Director- Shoojit Sircar
Wriiten by- Juhi Chaturvedi
The maker of big blockbuster hits like Madras Cafe and Vicky Donor, Shoojit does it again with a touching realistic film Piku. The movie showcases the candid relationship between a father and daughter. Piku stars Amitabh Bachchan(as Bhaskor Banerjee), Deepika Padukone(as Piku), Irrfan Khan, and Moushumi Chatterjee in major roles.
Bhaskor Banerjee, a 70-year-old widower, is an aging father whose only trouble is his chronic constipation. Piku, his 30-year-old daughter who works as an architect, is still unmarried, partly because of being fully devoted looking after her old father and partly because he wants her to stay single and take care of him. The duo stay in the posh colony of CR Park, Delhi.
As Piku’s temper often scorches high due to her father’s irate behavior, she never yells at him. They fight, they have open discussions on everything and Piku ends the day by tucking her father in the bed after his does of medicines. Piku manages her work and home simultaneously with a faint hope of meeting her soul mate but does not say that aloud.
When the question of selling their ancestral house in Kolkata rises, Bhaskor becomes desperate to visit Kolkata; via road. Troubled by Piku’s temperament, the taxi drivers stop coming to her place. Irrfan Khan, who plays the owner of the taxi company turns up to fill in as a driver for the road trip to Kolkata that lasts for 48 hours.
Irrfan gets to know Piku during the road trip and during his stay in Kolkata. He connects well with the doting daughter’s emotions. A perfect cocktail of emotions, humor and drama, Piku touches every chord in your heart. The movie gives a strong message of how we live our lives in solitude ignoring the joys around us. It also shows that it is not difficult to bridge the generation gap, provided people at both the ends make efforts. The emotional relationship will make you laugh and cry at the same time. The climax suddenly make you feel the movie should have continued a little more.
Performance by each one in the film is brilliant. The strong part of the movie is the absence of full fledged songs. Apparently the tracks are played only in the background, focussing completely on the script and space to acting. Maushomi Chattaerjee in her comic role is quite entertaining.
Piku makes a neat, entertaining and great family movie.