Hawaizaada is a visual platter of forced science fiction that is way too low on facts and emotions but high on drama. Watch it if you are a fan of entertainment but not of science fiction.

Hawaizaada gets away with its flight into the mind of the man who dared to fly. This miniature masterpiece leaves us exhilarated and exultant. Thank God for the dreamers, past and present. It is a film with tempestuous ambitions.

The film alternates between the tedious and the excessively outlandish as it negotiates its way through a terrain that is riddled with psychological craters and historical inaccuracies. Unfortunately, despite its many innate strengths, Hawaizaada overreaches and fails to attain stability.

The film’s plot meanders at a head-spinning rate and on more than one occasions, it strikes as too self-conscious. While the background score of the film is as uninspired as its screenplay, the many songs are generic at best. Hawaizaada, in the end, is a flight of fancy that fails to take off.

Hawaizaada works because this story about India's unsung hero needs to find its place. Mithun provides able support. Pallavi is better here than she was in her debut film Besharam. However, you come back a tad disappointed because unlike Shivi who managed to put the wind beneath his wings, the film itself doesn't provide even surface-level thrills.