A warm, charming and bittersweet family drama, Piku turns the genre completely on its head.The result is a magnificently original film that delivers a memorably unique movie experience.
Coming from the man who crafted Vicky Donor, a quaint drama around the adventures of a sperm donor, and got away with it, this comedy about constipation is par for the course.What is truly surprising, and impressive, is that director Shoojit Sircar puts just enough spin on this wild whimsy to keep it whirling engagingly over its running time of two hours and a bit.
He is aided, of course, by a remarkable cast of actors who plunge headlong, and with full conviction, into the film.Piku gives the go-by to the usual trappings of Hindi cinema and offers a fresh and deliciously quirky take on a deeply layered father-daughter relationship that borders on the dysfunctional.
Piku is the story of a cranky old Bengali widower Bhaskor Banerji(Amitabh Bachchan) who subjugates his paternal instincts to the health, or the lack of it, of his alimentary canal.
The more trouble that the crotchety gentleman has clearing his bowels, the more difficult he becomes for everyone around him, including a harried maid who he summarily accuses of kleptomania.
Overall a wonderful film that leaves you with smile and thought about marriage and parents problem.