Summary

Piku (motion se emoton) is a 2015 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Shoojit Sircar. The film stars are Deepika Padukon as a protagonist Piku who is Bengali architect in Delhi, alongside with Amitabh Bachchan as a Bhashkor Banerjee, 70 years old father having a chronic constipation and Irfan Khan as a Rana Choudhary, an owner of travelling agency. Piku tells a story about hypochondriac father and a willed strong daughter who is forced to endure an emotional roller coaster of a road trip with her father. A father is a health conscious and critical person, who constantly criticizes everyone for the shortcomings. Also, the problem of constipation was at the center throughout the movie. He as a father figure did not wanted his daughter to get married, was justified by his honest and brutal nature. Moreover, the movie highlighted the strong father-daughter relationship throughout.

Analysis

Here the importance is given to a father-daughter relationship in the movie. Piku is a strong independent headed feminist, with a good will and responsibility towards the father. In the movie, she is shown as a strong exasperate working women who tries to balance her professional and personal life. She very well understood the needs of older parents from their children and how calmly and smartly handled things on her side. Also, Amitabh Bachchan talks about how women should not be dependent on anyone by getting into a marriage and should live an independent life with her own choices, alike Piku. Moreover, in the movie we are also exploring the Bengali culture in Kolkata as well as the fast life in Delhi.

Hence, the plot construction is also superbly organized from beginning to end, having a stable consistent speed in story. While climax at the end having a peaceful death by having the best stomach clearance the day before.

Conclusion

It is a wonderful story where Deepika Padukon came up with a great protagonist for all the girls to walk on footsteps of Piku in order to take care and look after their parents in Indian context. Also, it is good to see how nowadays in film industries, the women are coming ahead as a lead role with the liberated stories, such as movies like Piku, Queen, English Vinglish, Tanu Weds Manu Returns etc.