Taking wild liberties with both history and science, Hawaizaada is a film that flies off at a tangent in its ill-advised bid to labour the point that it was an Indian who was the world's first man to fly an aircraft.
The inspiration for writer-director Vibhu Virender Puri's first film is the real-life Shivkar Talpade, a grassroots inventor whose fascination for flying drove him to try the impossible way back in the 1890s almost a decade before the Wright brothers marked the beginning of aviation. But that is where the film's connection with any semblance of reality ends.
The rest of Hawaizaada is a fluffy, over-the-top re-imagining of how the maverick might have fared with his adventures.
If the film is to be believed, Talpade and the woman in his life were actually in the aircraft when it took off over the sea in Mumbai on November 7, 1895.
The original title of Hawaizaada was Bambai Fairytale. Had the makers stuck to it, the film might have been easier to understand. Hawaizaada is after all a musical fantasy that seeks to pass off fiction as reality.
It swings between the severely laboured and the overly flashy all through its running time, which goes beyond the two-and-a-half-hour mark.
30/01/15 PTI/Deccan Herald
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The inspiration for writer-director Vibhu Virender Puri's first film is the real-life Shivkar Talpade, a grassroots inventor whose fascination for flying drove him to try the impossible way back in the 1890s almost a decade before the Wright brothers marked the beginning of aviation. But that is where the film's connection with any semblance of reality ends.
The rest of Hawaizaada is a fluffy, over-the-top re-imagining of how the maverick might have fared with his adventures.
If the film is to be believed, Talpade and the woman in his life were actually in the aircraft when it took off over the sea in Mumbai on November 7, 1895.
The original title of Hawaizaada was Bambai Fairytale. Had the makers stuck to it, the film might have been easier to understand. Hawaizaada is after all a musical fantasy that seeks to pass off fiction as reality.
It swings between the severely laboured and the overly flashy all through its running time, which goes beyond the two-and-a-half-hour mark.
30/01/15 PTI/Deccan Herald
