[image error]It's shitty but really not!
The first thing that popped into my head as I left the theatre, quite content with the movie experience was that Piku was a sensible film. You can't say that about too many movies nowadays and it is high praise. After a godawful time at Avengers 2 (which in my opinion was just way too much randomness), Piku was an enema - flushing out all the shittiness that Avengers 2 had left inside and instead it made me feel quite fresh. (Pardon all the puns. There're going to be a lot)

Piku is a movie about the titular character played by Deepika Padukone who is leading a good, independent life with her cantankerous hyperchondriac constipated father. They decide to go on a road trip to Kolkata - passing through Banaras on the way. Both of these cities are really close to my heart now - and so the film won me over just with that. To be able to see Assi Ghat on screen and then Howrah Bridge - it was pleasantly nostalgic.

I would have liked to know more about Irrfan Khan's character but it's okay - the film is called Piku after all. And there's enough exposition on his character so as to not feel you dangling. The director Shoojit Sircar is to be commended for that. Too many films either focus way too much on inconsequential characters or sometimes not at all.

In my memory, this is the second Indian road-trip movie that I've seen (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara being the first), and all I can say is that we need more road-trip movies.

Bottom line? The movie is worth it. There's family drama. It's hilarious. There's potty humour. It too is hilarious. There is just the hint of a love story that remains what it is, a sub-plot and doesn't devolve into a full fledged forced romantic pairing. That's what makes it a good movie, a sensible movie. Then again, the funniest moment moment of the movie was a guy pissing - so how sensible could it really be?