10 years of Piku: Shoojit Sircar’s slice-of-life film refuses to age | Bollywood
Shoojit Sircar’s Piku released in the summer of 2015, and clocked a decade this year. I have this distinct memory of watching the film in a theatre, and coming out of it with a strange mixture of joy and sadness. In the theatre, someone had groaned at the last scene and said it out loud that the film ended just like that. Like a question mark was missing somewhere. How did it have all the answers? Piku and Rana simply play badminton, and she tells the house help start work from the next day. Just that. No grand gestures, no emotional outbursts. Over the years, it is this sense of an ending that has always pulled me towards this intelligent little film, a rare story that feels as fresh now as it felt those years ago. As Piku, Deepika Padukone turned in a performance of immense grace and effortless authenticity. The story of Piku and Bhaskor Piku is a father-daughter story. Deepika Padukone‘s titular protagonist is no heroine, neither does she want to be one. …
