Piku (2015), directed by Shoojit Sircar of Vicky Donor (I really liked it) and Madras Cafe fame, is a moderately entertaining feel good flick, with a glamoured-down Deepika Padukone (she is wow!), now-in-his prime Amitabh Bachchan (hamming & enjoying it) and out-of-sorts Irrfan Khan (romancing the cork) in the leads. The disease of make-believe Bengaliness is not as bad as Sanjay Neela Bhansali's magnum hocus-pocus Devdas, but could have been easily avoided by having the actors' real-life ethnicity right. For example our Bishu Babu (Bishwadeep Chatterjee), who excels in a minor on screen presence and a major off-screen avatar (Sound Design). There is no chemistry or physics on display in the game of restrained romance in motion in this ageing road movie gone home. Kolkata looks suitably sexed up as material for down-to-earth, greying, collapsing, quaintness personified dreams. Juhi Chaturvedi the writer often comes out with interesting situations/sequences/dialogues. But the well-intentioned hard-working performers are often not upto her inventiveness. Or is it the Director ?
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