Sincerity shows. Honesty pays off. And simplicity stays…in your heart,
forever. If not so, how could Amole Gupte’s just another ‘underdog takes it
all’ drama HAWAA HAWAAI not only manage to entertain, excite and impress you
but also stirs you up with the ruthless reality we are in without being any sympathetic
or sensitive about it. Though slightly superficial in novelty, HAWAA HAWAAI could
definitely be seen as a charmingly emotional story of a distant relative to
Stanley from Gupte’s first directorial drama STANLEY KA DABBA. Moving and
deeply thought-provoking!
HAWAA HAWAAI is all about hope. Hope that blooms and flourishes in the
very odd of life where everyone else would decide to step back! After his
farmer father’s unfortunate death, when Arjun Harishchandra Waghmare [Partho
Gupte in a stellar-performance] - a kid with starry eyes is forced to shift to
the swarming city of dreams Mumbai, he doesn’t hesitate an ounce from taking a
job at local tea-vendor to offload some burden from his single mother. And there,
life blesses him with a hope- a dream to fly not with some pair of wings but
wheels.
HAWAA HAWAAI is about making choices you believe in. Skating is never a
profitable venture one should look up to for all his life. Lucky Bhargava
[Saqib Saleem] has always been told that by his ‘the great American keeda’ brother
and a skating-professional now settled as an investment banker in US, but still
the choice Lucky makes to train a ‘chaiwallah’ is nothing short of chasing his
own dreams cherishing now in Arjun’s eyes.
HAWAA HAWAAI is also about having friends for life. Who would have
thought a gajra-seller, a rag-picker and workers at Car service center & small-time
hand-embroidery factory could ingest so much to make his friend achieve what he
only can dream of! In one sequence; when asked about their individual dreams,
one of them fervently replies, “ek time par ek hich sapna, pehle woh poora kar
lete hain!”
And above all, HAWAA HAWAAI is all about kids. Kids who live, act and
behave in a better manner than most of the adults would do! So when a typical burger-eating
rich kid offers his expensive skating kit to Arjun as he would feel proud to
see him win the competition, you sure feel imparted with the emotion. Partho
Gupte is the most uninhibited performer no less than any established actors in
the list. The kind of sincerity and effortlessness he infuses is mesmerizing
and a textbook material for anyone interested in the business. Saqib impresses
with his ease and confidence. The gang of four kids sweeps away most of the lighter
moments in the film but the one who deserves all the applause is Amole Gupte. His
approach of handling kids with care onscreen is amazing.
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