Friday 8 May 2015

PIKU: A ‘Motion’ picture about ‘Emotions’! [4/5]

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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