Hawaa Hawaai

Hawaa Hawaai
Hawaa Hawaai
Directed by	Amole Gupte
Written by	Amole Gupte
Produced by	Amole Gupte
Starring	Partho Gupte; Saqib Saleem; Pragya Yadav
Cinematography	Amol Gole
Edited by	Deepa Bhatia
Music by	Hitesh Sonik
Production; company	Amole Gupte Cinema
Distributed by	Fox Star Studios
Release date	9 May 2014;
Running time	120 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹110 million
Box office	₹113.6 million

Hawaa Hawaai is a 2014 Indian sports drama film directed by Amole Gupte.^[2]^[3] The film features Partho Gupte and Saqib Saleem. The film is produced by Fox Star Studios. Saleem portrays a roller skating coach in the film.^[4] Gupte also composed and sang one song for the film. Rest of the songs were composed by Hitesh Sonik.^[5] Amol Gole, a long time collaborator with Gupte, worked as the cinematographer. The film released in theatres on 9 May 2014 with good reviews.^[6]

Plot

The plot centres around Arjun Harishchand Waghmare and his dream to skate. The film chronicles his coach Aniket Bhargava and Arjun's journey towards being a champion skater.

After his father's death, Arjun and his family move to Mumbai. Arjun starts to work at a tea stall where he sees some children arrive at night for Lucky (Aniket) Sir. He sees that the children are skating and gets attracted to skating. He finds the skates too expensive so his four friends make a pair of skates out of garbage and call it hawaa hawaai. Aniket gets impressed by Arjun and decides to teach him skating. Arjun comes out to be very talented and Aniket decides to send him to participate in the district-level skating race. On the day of the race, Arjun gets missing. Aniket finds that he is ill and immediately takes him to a hospital where he learns that Arjun has hepatitis. Arjun gets cured and Aniket learns about the difficulties of the poor child about the lack of proper food, sleep, and continuous workload. He realizes that Arjun and his friends have a big heart and they need to be educated. He tries to help them. All his other students come to meet Arjun and bring him nutritional supplements. Aniket decides to send Arjun to the state-level skating race and registers him from his hometown (Yavatmal district). Arjun remembers of his father and wins the race. The film ends showing that Arjun and his friends are admitted in a school and an article is printed in the newspaper about Arjun.

Cast

Partho Gupte as Arjun Harishchand Waghmare / Raju
Saqib Saleem as Aniket Bhargava / Lucky Sir
Pragya Yadav as Pragya Nanda
Makarand Deshpande as Harishchand Waghmare (Arjun's father)
Devraya Gole
Anuj Sachdeva as Aniruddha Bhargava (Aniket's elder brother)
Bugs Bhargava as Mr. Baksh Bhargava, Aniket's father (photo only)
Razak Khan as Garage Mechanic
Neha Joshi as Mrs. Waghmare, Arjun's mother
Rekha Kamat
Sanjay Dadich
Sanjay Tripathi
Dhiraj Utmani as Lucky Sir's skating coach
Hardik Raheja
Srishti Sharma
Arjun Nichani
Manav Hirey
Zufin
Saba Qureshi
Aaliya Qureshi
Solya Qureshi
Suman Arjun Mahaskar
Thirupathi N. Kushnapelli
Salman Chhote Khan
Ashfaque Bismillah Khan
Maaman Memon
Mahesh Kumar
Jaival Shah
Khushi Shah
Sunidhi Chauhan (special appearance)
Riyansh Bhatia

Production

As of 27 August 2013, shooting of the film began in Mumbai.^[7]

Critical reception

Hawaa Hawaai got mostly positive reviews from critics. Subhash K. Jha gave it 4.5 Stars and said that "Hawaa Hawaai is an extraordinary saga of ordinary lives, the kind we often pass by at traffic signals".^[8] Joginder Tuteja called it a "Touching Tale" and rated it 3.5 stars.^[9]