1 Line Review: It’s all about love, relationship and of course – shit.
Piku (Deepika) an unmarried, over and above the Indian age of marriage, working bengoli women lives with her hyper father (Amithabh Bachchan) in Delhi. All her dad talks about is his constipation problem and how everything in life is related to digestion. Even on dinner table he is capable of discussion the texture, colour and smell of his shit. Just to check if he is suppering from any disease.
I get easily disgusted by such talk but for some reason watching this movie I did not. I felt it was kind of cute. Well, when Big B is on screen and he is performing even a dead man would get up and clap. So is the case with Piku, the comedy drama movie about love, shit, relationship, a father who wants his medical reports to cry out loud with a list of disease but it does not, a daughter who is willing and wanting to start a relationship and settle down but is not able to as there is no one to take care of her hyper father and she loves him too much to leave him alone. He kind of calls every hour when she is not around to give his shit update. Imagine that! 🙂
Before the release of the movie if you also watched that MyChoice video of Deepika (in collaboration with Vogue magazine) then you will be able to relate all that choice to this movie. You will then realise that its a mere publicity video for Piku and nothing else. The timing was right, it struck the right chords (read sentiments) and chose the very words which the movie also talks about – Sex, sex life, liberation of women, working women and their choices, her choice not to leave her dad and be with him all the time, not marrying for this reason, not marrying coz whenever she tries to get close to someone her dad tells him that she is not a virgin and she is sexually active, just to scare the man away from her baby daughter! Actually, her dad does not want her to go away from him and he is very selfish on this aspect and he admits it.
The movie gets funnier when the taxi services owner Irrfan Khan gets in picture. They go to Kolkatta from Delhi on a roadtrip, (they are contemplating selling their house there) along with a potty chair tied to the top of this SUV, this potty chair even made it to the movie poster, look closely! Irrfan likes her and Piku also starts liking him, it takes time but.
The trip to Kolkatta (via a overnight stop over at Banaras, which is a funny story too) changes things, for good and for bad. The movie is a cute, enjoyable one which you can watch with your full family. Your parents and grand parents will love it. My dad is 70 and I have highly recommended this movie to him.
Watch out for that maid who leaves work as this old man suspects her to be stealing things.
Amitabh’s performance here, takes the cake. Go for it.