On a rainy Sunday, go on a long drive with lawns of lushing greenery on
either side of the road and try to stick your face out of the window of the
speeding car. Shoojit Sircar’s PIKU feels exactly like that moist breeze of
fresh air on your face. But that would be one of the most positively,
imaginatively and pleasingly fabricated statements to describe the film. Let’s
keep it simple and honest! PIKU is an awesome feeling you earn after
‘satisfactorily’ disposing the waste from your digestive tract in the morning,
to make sure the day ahead sees no ‘constipated’ look, mood or temper. PIKU
works like an efficient and the best in business ‘Kayam Churna’ to make
Bollywood flushing out all the frustration with freely-flowing entertainment
all the way.
Mr. Banerjee [Big B himeslf] is nothing but a chaos in himself. More than
being an ageing single father, he’s irritating father to Piku [Deepika
Padukone]- an unmarried in her 30’s trying her hardest to take care the
challenges Mr. Banerjee creates every now and then. Here’s a father who doesn’t
want his daughter to get married as marriages in India don’t do any good to
women. He also can reveal her daughter’s sexual independency to the man he’s
just met surely to ensure no possibilities of wedding bells ahead.
Progressively selfish you can say! These all look petty issues over the ever
not- happening potty issue of Mr. Banerjee! And now, it’s not Piku alone in all
this ‘shit’ discussions happening everywhere from dining table to car-ride and
where not. Rana Chaudhary [Irrfan] accidently joins them on a road-trip as the
responsible owner of the taxi-service, now acting as the committed driver.
Film marks the brilliance in writing [Credit goes to Juhi Chaturvedi]
where humor comes generously from a place everyone feels comfortable being
silent. The hot seat in the lavatory! The toilet-humor has never smelled so
fresh. Picture this when all three main leads start discussing the texture,
color and graphical representation of the waste-disposal act, that too on the
breakfast table! But PIKU is not only about ‘motion’ but ‘emotion’. The
daughter is frustrated with her unsympathetic father but couldn’t hold herself
any longer from dancing when finds the old man enjoying his day after much
chaos. Dialogues wisely shift its tone from argumentative Bengali to expressive
Hindi and conversational English.
Amitabh Bachchan’s outspoken, loud and blunt Bengali father Bhaskar Banerjee
in PIKU is completely opposite to the sophisticated, refined and shy Dr. Bhaskar
Banerjee in Hrishikesh Da’s ANAND. The resembling identify can be coincidental
or a deliberate choice to make some connect between both the filmmakers’ shared
style. The actor blesses the character so much in details you never doubt on
the believability factor. Especially in her de-glam look, Deepika Padukone shines
and surprises you to the last. The anger, annoyance and concern keep on
flashing on her face with supreme ease and sheer confidence. Irrfan charms, and
better than any romantic screen-Gods in Bollywood! He makes you believe in the
audacity of an actor who slips into any given character’s skin smoothly and
leaves you speechless. Yesteryear actress Mausumi Chatterjee does a pleasant
comeback.
At
the end, Shoojit Sircar’s PIKU is a beautiful film that celebrates
dysfunctional Indian families in the most entertaining manner without losing
the undercurrent emotions. We keep shouting on our ageing parents for being
illogical and over-sensitive; PIKU gives us a priceless chance to sit and have
plentiful of good laughs with them! Book your tickets…and for your whole
family! It demands, it deserves! [4/5]
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