 PM
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Ayushmann Khurrana, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Sharda, Naman JainDirection: Vibhu Virender PuriGenre: DramaDuration
The makers of Hawaizaada are prudent to tell you that this is a work of fiction, though the material at hand is sourced from the life of Marathi scientist Shivkar Talpade, who constructed and flew India's first plane in 1895. The film unfolds in the Bombay Presidency, where Shivi (Ayushmann) - having failed the fourth grade eight-times-over - is keeping his nephew Narayan (Naman) company in the class. A vagabond, Shivi tipples and embarrasses his upright family. An accidental brush with a nautch girl Sitara (Pallavi) has him falling head-over-heels in love with her. When his father throws him out of the house for his wayward lifestyle, he becomes an assistant to Shastri (Mithun), who is secretly experimenting with the idea of making an airplane
After a few failed attempts, the two geniuses build an aircraft. But this has to be kept hidden from the officers of the Raj, as the Britishers don't want Indians to be perceived as 'thinking men' and would like to continue flaunting the world view that they were ruling a country of nincompoops.
Unfortunately, the love story between Shivi and Sitara keeps distracting. You can neither soar with the hero's flying ambition nor can you empathise with his lovelorn plight because the debutant director Vibhu Puri doesn't give you enough to invest in either track. The forced jingoism,
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