Hawaa Hawaai

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Hawaa Hawaai
Hawaa Hawaai Poster.jpg
Directed by Amole Gupte
Written byAmole Gupte
Produced byAmole 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 (2014-05-09)
Running time
120 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget110 million [1]
Box office113.6 million [1]

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]

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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

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]

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