Piku Movie Review (Hindi, 2015)

Plot

A middle-class Bengali household has a crabby hypochondriac father who has constant complaints about his bowel behaviors & an architect daughter who he disturbs even when she is in the busiest of her times. After hearing through most of his rants, when the daughter finally lets out her frustration for not letting her marry or go on a vacation, the father agrees for the latter. So off they embark on a vacation to their homeland.How they set-off, what happens through the journey and how they end up is what Piku takes us through

Info

Language:	Hindi
Running Time:	125 min
Rating:	U/A
Release date:	8 May 2015

Cast & Crew

Directed by:	Shoojit Sircar
Produced by:	N.P. Singh Ronnie Lahiri Sneha Rajani
Written by:	Juhi Chaturvedi
Starring:	Amitabh Bachchan Deepika Padukone Irrfan Khan Moushumi Chatterjee Balendra Singh Raghuvir Yadav Jishu Sengupta
Shot by:	Kamaljeet Negi
Editing by:	Chandrashekhar Prajapati
Distributed by:	Yash Raj Films

What’s Hot

The most striking aspect of Piku is obviously the titular character played by Deepika Padukone. Along with Amitabh Bachchan as Bhaskor Banerjee, she has managed to enliven the spirits of a father-daughter relationship that is set in a middle class scenario. Irrfan Khan does a crisp job as Rana Chaudhary, the owner of a cab company. Amitabh Bachchan is a cog in this vital wheel playing a volatile widower carrying the movie on his shoulders
Bhaskor Banerjee’s reasoning for almost everything (including why there should be a definitive need for both a guy and a girl for a marriage) on his characterization is proof enough that Juhi Chaturvedi has managed to piece together a lush story of Bhaskor, his daughter Piku and the likes. There is a hidden beauty in the adamant Bhaskor and the forward-thinking Piku who has “needs” and not luxury
Juhi Chaturvedi presents the movie in the most enjoyable fashion penning not just the story and the screenplay, but also holding forte of the dialogues too. Her dialogues are astonishingly appealing to the most common audience and are thoughtful to the critical earpieces too. Rana’s quip to ‘Are you sure you’re not a Bengali?’ The verdant exchanges between the father & daughter are both insightful as well as stomach-curling.
Anupam Roy and Kamaljeet Negi round it off with a stellar effort in this film by doing their bit to add more sweet to honey. The sitar string section evokes much needed emotion when dialogues go mum and Kamaljeet’s lenswork has not only managed to pan the beauty of Delhi through Kolkata, but also that of a middle class Bengali household.
If you have a crew as good as the ones described above, the one last vital element that pieces everything and channelizes it properly is the direction and Shoojit Sircar has managed to do just that.