Flashback films: why Piku's silent simplicity still resonates with the public despite the passage from Bollywood to the staging
Flashback films: why Piku's silent simplicity still resonates with the public despite the passage from Bollywood to the staging
SHOOJIT SIRCAR Piku (2015) is nothing more than a retro capsule at the time when Bollywood could move us with restraint and realism. A decade after its release, the film – anchored by deeply human performances and daily conflicts – continues to find a resonance, proving that sometimes the most powerful stories are the most silent.
Piku's silence is his strength
Unlike the offers loaded with Dominant Bollywood spectacles today -where VFX -Heavy actuators, Star Pan -Indiens vehicles and high concept thrillers are competing for eye globes –Piku prosperous in his silence. There are no big gestures, articles or exaggerated confrontations. Instead, the conflicts of the film are in stubborn arguments on the stool, the logistical frustrations of the guardian and the tacit compromises made by women like Piku who juggle with demanding careers and even more demanding parents but not always with a smile!
Piku has a romance but no romance
What makes Piku Endure is his refusal to romanianize reality. Sircar and the writer Juhi Chaturvedi make a story that honors the banal, finding the dignity of domesticity and meaning in the minute. The emotional rhythms are subtle but precise – Bhashkor's eccentricities are both exasperating and engaging, while Piku's thin exhaustion is palpable but never melodramatic. These are characters who do not always say what they feel, but their silences say a lot.
Deepika Padukone offers a representation defining the career of a modern Indian woman merging her independence and her family duty. Amitabh Bachchan, in a role of rare support which does not ask for heroism, is fully based on the neuroticism of Bhashkor with so sincerity that it becomes impossible to hate it, even to its most exasperating. The deceased Irrfan Khan was the glue that maintained the dynamic together, giving a masterclass by reacting rather than to play.
But perhaps the most important, Piku Press a universal truth: the complicated, frustrating and tender links that define family life. He does not offer a closure or catharsis, only the comfort that someone understands. And it is, more than any show, which keeps him alive in our memories.
In an era of noise, Piku murmur. And we always listen. The film is ready to rewrite on May 9, and all its hardcore fans are looking forward to smiling and sobbing with Piku.
