Hawaizaada(2015)

U2h 37m30 January 2015hindiBiographyDrama

Storyline

Shivkar Bapuji Talpade is on his quest to build the first ever aeroplane by fighting and overcoming the hardships of his personal life.

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The Song 'Udd Jayega' from 'Hawaizaada'

The Song 'Dil-e-Nadaan' from 'Hawaizaada'

The Song 'Maazaa My Lord' from 'Hawaizaada'

The Song 'Daak Ticket' from 'Hawaizaada'

The Theatrical Trailer of 'Hawaizaada'

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Box Office CollectionFlop

Opening Day

₹00.57 Cr

Opening Weekend

₹ 02.00 Cr

First Week

₹03.00 Cr

Lifetime (India)

₹03.00 Cr

Critic Reviews

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BMDB CriticJan 31, 2015
Critic's Rating
5/5

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.

External Reviews

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ndtv.comBy Saibal ChatterjeeJan 30, 2015
Rating
2

A well-intentioned but stodgy cinematic fleshing out of an obscure footnote in aviation history, Hawaizaada takes eons to climb to cruising altitude. When it does get there with excessive load weighing it down, it is pretty much on a wing and a prayer. But that is not to say that writer-director Vibhu Virender Puri's debut film has no wind in its sails. He brings an impressive degree of visual panache to his treatment of the story of maverick 19th century Mumbai inventor Shivkar Talpade.

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rediff.comBy Nishi TiwariJan 30, 2015
Rating
1.5

Towards the end of Vibhu Puri's directorial debut Hawaizaada, the protagonist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade (Ayushmann Khurrana) is bidding his sister-in-law farewell before he finally takes flight. "Tum ja rahe ho (You're leaving)?" the teary-eyed bhabhi asks him. He nods yes. "Fir wapas nahi aaoge (You won't come back)?" she persists.

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firstpost.comBy Mihir FadnavisJan 30, 2015

Hawaizaada claims to be the story of Shivkar Talpade, a Maharasthrian scientist from the 1860s, who supposedly built the world's first unmanned aircraft, almost a decade before the Wright brothers. The film should have been called 'Hawe me zyada', because it takes a ton of creative liberties to dole out a completely fictional story using a real person. That is still permissible, because historical movies seldom follow facts in a bid to make the story more entertaining. What isn't acceptable is that Hawaizaada is the most excruciatingly boring movie we've seen in recent times.

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koimoi.comBy Surabhi RedkarJan 30, 2015
Rating
1.5

Thanks to this film, there will be ample of people spamming Google to learn about the unsung hero Shivkar Bapuji Talpade and his aviation discovery. Also the design team of the film will have to be credited for their work since re-creating the 1800s had to be a task.

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BollywoodHungama.comBy Bollywood HungamaJan 30, 2015
Rating
1.5

Whenever we speak of 'Indians and Inventions', the first thing that pops in our mind is that of the legendary Aryabhatta and his invention of 'zero'. Amidst all these great inventors and discoverers, there have been many a unsung hero, who never got their required due. This week's release Vibhu Virender Puri's HAWAIZAADA is one film which speaks about one such unsung Indian hero who made the world's first aeroplane, years before the Wright Brothers. Does Vibhu do justice to this real-life unsung hero through the medium of the film?

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deccanchronicle.comBy Kusumita DasJan 30, 2015
Rating
1.5

Barring some documents regarding his research, there is no absolute scientific or historic proof that Mumbai scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade actually flew the first plane known to mankind in the year 1895, eight years before the globally acknowledged aviation pioneers, the Wright brothers did, in 1903. Director Vibhu Puri obviously had a lot of faith in his own research, enough to make 'Hawaizaada', that traces Shivkar's journey to the skies. Now had the film been as convincing as his faith, the dubiousness of the claim could have been ignored. But in this case, it just sticks out like a sore thumb.

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