Piku
- Director
- Shoojit Sircar
- Studio
- MSM Motion Pictures
- Release Date
- 7 May 2015
- Running Time
- 122 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹42.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹141.00 Cr
Review
Deepika Padukone carries this film on her capable shoulders, and thank God for that, because without her naturalistic performance and impeccable comic timing, "Piku" would've been an insufferable sermon about filial duty masquerading as entertainment. Shoojit Sircar gets the tone right—balancing genuine warmth with sharp humor—and the Delhi setting feels lived-in rather than postcard-pretty. What works brilliantly is the father-daughter dynamic; Amitabh Bachchan's hypochondriac buffoonery could've been grating, but instead it's oddly touching, revealing a man terrified of irrelevance beneath all that bowel-obsession nonsense. The problem? Ranveer Singh's romantic subplot feels grafted on from a different, lesser film entirely. His character lacks dimension, and the love story plods along like a obligatory tax you must pay to get your feel-good family drama certified for multiplexes.
The film's real strength lies in what it doesn't say explicitly—how we cage ourselves and others through love, how a parent's neuroses become their child's inheritance. Sircar lets scenes breathe; there's a road trip that should feel contrived but instead becomes genuinely moving. Yet the screenplay occasionally indulges in preaching rather than showing, and the third act abandons subtlety for convenient resolutions. It's a solid, entertaining film that respects its audience's intelligence more often than not, anchored by Padukone's refusal to make Piku a maudlin martyr. The supporting cast—Jissh
Storyline
So there's this thirty-year-old architect named Piku who lives in Delhi with her seventy-year-old dad, and honestly, living with him is basically a full-time job. Her father is this total hypochondriac who's convinced that everything wrong with him is related to his digestive issues, and he's constantly complaining about it to everyone around him. He goes through maids like crazy—fired five in just two months—and he's absolutely convinced he's dying even though all his medical tests come back totally normal. The poor guy just won't believe the doctors!
What makes it even more complicated is that Piku's dad is dead set against her getting married because he thinks she needs to stay home and take care of him instead. He keeps going on about how marriage is stupid and how her mom wasted her life being a wife, which honestly drives Piku absolutely nuts. She loves her father to pieces, but his weird habits and constant complaining test her patience every single day. Her aunt visits regularly and things get pretty tense, especially since her dad judges everyone's life choices without any filter.
Then there's this taxi business owner named Rana who ends up becoming part of their lives, and things start getting really interesting from there. Piku's business partner actually knows Rana pretty well, so there's this whole connection that starts developing. Between dealing with her father's health obsessions, her frustrating job, and this new person coming into the picture, Piku's life is about to get a whole lot messier and way more complicated than she ever expected.
