The film is truly spectacular on the account of visuals. The production design is one of greatest in recent Hindi films. The sets, the artistic props, the designing is really commendable. With great production design, comes greatest in cinematography. Kudos to Savita Singh's cinematography brilliance that made this film looks totally a visual treat. Seriously, I have not seen such beautiful frames in recent times, without VFX. The basic concept was well thought too.But, with all these superb things in hand, the film doesn't able to make to what it could be. The screenplay got messed up in the film's way to make it under historical event. Yeah, it could have been one of the greatest film in Hindi film industry. But, it all lacks at film's narrative part. The characters been so melodramatic about each situation makes a regular Hindi film, which it should not be.The director looses his brilliant idea by indulging more of a melodramatic romantic recipe into it. The film paces up in between, dialogue teaches us good. But, when the flight tries to be up high, it gets lost in the romantic clouds. It sees a great potential journey suffering from jet-lag here.It should be pure epic exploring the core idea more, yet it is somewhat inspirational.

Vibhu Puri's 'Hawaizaada' is a highly ambitious, well-made film, but its uneven overall. A look at the life of scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, this period piece is visually appealing, but too many songs & a stretched romantic-track, hit the film hard. 'Hawaizaada' is Based on the life on an Indian scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, who is credited to have constructed India's first unmanned plane is the tale of the hardships that he went through on the journey to discover. 'Hawaizaada' needed to be more about Talpade & his Mentor's genius, rather than being a romantic-story about Talpade & his lady-love. Being a biopic, you except the film to be a detailed take on Talpade's journey about the scientist that he was, not who he romanced. Also, there are too many songs in the film. In fact, the first-hour has a song popping up every 10-minutes. Vibhu Puri's Screenplay has moments of power, when the film actually talks about Talpade's ambition, but is mostly side-lined by its stilted romantic-track. Less of romance & more of drama would've made 'Hawaizaada' a biopic to reckon with. But sadly, that doesn't happen here! Vibhu Puri's Direction, however, is stunning. In terms of visuals, 'Hawaizaada' is a beauty. Each & Every Frame has been captured beautifully, there is not a single dull frame in this biopic. The Cinematography is top-class & The Art Design is incredibly accurate. Editing is not sharp at all. The film is lazily paced & a bit too long. The Songs are melodious, but appear forced in the film.Performance-Wise: Ayushmann Khurrana as Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, delivers a terrific performance. He rises above the faulty script & manages to keep the proceedings alive to a large extend, thanks to his impressive portrayal of the late legend in science. Mithun Chakraborty dominates every scene he appears in. As Ayushmann's eccentric mentor, he's exceptional. Pallavi Sharda as Ayushmann's lady love, looks gorgeous, but is saddled with the film's weakest track, & hence, she doesn't leave a mark. On the whole, 'Hawaizaada' is made with passion, no doubt, but a stronger script was the need of the day!

Shivkar (ayushmann) is a lazy and imbecile person who is snubbed by his father (jayant) constantly. His studies are so poor that he ends up in the same class as his nephew (naman jain). Things change when Shivkar sees Sitara (pallavi) and falls in love with her. Knowing this, his father drives him away and Shivkar lands with the eccentric scientist Shastri (mithun) who wants to build an aeroplane. He grooms Shivkar seeing the potential but there comes a situation when Shivkar has to choose between love and loyalty. What happens after that forms the rest.The director has come up with an interesting storyline and while the presentation was nice, the narrative was good and slow in parts. The dialogues were alright. The script was great and the screenplay was ambitious and erratic in parts. The background score was very nice but songs can be avoided,only dil e nadan impressed.Cinematography was amazing.Editing was required at key places mostly in 2nd half.Costumes were well designed to suit the backdrop while the art department was very impressive. Ayushmann Khurrana gave a committed performance,it his career best. Pallavi looked beautiful but needs to work a lot on her expressions and body language. Mithun Chakraborty was the best, he is the life of the film,Naman Jain was adorable. Others didn't get much scope.The film came in with a lot of hype owing to the tale of Shivkar Talpade the man who tried to build an aeroplane before the Wright Brothers. However this film seemed more like a fairytale than a biopic. The film has many flaw,but its intention and heart are in the right place.In this, the first half goes around with elements of comedy, some romance and some very interesting moments .The interval bang was okay but the second half failed to take off, it was slow and give the required energy, but ending was good.Overall, this is a film which might have its flaw but needs to be saluted for its noble intentions,because even though the film has so many flaws, one enjoys the film. It evokes patriotism, makes one feel that maybe Shivkar Talpade was the one who flew the first ever plane. So if you want to see bombay like never before beautiful ( dir has a saawriya hangover but thats not a bad thing because 1800s look so beautiful in those types of sets),or ayshuman/mithun with amazing performance and if you want to get a sense of pride for your nation,watch Haawaizaada its worth the ticket price for those reasons.3.25/5* or 6.5/10

If one wants to make a film in any science based invention than he has to do lots of research work and if he won't be able to find much stuff to convert it in film but still wants to make others aware about this fact then there are lots of other mediums, like short film, documentary, handbills, news article except film. Lack of research work is major drawback of this film. First they tried to compensate it with a love track which is also very boring. Love track worsens it further and applies break on already slow movie. There is nothing in the name of story, screenplay, just an information. Dialogues are impressive. What was the inspiration or idea behind making a plane is not there except that an Indian wanted to make it. Execution and obstacles both looks very unreal and childish. Somehow after watching this movie you start doubting that is it fact or fiction as they have presented it in film. Person is genius to think about making a Airplane but not even think a bit about how to control it or land it, trying comes after. Safety measures would have worked or not its another thing but not even thinking about it is not digestible. Premise is Maharashtra but you cant find it neither in language nor in set designs, only speaking few Marathi words do not justify it. Costumes are so bad that the jail dress looks like as night suit. Background score gives feeling that it is not proud of India but dedicated to a particular religion but suddenly took a U turn and started giving feeling of another religion then a tasteless combination of both. Cinematography is good but it is obsessed with pigeon, candle and focus shifting. Performance wise Ayushmann Khurana looks as if he is smiling in sad scenes. Even fantastic actor Mithun Da looks very average, Director has to be blamed for this. Nothing to say about others. Child actor Naman Jain as lead male actor nephew is very good. Music is good as an independent album but does not fit in the film.