"PIKU" Movie Review

Saw PIKU. In a nutshell PIKU is a easy munching movie, fairytale movie, feel good movie. Really we saw, an awe-sum chemistry between Father and daughter, an event-packed journey, heart-touching music, nostalgia about roots and a platform for some finest actors of this country. Hats off to the storyteller to compel the audience to stretch complete attention throughout the movie with a brilliant and crispy script & flawless dialogs. Hats off to the director to be a think tank for such a low budget yet price-worthy art-work. Thanks to him, to allow for some brilliant moments where Dipika & Irfan got ample opportunity to explore on silent acting in front of a vocab man, Mr. Bacchan.

But is it a very 'easy' movie really? There is big difference between 'Simple' and 'easy'. If a movie is easy to understand, that means its well communicated to the audience. But Are all the expressions were very easy munching? Here is starting the real 'Journey' of Piku. In this journey, presence a Bengali Family, few Bengali words is not having much importance. It could have been Tamil or Orissa or Himachal... any family. 

                                                                              But this is a story about few believes, contradictions & thought process of mainly 3 characters. Mr. Bhaskar Banerjee is a Contradictory man. In one way he is always in attachment with his roots & traditions. In opposite, he is very perfectionist about his 'motion' & love nagging to Dr. about his healthy hazards to draw more attention probably! Isn't like a common syndrome in mostly all of our family? Mr. Banerjee, In one way  is Irritatingly conscious about his health & food habit, other way he is always in search of some new thing , like cycle ride, Kachauri, Ball-dance, Party, wine! In one side, he is over-possessive about his only daughter's life-partner choice, other side he is open about her sex preferences. In one way he is orthodox, over perfectionist; in other way he is against male chauvinists, mail domination, supports woman's freedom of thoughts!

                                                                     Piku's character is also flooded with different shades too. She is carried away by her responsibility about father's health. She doesn't like it sometimes, which reflects in her bad mouth to the driver or screaming words to her father, but still she is a responsible daughter. She suppress her emotions for responsibility which reflects in her body language. She is not easy to digest woman, people fear to talk with her & she loves to portray herself in that image. Is it conscious pleasure? Or She hates average same age woman's happy go lucky life! She knows, she cannot plan for a long term relationship, even cannot think about settle for her father's existence, hence she has to be tough! Can she really accept that? Piku can understand her situation, but cannot accept, hence she is always in dilemma.

Irfan's character is like a bridge between Mr. Banerjee & Piku. Irfan sometimes burst into anger about the old man's & her daughter's gestures & queries & in a very straight cut raw way expressed the truth, which are simple. Irfan slaps them through words by showing the reality sometimes. Sometimes he is confused too, by this out-of-box father-daughter relationship. 

                                                                                                                   There are few characters like Mausumi Chatterjee, Raghubir Yadav, who have  brilliantly garnished   the main course of 3  central character. Music is awe-sum. Anupam Roy is a famous Bengali musician in new generation. He is a brilliant Engineer by qualification & intellectual writer by passion & for last few years Bengali new generation music lover's are awe about his thoughtful creations. In “Piku” He is introduced in a  bollywood  movie in music direction, lyrics writing, background score & Mail Singer. In Indian film Industry, this is first time record too. 

                                Piku is movie which never gives are easy soluble answers. Never says about responsibility or nostalgia in a melodramatic frame. Rather, it is director Soojit Sirkar's great vision to depict the frames of this movie so well as, it has become a collage of time, emotions & reality. It has gifted few questions to the audience. In a lucid manner. In a simple story.

Are we searching the answer's in our own life's 'journey'?