Today I watched a movie which is directed by Vibhu Virender Puri, and the movie stars Ayushmann Khurana, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Sharda "HAWAIZAADA", which translated to "flying man", and it is based on the life of an Indian scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, here’s the plot-:
It is said that before Wright Brother invented the 1st flying plane, it is an Indian scientist Shivkar who actually made the first ever unmanned plane before Wright Brothers. Shivkar aka Shivi(Ayushmann Khurana) is a guy who don’t believe in studies, and he is failed 8 times in class 4th, still in same class, one day he met love of his life Sitara(Pallavi Sharda), who is a pros*tute, and he also falls in the hand of another scientist Pandit Shastri(Mithun Chakraborty), who has an ancient book with him explaining the vimana aka planes design based on Hindu vedas-related vimanas, and who wanted to make planes, but it comes to his destiny to complete that dream, he is obviously very talented.
This is Vibhu Puri’s first film, though he has earlier made a short film named "Chabiwali Pocket Watch", and I must agree to one point, that direction is good, though it could be better in some scenes, snd some scenes including english actors. Ayushmann was good, he looks a perfect lost yet talented character, and Mithun da was awesome. One more thing which I liked in the movie was the set design and recreation of 1890’s era, I liked the ship set with sea and orangish skyline, and the setup inside which looks inspired by an old time scientist’s room, even the main character Shivi displayed the Sherlock-type talents, but those scenes are good, and give the movie authenticity and the matter to watch for. The child artist was also good. The sets and the story remind me of Marathi cinema, I’ve observed that Marathi film-makers usually like to make films on actually-different stories and setups, I have watched 2 of them and knew about few more, which is much better film-making than bollywood. Plus here the director has shown the art in film-making(300 type)
Now let’s come to many negatives of this movie, film has many flaws, many unexplained things for e.g. British officers were not able to find the scientist home and many others, which could be avoided. But we can ignore that, other biggest issue with the movie is its loooong duration, the movie is 2 hrs 35 min long, and that too for a little story, guess how they fill it, come on, well, 9 songs are there, 5 before interval, 4 after that. The songs are okay okay, not much to enjoy, normal. and 2nd half let down the movie. 1st half was longer yet there was 3/4th of the plotline to cover, now 1.5 hrs take 3/4th of the plotline, there only remains 1/4th story to cover in 1 hr, hence it just elongated like elastic, had the movie was shorter by half-1 hr it was a much much better watch. In the end the movie took the path of indian independence feel, which is okay but over-shown, instead of covering the main story. The movie started well, and the starting scene was awesome, even the background score was apt and it was kind of fantasy score.
I am not able to decide whether I should recommend it or not, you decide, I think you should watch it for the Indian inventor, but if you can’t handle musicals, and long-duration movies, you should avoid it instead, I will rate the movie as 2.5/5
GRuchirG.
Jai Raam ji ki:)